In your face!

Upstart New Jersey Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov has penetrated New York’s shabby defense with a towering 225-foot mural touting his team just yards from where the Knicks hold court.

Prokhorov teams up with hip-hop mogul Jay-Z on a mural proclaiming “The blueprint for greatness.” It looms above Madison Square Garden on Eighth Avenue and 34th Street with the heading “the blueprint for greatness” and a Nets logo that’s bigger than a backboard.

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The “blueprint for greatness” slogan is a takeoff of Jay-Z’s “Blueprint” album series.

The mural will be finished just in time for the midnight beginning of free agency, kicking off the LeBron James sweepstakes.