Simply weeks after successful the 2024 NBA Championship, the Boston Celtics franchise is formally up on the market.
In an announcement cross-posted on the Celtics’ official X and Instagram accounts, the workforce’s possession group, Boston Basketball Companions LLC, revealed that it might be promoting all of its shares.
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“The controlling household of the possession group, after appreciable thought and inner dialogue, has determined to promote the workforce for property and household planning concerns,” the assertion learn.
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— Boston Celtics (@celtics) July 1, 2024
The group stated that the corporate’s managing board plans to have a majority of the corporate bought by the top of this yr or early subsequent, with the complete stability anticipated to shut in 2028.
Wyc Grousbeck will proceed to function Governor of the Celtics till the deal is financially accomplished in 2028, after changing into the bulk shareholder of the workforce in 2002 for $360 million.
The Celtics group didn’t elaborate additional on the proposed sale or potential patrons.
Boston’s beloved workforce, which has received 18 championships, essentially the most in NBA historical past, is not the one workforce within the league that is seen main modifications in management in latest months.
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Final yr, billionaire Mark Cuban bought his majority share within the Dallas Mavericks to Miriam Adelson, the widow of billionaire and on line casino kingpin Sheldon Adelson and the proprietor of the Las Vegas Sands Company.
The deal was value an estimated $4 billion.
The Celtics are at the moment the fourth most precious NBA workforce within the league, with an estimated valuation of $4.7 billion, per Forbes.
