It's not the first time a sports team owner -- or a businessman -- admitted that he was unprepared for the pressures of New York, but as Mikhail Prokhorov admitted Monday, he did too.
That and a vain (?) hope for championship contention next season were the high points of a press conference at Barclays Center. Here are some tweeted comments.
"I’m sure, for the next season, we’ll be, I hope, a championship contender," Mikhail Prokhorov said of his 10-27 Nets.
— Andrew Keh (@andrewkeh) January 11, 2016
Prokhorov: "Our prior approach got us to reach the playoffs 3 years in a row but we failed to go further.