Mikhail Prokhorov has said he wants the Nets to win a championship by 2015. He's also said he wants his original $223 million investment in the team and Barclays Center to be worth a billion dollars that same year. The first goal seems fleeting.
Peace Players International is a charity whose aim is using sport to bring together children from different ethnic and religious groups in areas of conflict. Irina Pavlova sits on the group's board of directors. She spoke to Huff Post about the work.
On Saturday, Mikhail Prokhorov confirmed he'll run in Moscow city council elections. Sunday, he told a candidates forum they should understand Russia is "becoming more like the USSR." In short, he's becoming more politically active again.
Bob Raissman of the Daily News reports that P.J. Carlesimo, late of the Nets, will be joining ESPN soon to handle studio analysis for the rest of the NBA playoffs.
Talk of competition between MSG and Barclays Center has always been dismissed diplomatically by the two sides. MSG's mantra is, "The Garden is the Garden," while Barclays officials say there's plenty of room in the region for both. Not anymore.
Sources inside the Nets say that there is virtually no chance now that Phil Jackson will join the team in an executive capacity, that there was in fact limited discussion of him becoming a vice president for basketball operations or similar position.
Phil Jackson may have sent signals he's not interested in coaching and that he prefers a "visionary" role to that of executive but none of that is the Nets from making him their first choice. "The only one is Phil right now," said a team insider.
In a good give-and-take with Ryan Ruocco and Stephen A. Smith Monday, Billy King said that contrary to reports, the next coach of the Brooklyn Nets does not have to be a big name, that some of the best coaches in the league weren't marquee names.
P.J. Carlesimo is making the rounds on New York radio Monday. He admitted to Tim Brando of CBS Sports that the Nets loss to the Bulls was not the determining factor in his release and hinted to Colin Cowherd that player development was an issue.
Mikhail Prokhorov was in Brooklyn to attend Nets playoff games vs. Chicago, but at the same time, his Mikhail Prokhorov Fund, was pushing culture, promoting the fund's three-year long cultural exchange with the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
