Gangstas
playing in the NBA?
A Russian billionaire, an amateur basketball player the size of an N.B.A. power forward, signed a tentative $200 million deal Wednesday that would make him the principal owner of the New Jersey Nets and an investor in the team’s new home, an arena planned for Brooklyn.Mikhail D. Prokhorov, the richest man in Russia and president of Onexim Group, would become the first foreign owner of an N.B.A. team who is not Canadian. Prokhorov, who once owned a stake in the CSKA Moscow basketball team, wrote on his blog Tuesday that he intended to improve Russian basketball by using N.B.A. training methods and sending Russian coaches to the United States for internships.
How about mobsters OWNING an NBA team?
I'm not saying the new Nets owner is tied to the mob, but a lot of the Russian rich are tied into criminal activities.
I hope the vetting process by the NBA is better than that of the Obama administration.
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