Brooklyn’s former and current teams are close to teaming up.
Guggenheim Sports and Entertainment, which owns the LA Dodgers, is in talks with the Brooklyn Nets about a “combination of assets.”
The proposed deal would include both the Nets and the 2-year-old Barclays Center, according to a report.
Guggenheim, which bought the Dodgers in March 2012 for $2.15 billion, the highest price ever paid for a Major League Baseball team, is valuing the Nets at $1.7 billion and the arena at $1.1 billion, NBA league sources told The Post.
That’s a pricey sum for the Nets — about 20 percent more than the team would fetch if they were sold on the open market, one sports banker said.
Guggenheim is offering the premium to pre-empt any auction for the whole team and arena, the banker said.
Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov, the Russian billionaire, is expected to remain in control of the Nets, according to Nets Daily, the website, which first reported the talks.
Bruce Ratner, who controls Barclays Center, would retain that same control after the deal, if it is completed, according to the report.
There are instances where a team’s controlling owner and league governor owns less than 50 percent of a franchise.
Some sports business veterans doubt Prokhorov will retain that much control.
“You don’t pay at that price point and not get control,” one sports banker told The Post.
Ratner, whose ownership group still owns 20 percent of the Nets as well as 55 percent of Barclays Center, has had his share of the Nets on the market for several months.
Ratner was looking for a $1 billion team valuation for his 20 percent stake and hoping to complete a sale by the end of the year.
The value of a team rises considerably if it is selling a majority — and not just a minority — stake.
Barclays Arena operates at break-even while the Nets are a money loser, sources said.
There is a belief that Ratner’s group was selling its 20 percent stake to get suitors interested in a larger team and arena deal.
The partners at Guggenheim have been trying to build a sports empire since forming a consortium that bought the Dodgers two years ago.
Both the NBA and MLB allow owners to control teams in different sports if they are in separate markets.
Prokhorov bought the Nets for $223 million in cash in May 2010 — and for a while was willing to spare no expense to turn the Nets into a championship contender.
Last season, Prokhorov footed the bill for a roster that cost more than $100 million — $190 million when the luxury tax is included.
That is a new NBA record.
Prokhorov agreed to somewhat rein in the team’s spending to help increase the potential valuation of Ratner’s stake in the franchise, The Post reported in June.
Even after shedding some payroll this off-season — including jettisoning Paul Pierce via free agency — the Nets will still enter the year with the league’s highest payroll, at roughly $94 million.
With the luxury tax, Prokhorov will be cutting a check for about $130 million.
Prokhorov did not attend many games last year, and would make a big profit in a sale that valued the team at $1.7 billion.
Forest City and Barclays declined comment.