Kalmanovic, 60, had invested millions of dollars in the Spartak, a women’s professional basketball team that won the EuroLeague Women title the last three seasons. He hired stars of the Women’s National Basketball Assn., including Tina Thompson, Diana Taurasi and Sue Bird, to play for his team during the American league’s off-season, paying them as much as 10 times their U.S. salary. New York Liberty center Janel McCarville, currently on the Spartak team, responded to the news on Twitter: ” … This drama got me shook, hoping to go to bed, wake up n have it all be a dream…” During the 1990s, Kalmanovic organized tours in Russia of such artists as Jackson, Liza Minnelli and Jose Carreras, according to the Interfax news service.