photo from russiablog.org
Seriously? According to ESPN, Russian nickel tycoon Mikhail Prokhorov, has put in a whopping $700 million bid to purchase the New Jersey Nets, a move that would make the Nets the first NBA franchise to have an owner who doesn’t operate in the good ol’ US of A.
“For our Onexim group the realization of this very lucrative business project, whose participation was made possible by the world crisis [never in history have foreigners owned an NBA club], is another interesting sports development,” Prokhorov wrote today on his blog, probably in Russian (and his blog is probably way more successful than 6NBlog).
So what do we think this move would mean for the Nets? Well first off, expect the Nets to move quickly towards a trade for Andrei Kirilenko, as well as to add any other Russian player they can find. Secondly, expect the Nets’ players to increase in size and stamina suspiciously quick, to leave much of the talking during press conferences to their lovely, long-legged, short-haired blonde wives, and to beat Carl Weathers to death in a preseason goodwill game after Weathers taunts them in an extravagant entrance to the arena on a huge float featuring a performance by James Brown’s corpse.
And then, expect Sylvester Stallone to fly to Moscow and beat them at their own game after training in an old abandoned farm house with no heat or running water.
