AKA the super rich Russian dude who's buying the Nyets.

Pretty interesting stuff on how he made his fortune (which involves bringing 8 Russian models with him on vacation and being arrested France) and the Nyets.

Definitely worth watching.

Well apparently I couldn't successfully embed this video so here's the link:

www.cbs.com/primetime/60_minutes/video/?...s=homepage&play=true

Awesome, thanks... I was wanting to watch this!

And I don't think you can embed non-Youtube videos in forum posts for some reason. It's not full HTML in the forums?

College Wolf wrote:
Yea I guess not. I tried using the "Code" button on the Boardcode and putting the code inside that but it just brought me to an Access Forbidden page.

Oh well, not like it matters anways.

This dude is such a megastud.

He had me at, "Frankly speaking, I like women."

It's too bad he didn't do a little more research on the NBA to find out that turning the Timberwolves around would actually be much more of a challenge than turning the Nets around. You want a challenge Mr. Prokhorov? Try luring free agents to Minnesota.

The thought of him partying with Pech gave me the biggest smile. That would be the best reality show of all time, no contest.

YWG wrote:
Yep. Too bad Glen Taylor didn't sell the Wolves to him...

Here's a big long article I found about Prokhorov:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601079&sid=alNS5jabvpPs

I agree it would be so awesome to have him as our owner. He's so cool and calculated.

"I like stress, it gives me advantage" or whatever he said about that
"I like women"

He doesn't even use a computer.

I don't even care if he really does have ties to the Russian Mob. In fact, that would make it even cooler!

roundhouse wrote:
Yeah, no doubt. This dude is awesome. Read that article I posted. It's really long, but gives a great snapshot of his life and how he got where he is...

Woah that was a really good article you linked to. Howl.

I just think it's so awesome that he doesn't have a cellphone and says he's only looked at the internet 3 times.

This guy is Nostradamus-like in his ability to make business decisions and his long-term vision.

With Prokhorov and JayZ as owners and a new stadium in Brooklyn, it'd be sweet to be a Nets fans in the next couple of years.

Hahahaha he's so awesome:

http://www.slamdumb.com/a145.php

He's going to rename the Nets?

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Mikhail-Prokhorov-might-rename-the-New-Jersey-Ne?urn=nba,242483


Isn't the answer simple... ?

"The New Jersey Nyets"

Bwaha I love this guy.

The Nets is kind of a stupid name but I think they should keep it because it has a lot of history.

The Bobcats should definitely change their name. The sooner the better.

roundhouse wrote:
They should change to the Mikecats.

Whew I just got to this. It should be very interesting how he handles the Nets. His removal from the US media will be a major plus. He seems like more of a 5 year plan guy.

Could David Stern be more smug in that video? Everytime he speaks I feel like he is a father explaining where babies come from to a 4 year old. We commoners have no idea about anything so he'll just tell us what we can handle.

His ~"only in America would we ask is the owner a foreigner" remark is such bs. As if the rest of the world is completely tolerant and loving of all walks of life, but we Americans are a bunch of xenophobes.

As a case in point the English people HATED when the Glazers bought Manchester United, and I haven't heard one comment on Prokhorov but "he is a bad ass".