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August 21, 2012
Nets Owner Mikhail Prokhorov Takes Dig At Knicks’ ‘Little Man’ James Dolan
CBS New York
The Brooklyn Nets did all they could this offseason to try and give the Knicks a run for their money in the Big Apple battleground.
With stars on both sides, the rivalry is sure to entertain on the court.
Off it? Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov has that covered.
In a recently published New York Magazine article, writer Will Leitch said the 6-foot-8 Russian billionaire referred to Knicks owner James Dolan as “that little man.”
...“It’s clear that the Nets did not move to Brooklyn to be Pepsi to Jim Dolan’s Coke,” wrote Leitch. “They want to be Veuve Clicquot.”
NoLandGrab: We think Leitch means they want to be Armand de Brignac.
Related coverage...
ProBasketballTalk [NBCSports.com], Prokhorov refers to James Dolan as “the little man”
(Prokhorov told me back in December that he plans on attending a quarter of the regular-season games and “all the playoff ones.” He also made sure that I heard him call Dolan “that little man.”)
Posted by eric at August 21, 2012 11:07 AM