'Not Exactly A Bold-Faced Name' Gets Exclusive With New Nets Owner

File this one under ‘bizarre’: when new New Jersey Nets owner, Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov was in town this week, he gave exactly two exclusive interviews. One to Mike Francesa of WFAN. The other to a 28-year-old who graduated from Columbia School of Journalism three days ago.

He is, as the NY Observer reports, “not exactly a bold-faced name.”

Vinnie Rotondaro told the Observer that “I was like man, what is this all about?”

Mr. Rotondaro said that he received an email about three weeks ago.

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