With season over, and 10th straight Russian championship won, Andrei Vatutin is the leading candidate to join Mikhail Prokhorov's front office. Already, Russian sports writers are asking who will replace him as president of CSKA Moscow.
Fixing scandal engulfs Russian basketball. Audio tape of league president pressing refs surfaces on internet. Mikhail Prokhorov's old team, CSKA, not involved but rival coach implies general favoritism toward league's "most powerful club".
Mikhail Prokhorov to tap Andrei Vatutin, president of CSKA Moscow, his old Euroleague team, as an assistant general manager. Vatutin would become the second European assistant GM after Toronto's Maurizio Gherardini.
Kiki Vandeweghe was hired to dump salary, to be the Nets hatchet man. Now, like so many hatchet men, he becomes the scape goat of an unpleasant process. With 87 days left on his contract--and Mikhail Prokhorov looking to add a Russian exec to Rod Thorn's staff, he has to start thinking of his next stop.
Will Nets go international in rebuilding front office? Mikhail Prokhorov has already said he intends to place a young savvy Russian upfront. Now comes word via Mitch Lawrence that Prokhorov is looking to raid the Rockets and bring in Arturas Karnisovas, former Seton Hall great.
Mikhail Prokhorov became principal owner of the Nets on May 12, 2010. Since, he has developed Team Prokhorov, a disparate group of Europeans and Americans devoted to the team's success.
