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September 20, 2010
Did Team Prokhorov Once Want an NBA Franchise in Moscow?
NetsDaily
The Nets fan blog reports that Mikhail Prokhorov had hoped to start the wheels turning on a Moscow-based NBA franchise back in 2006.
When the NBA announced it was going to open a Russian office--and word got out that the Nets will hold an open practice in Moscow, Prokhorov advisor Sergey Kushchenko told Russian media that the NBA has long wanted to do business in Russia, even before Mikhail Prokhorov bought the Nets.
He would know. Kushchenko is the man who tried to put the earlier deal together. It's an interesting bit of NBA history, one that indicates that the Nets were Prokhorov's Plan "B". Plan "A" was making CSKA Moscow a global brand and maybe even an NBA franchise!
Posted by eric at September 20, 2010 9:31 AM