As an NBA owner, Mikhail Prokhorov has proven that he's willing to spend every dime he has in order to make his team a championship contender. Whether or not this method will work is anyone's guess but we can all agree he's added a TON of talent (washed up or not) to his Nets team.
Now according to Yahoo Sports and Fox Sports, several NBA owners and GMs are accusing Prokhorov of foul play. They're saying that they think he is doing some kind of secret deals, especially after signing Andrei Kirilenko for just over 3 million when he was offered 10 million by the Timberwolves.
Now I did think it was a bit odd that when the trade with Jason Terry, Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce came through that no one ever mentioned how much money the players would be making or what their new contracts would be like, as is typical for any type of blockbuster deal.
Prokhorov has also been linked several times to the Russian mafia throughout his career and has been pretty candid about his use of bribery in past business dealings.
Hmmm...what are your thoughts?
It would not suprise me.
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