Prokhorov Will See Different Nets Team in London Than in Brooklyn Mikhail D. Prokhorov, the Nets" owner, is planning to attend the team's game against the Atlanta Hawks next Thursday at O2 Arena in London, a club spokesman said. It will be the first time Prokhorov has attended a Nets game since Nov. 1, when he watched his team's home opener against the Miami Heat at Barclays Center. The Nets won that game, a misleading prelude given how the season has played out. The Nets have a 14-21 record, and the Heat are 27-9 after Thursday's loss to the Knicks. As the teams prepared to meet again Friday night, that first win, from the Nets" standpoint, must have felt like a distant memory. The Nets were roiled by injuries and slumped until the new year, when they built a four-game winning streak. The team Prokhorov saw two months ago, then, is not the same one he will see next week. "It's a long time ago," Coach Jason Kidd said of the opener. Prokhorov, a billionaire Russian businessman and politician, has not maintained a presence around the club this season. He has representatives and associates who attend to team business in Brooklyn, and he is far removed from the archetype of the ever-present American sports owner. Still, his financial investment in the team has been large, although it has yielded mixed results. The money has certainly not guaranteed his players" health. Kidd said Thursday afternoon that point guard Deron Williams, who received cortisone injections and platelet-rich plasma treatment around his ankle joints this week, would not play on Friday or Saturday nights. Kidd said Williams's condition would be re-evaluated over the weekend, at which point the club will decide whether he will travel to London. The Nets on Thursday tried to focus on the importance of their game against the Heat. Andray Blatche predicted the arena would have a playoff atmosphere. But nearly everyone agreed the coming game had little connection to the teams" first meeting. "Obviously, we're a different team," Joe Johnson said, "and we're trying to find our niche, so to speak, and take care of home court. This is definitely a big game for us. Players for the Nets and the Heat will wear promotional uniforms on Friday night bearing nicknames and initials on the back rather than the usual last names. Paul Pierce, for example, will have "Truth" on his jersey, while Andrei Kirilenko will wear his name written in Cyrillic. It is the first time the league has done an organized, nickname jersey initiative. The two teams will wear the uniforms the next two times they meet, March 12 and April 8. The Heat will also wear them during their Jan. 21 game against the Boston Celtics.