LeBron to the Nets, to Russia with love
September 26, 2009 by James Edwards
Filed under Cleveland Cavaliers, LeBron James, NBA Basketball, New Jersey Nets
NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
In case you have been living in a cave all week, the richest man in Russia just dumped 700 million dollars into the New Jersey Nets. His name is Mikhail Prokhorov and he stands at the same eye level as LeBron James only he is much much richer.
For those of you that root for LeBron to stay in Cleveland, it is time to wake up and smell the money. This guy likes to party and thinks nothing of jetting all over the world to have a good time and surrounds himself with beautiful women.
There are now 9.5 billion reasons for LeBron to consider playing for the New Jersey Nets and they are all good ones. This guy likes to win and is not afraid to spend tons of dough to get it done. In Russia, he always hired the best coach and had the highest payroll, sometimes even competing in size with NBA teams.
LeBron James may soon be jetting all over the world
Will LeBron consider playing for him? All you have to do is meet him and see the charisma he shows to realize he knows what he is doing.
Whatever happens, Prokhorov won’t be running the Nets like Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. Prokhorov likes to hang with the players, but not so much in the locker room and huddles. He likes it in a social way, and so do they. It’s like running with James Bond, jets on a moment’s notice to the most exotic locations in the world. That’s how he lives, and that’s how they’ll roll. He can offer a superstar lifestyle that few would dare try in the public eye.
The fact there are whispers about him would give him street cred with a lot of players. Mostly, players see owners as dopes to be stroked, but invading Brooklyn with the Russian boss and a stocked, bloated payroll could be a blast.
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The whole deal seems like a slap in the face to other owners, but the amount of money is so great that the league will put up with it and other owners will now start their search for rich foreign basketball owners.
Oh, and when the team moves to Brooklyn, what do we call them? The Brooklyn Nets?
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