Simply weeks after profitable the 2024 NBA Championship, the Boston Celtics franchise is formally up on the market.
In a press release cross-posted on the Celtics’ official X and Instagram accounts, the staff’s possession group, Boston Basketball Companions LLC, revealed that it could be promoting all of its shares.
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“The controlling household of the possession group, after appreciable thought and inside dialogue, has determined to promote the staff for property and household planning issues,” the assertion learn.
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— Boston Celtics (@celtics) July 1, 2024
The group mentioned that the corporate’s managing board plans to have a majority of the corporate offered by the tip of this yr or early subsequent, with the complete steadiness anticipated to shut in 2028.
Wyc Grousbeck will proceed to function Governor of the Celtics till the deal is financially accomplished in 2028, after turning into the bulk shareholder of the staff in 2002 for $360 million.
The Celtics group didn’t elaborate additional on the proposed sale or potential patrons.
Boston’s beloved staff, which has received 18 championships, essentially the most in NBA historical past, is not the one staff within the league that is seen main adjustments in management in latest months.
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The deal was value an estimated $4 billion.
The Celtics are at present the fourth Most worthy NBA staff within the league, with an estimated valuation of $4.7 billion, per Forbes.