The United States is having a lot of problems with Russia.
It apparently helped elect as American president a narcissistic, racist, misogynist pathological liar. But perhaps worse, it may have ruined the New Jersey/Brooklyn Nets.
Well, not exactly the country, but one of its most prominent citizens, oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov (oligarch sounds so much more mysterious and wealthy). He is the man who purchased the then-New Jersey Nets in 2010 and immediately promised to win a title —and become the dominant New York basketball team — within five years.