Mikhail D. Prokhorov passed his background check by the NBA and is only a vote away by the owners of the other teams from acquiring 80 percent of the New Jersey Nets and 45 percent of the proposed Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
"There were multiple investigations of him by interested parties and there was nothing that was disclosed that would cause us not to move forward with his application," NBA Commissioner David Stern told The New York Times Thursday.
