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April 11, 2012
Owner Says the Nets and a New Arena Remain Hard-Hat Zones
The New York Times
by Richard Sandomir
Jim Dolan must wish he had Mikhail Prokhorov's PR people.
Mikhail D. Prokhorov said he could not discuss contract talks with Deron Williams.
“For the time being, it’s top secret,” Prokhorov, the Nets’ majority owner, said Tuesday during a news conference inside the unfinished Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Why the omertà about the point guard so essential to the team’s future?
“N.B.A. rules prohibit me from comment on a potential contract,” he said. “Please wait for summer.”
When reminded by a reporter that he is not prohibited from discussing his own free agent, he quickly shed his self-imposed gag order.
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Posted by eric at April 11, 2012 1:12 PM