Rich Russian is buying an american team
Billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov
Countries most avid sports owner
6′ 8″ addicted to sports.
Spends 2 hours working out every day!

Loves sports and challenges

Buying the New Jersey Nets
80% of NBA team that is the worse team in the league. It is a global sport.

Owns media empire, gold company, house, fitness center
small yacht
Doesn’t know where the yacht is.
Has guns.
Has friends everywhere.
Russia’s celebrities

Food is his favorite pass-time.

Big risk taker.

Russian Private SOHO club.

Poker tube.
How did he make his money.
Richest man in Russia.
Doesn’t know how much money he has.
$17 billion?

A side effort.

Molded from former ashes.
Political connections
International finance
was one of the few who knew about free markets and the free enterprise system,
Expertise.
Vladimir potanen
To open banks, job could get him killed.
contract killers
gangs
wild west territtory with no sherriff

At 30 he was already a billionaire

Won the lottery
insiders
Norelse Nickel/Mining
Paid a few hundred million dollars

It was a slam dunk

Sold at the right time.

Flew a group of friends in a private plan for a vacation. French police put him in jail.

Sold percentage for $10 billion!!!

Wishes he was not so tall, compared to

Deal with Nets to be completed in the next few months.
Could move the Nets to the Brooklyn. Wants to turn the worse team in the league and make them the best!