EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — The New Jersey Nets are quickly developing their ties to the Russian business market.
New owner Mikhail Prokhorov says the NBA team has entered into a sponsorship agreement with Aeroflot, Russia’s leading air carrier.
The deal was announced less than three weeks after the Nets and vodka company Stolichnaya agreed to a five-year alliance with the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., where the team is scheduled to move in 2012.
The alliance between the Nets and Aeroflot is for the next two years, when the team will play its home game at the Prudential Center in Newark.
