Nets owner Bruce Ratner agreed last week to pay $3 million to the last Atlantic Yards holdout, which should speed up Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov's take over of the team.

Ratner paid Daniel Goldstein $3 million to move out of his Brooklyn apartment by May 7. Delays in the construction of the Barclays Center were costing the developer a reported $6.7 million a month.

"The state's rush to push me out was to serve Prokhorov's interests and the Nets' interests and not the public interest," Goldstein told the New York Daily News.

"It had everything to do with Prokhorov and ownership of Nets. It didn't have anything to do with housing or jobs."