Brooklyn Nets Owner Threatens To Bring Club Under Russian Jurisdiction

[okaawhatever]

MOSCOW, March 24 (Reuters) - A Russian billionaire said on Monday he planned to relocate his company that runs the Brooklyn Nets basketball team to Russia in keeping with the Kremlin's call on Russian businessmen to repatriate their assets to help combat new U.S. sanctions.

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Mikhail Prokhorov, owner of the Brooklyn Nets, had said before that he planned to relocate the company that runs the NBA team to Russia, but his comments to reporters in the Kremlin underlined his support for Putin.

"A Russian company will own the basketball club," Prokhorov said before receiving a medal for services to Russia along with other national sports officials.

"This (move) does not violate any NBA (U.S. National Basketball Association) rules and I will bring it (under Russian jurisdiction) in accordance with Russian law."

Prokhorov himself has not been hit by Western sanctions and, although he ran against Putin in the 2012 presidential election, he has underlined his loyalty to the president.

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[pinboy3niner]

1. How long before people call them the Nyets?

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Da

[William769]

7. ROFLMGAO!!!

[rocktivity]

8. DUzy!!!

rocktivity

[cthulu2016]

9. very good

[Cha]

12. Good one, pinboy!

[Javaman]

13. You win the internet today. nt

[Gravitycollapse]

2. I feel like you can't legally relocate an NBA team outside the country without NBA consent.

I don't have specific law in front of me but that just doesn't seem correct.

[okaawhatever]

4. I don't think he's trying to move the team, as in the players, to Russia just the corporation and

money. It started because he was running for office in Russia. I don't know what the deal is now, especially if he supports Putin.

[FarCenter]

3. Brooklyn -- home of "Little Odessa"

[TomClash]

6. Wtf?

What do you mean?

[sir pball]

10. The Brighton Beach neighborhood of Brooklyn is very heavily Russian

And if I remember right, a lot of said Russians have roots in Odessa specifically. One of those strange immigration stories, back from when we were a more welcoming country.

Me, I like to go to the beach down there on a hot summer weekend (closer than the Rockaways, cleaner than Coney Island), spend the day playing frisbee, swimming and drinking beer, then go to a random restaurant for an intensely heavy, meaty, properly Eastern European dinner.

[OriginalGeek]

11. Not to derail things

but that sounds like a great effin day.

[sir pball]

14. Now if it would only warm up..

The water's like liquid helium until August, but as long as I can sit around in my shorts, yeah, it's about the best effin time you can have in the City.

[OriginalGeek]

18. I've got plenty of warm and plenty of shore

but I lack an Eastern European neighborhood. I may just have to stop at Total Wine and Spirits and pick up some good Czech beer and make the rest my own self.

Hope your days get warm enough soon!

[FarCenter]

15. If was probably a Jewish community, and then received a lot of Jewish Russian emigrants.

Just before the fall of the USSR, a lot of Russian Jews got permission to emigrate to Israel. But when they went from Odessa to Tel Aviv via Vienna, the didn't turn left -- they continued straight to NYC.

Later, more Russians of all types arrived.

[sir pball]

16. I recall hearing the great majority of Holocaust survivors in NYC are in that 'hood

I don't have time to fact-check right now, but that would make a lot of sense.

[Blue_Tires]

17. I can't imagine this flying with the commish or other owners

there may not be an "official" rule against it, but I'm guessing the league is going to have a chat with him about it...