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April 1, 2010
Russian's wealth will be overall Nets gain
Irish Times
by George Kimball
The Irish Times assesses the New Jersey Nets' past, present and future (not an April Fools joke).
The scenario posed by a dodgy Russian zillionaire acquiring a moribund franchise and attempting to buy his way to a championship is, of course, a more familiar tale across the ocean than in the US. And while Prokhorov’s name has been familiar to basketball fans in both Brooklyn and New Jersey since September (when he provisionally acquired an 80 per cent stake in the Nets contingent on his relocating the franchise from the latter to the former), it is safe to say until the 60 Minutes episode aired, most Americans probably thought Prokhorov was the guy who wrote Peter and the Wolf.
...Just how thorough this [NBA] “investigation” will be remains to be learned, but since some of the people doing the investigating have fairly checkered pasts of their own, the best guess is: Not Very. Put it this way: neither [NBA Commissioner David] Stern nor any of Prokhorov’s prospective brethren owners seemed disturbed in the least by the revelations of Sunday’s 60 Minutes episode.
Posted by eric at April 1, 2010 10:52 AM