Because he’s Russian, you know? And because he’s alledgedly corrupt (insofar as prostitution is really “wrong”). Anyway, the jokes can go in any number of directions, and a few writers have had some fun with this news on twitter today.
From Russia with Endless Comedic Potential
In no particular order...
@Josh_Levin: In USA, Nets play basketball. In Soviet Russia, nets drag away dissidents killed by poison-tipped umbrellas. #yakovhoops
@Marcel_Mutoni: Great. Just what New Jersey needed more of: Vodka. #therussiansarecoming
@JakeAppleman: Does this mean that Jay-Z is a minority owner of that thing on Gorbachev's head? #whatdennismillerwouldhavesaid
@Marcel_Mutoni: RT @kevinwilson16: Nets' slogan for 2009-10: If he dies, he dies.
@Unsilent: It's only a matter of time before Roman Abramovich makes the Knicks an offer they can't refuse. .
@Marcel_Mutoni: The writing on the New Jersey Nets' jerseys next season: Нью-Джерси Нетс
@Josh_Levin: Russia's richest man purchases controlling interest in Josh Boone: http://bit.ly/2oxXJ0
@Truth_About_It: Heard that LeBron James bought one of those Russian hats with a Yankees logo on it.
@Jeskeets: So wait, with a Russian billionaire now in control, we can go ahead and pencil in the Nets w/ the No. 1 draft pick next summer, right?
@Marcel_Mutoni: Good thing Vince Carter left Jersey. He would've heard from the Gulag after a string of lazy fadeaways in early November.
@Jeskeets: I can't wait for Prokhorov to trade Devin Harris, Brook Lopez and Courtney Lee for Kirilenko.
Incidentally, last night at a baseball game I met the son of the late, great Shirley Povich of the Washington Post. Among other things, we talked about great sportswriting. And I just created a post comprised entirely of tweets...
Micro-blogging!
/Ducks lightning bolt from W.C. Heinz.
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