The NBA has truly gone global. Russian tycoon Mikhail Prokhorov reached an agreement Wednesday to buy 80 percent of the financially strapped New ***** Nets and nearly half of a project to build a new arena in Brooklyn. The only thing that stands in the way is a nyet from the league's board of governors, and that doesn't seem likely with NBA commissioner David Stern already giving the deal...

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Well, it's nice to know that the Russia's richest man Mikhail Prokhorov agrees to buy Nets. I know that he can get more benefits with regards to his decision. Prokhorov is currently the richest man in Russia and the 40th richest man in the world according to the 2009 Forbes list with an estimated fortune of $9.5 billion.

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I think it would be great for European integration in the NBA league. It would be wonderful if at least several Euroleague teams played in a few years the NBA, but it is certainly possible