Rafael Araujo has officially signed a one-year deal with the Russian Superleague team Spartak St. Petersburg - the same team with which a 15-year-old Andrei Kirilenko once played his first professional game - and will put his NBA career on hold three years after he was drafted out of Brigham Young.

The Jazz were willing to invite Araujo to training camp on a non-guaranteed contract but encouraged him to explore options in Europe. With the signing of second-round pick Kyrylo Fesenko, though, Araujo no longer was in the plans as the No. 3 center.

"It's going to be a year-by-year thing,'' Ohanian said. "If next summer comes along and there's a [NBA] team that's looking for a guy like him and to use him, I'm sure he'd be open to it."

Via Salt Lake Tribune

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