"The Most Interesting Man in the World"

The New York Times published this feature story on Mikhail D. Prokhorov, future owner and savior of the Nets.

Mikhail D. Prokhorov has a net worth of $17.8 billion, enough to buy every team in the National Basketball Association, stock them with All-Stars and take them on a world tour aboard his 200-foot yacht.

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Prokhorov is relatively young, wealthy, charming, tall, athletic and adventurous, a modern-day renaissance man with an air of cold war mystique. He could pass for a Bond villain, or a double agent in a Tom Clancy novel. The NetsDaily blog has dubbed him “the Most Interesting Man in the World,” after the suave fellow in the beer commercials.

His arrival is inspiring hope and wonder, a timely distraction from the Nets’ catastrophic 70-loss season.

If Prokhorov can snag LeBron this free agency... well, that would be a hell of a distraction.