From Russia with Endless Comedic Potential

Because he's Russian, you know? And because he's alledgedly corrupt (insofar as prostitution is really "wrong"). Anyway, the jokes can go in any number of directions, and a few writers have had some fun with this news on twitter today.

In no particular order...

@Jeskeets: This took two minutes too long, tweeps. RT @ashleydc: I hear in Russia, letter of intent signs you.

@Josh_Levin: In USA, Nets play basketball. In Soviet Russia, nets drag away dissidents killed by poison-tipped umbrellas. #yakovhoops

@Marcel_Mutoni: Great. Just what New Jersey needed more of: Vodka. #therussiansarecoming

@JakeAppleman: Does this mean that Jay-Z is a minority owner of that thing on Gorbachev's head? #whatdennismillerwouldhavesaid

@Marcel_Mutoni: RT @kevinwilson16: Nets' slogan for 2009-10: If he dies, he dies.

@Unsilent: It's only a matter of time before Roman Abramovich makes the Knicks an offer they can't refuse. .

@Marcel_Mutoni: The writing on the New Jersey Nets' jerseys next season: Нью-Джерси Нетс

@Josh_Levin: Russia's richest man purchases controlling interest in Josh Boone: http://bit.ly/2oxXJ0

@Truth_About_It: Heard that LeBron James bought one of those Russian hats with a Yankees logo on it.

@Jeskeets: So wait, with a Russian billionaire now in control, we can go ahead and pencil in the Nets w/ the No. 1 draft pick next summer, right?

@Marcel_Mutoni: Good thing Vince Carter left Jersey. He would've heard from the Gulag after a string of lazy fadeaways in early November.

@Jeskeets: I can't wait for Prokhorov to trade Devin Harris, Brook Lopez and Courtney Lee for Kirilenko.

Incidentally, last night at a baseball game I met the son of the late, great Shirley Povich of the Washington Post. Among other things, we talked about great sportswriting. And I just created a post comprised entirely of tweets...

Micro-blogging!

/Ducks lightning bolt from W.C. Heinz.