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Nets owner Prokhorov no longer cares about the Knicks

LAS VEGAS – When Mikhail Prokhorov first bought the Nets, he immediately vowed to “turn Knick fans into Nets fans.”
After last weekend’s free-agency coup of Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and DeAndre Jordan, the Russian billionaire told The Post that Brooklyn is aiming a lot higher than just the struggling Knicks.

“We don’t set the takeover of New York as our goal,” the 54-year-old Prokhorov said. “We’re about steadily developing a team that, at some point in the not-too-distant future, will get us a championship.”

The Nets should be in the mix to do just that whenever Durant returns from his Achilles surgery, either late this season or next season.