As Duke prepares to take on Butler in tonight’s championship game, the N&O reports that Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov is again offering Mike Krzyzewski “a fortune” to take over as coach and general manager:
Krzyzewski said last summer that he will spend the remainder of his coaching career at Duke. When reports of the Nets’ interest in him surfaced earlier this season, Krzyzewski downplayed them and said he hadn’t been contacted by the team or its owner.
“The guy’s Russian, right?” Krzyzewski said Feb. 13. “Do you think he’d hire a Polish guy? Really?”
He was asked if a Polish guy would go work for a Russian guy.
“No one’s contacted me, and if they do, ‘Nyet’ would be easy for me to say,” Krzyzewski said.
As for tonight’s game, I’m just wondering how many brand-new Butler fans there are here in North Carolina. I’m over my Duke hatred, but more than a few I talk to haven’t let it go.
But a Bulldog victory’s the better story, eh?
