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October 27, 2010
Nets’ Top Attraction May Be Prokhorov
The New York Times
by Ken Belson
More hard-hitting coverage of Mikhail Prokhorov from The New York Times.
The Knicks have had a lot of reason to cheer Timofey Mozgov, their new Russian center who had an impressive preseason and figures to play a prominent role on the team this season.
But Mozgov is not the only tall Russian involved in basketball around New York. Fans will likely see a lot of Mikhail D. Prokhorov, the new owner of the Nets, who has promised to turn last season’s 12-win team into a championship-winning club.
Prokhorov lives in Moscow, but plans to attend about a quarter of the Nets’ home games at the Prudential Center in Newark this season. That includes the first three games, against the Pistons on Wednesday, the Kings on Friday and LeBron James and the Miami Heat on Sunday.
Prokhorov will not sit courtside like Mark Cuban in Dallas. Instead, he will keep to his owner’s box, where he can survey his team, which cost him $200 million and includes a 45 percent stake in the Barclays Center, the Nets’ new home in Brooklyn.
Posted by eric at October 27, 2010 12:19 PM