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June 7, 2010
Jay-Z not wooing LeBron James to Nets
Yahoo! Sports
by Mark J. Miller
Jay-Z is a minority owner of the New Jersey Nets, a team on the undercard for the battle for LeBron James(notes) this summer. The Nets are considered a long shot to land James in this summer filled with big-name, big-dollar NBA free agents, but Jay-Z tells Rolling Stone that he won't get involved in trying to woo his friend to his team, according to the New York Daily News.
"That's his decision," he told the magazine. "We're friends - we've still gotta hang out! I don't want to convince somebody to do something, then have to see him and say, 'Uh, yeah, we're 4-30 ...sorry.'"
Such confidence in his team! Of course, the real reason Jay won't get involved in the recruiting effort may be that the big boss told him "nyet."
Jay-Z is leaving all recruiting to the new owner, Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, who first met with the hip-hop exec at the Manhattan Four Seasons. "I'd been staying there for 10 years, and I always thought I was at the top level," Jay-Z told the magazine. "But when I met Prokhorov, they took me up to this extra, extra room that I had never even heard of before. Now there's something else to shoot for. There's always an extra level you don't know about."
NoLandGrab: You got that right, Hov, especially when you've only been brought in for "street cred."
Posted by eric at June 7, 2010 9:55 AM