Brooklyn Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov spoke to the media on Monday (11th January) - a day after firing coach Lionel Hollins and reassigning general manager Billy King.

SOUNDBITE: (English) Mikhail Prokhorov, Brooklyn Nets owner:

"Frankly speaking, I deserve championship now much more than six years ago. And, I think we have been really bold and did our best in order to reach championship. And I still believe with some luck, our results might have been more promising. But I'll do my best to make us a championship team. And if we compare it to now and six years ago, we have state of the art arena in New York. We'll have fascinating training facilities, and we'll open it I think together next month. We'll have a D-League team. So we'll big amount of money under the cap next season. So we have everything the best. And I'm really optimistic and now I'm 100 per cent owner of the team and the arena, and I'm very committed to be championship and I'm all in."