An investment group led by William Chisholm, director of Symphony Technology Group, has reached an agreement with Boston Basketball Partners LLC for the purchase of the Boston Celtics, current NBA champions and more alureate team in the history of the competition. The agreement has been closed, in the absence of the routine approval of the NBA, for 6,100 million dollars (about 5,634 million euros to the change), which converts the transaction into the highest in the history of US sports franchises. The previous record was the Washington Commanders of the NFL, acquired in 2023 for a price of 6,050 million dollars to a group led by businessman Josh Harris.
The agreement provides that the current CEO of the Celtics, WyC Grousbeck, will continue in office until the end of the 2027-28 season.
The Boston Celtics are the current NBA champions. Recently, they have renewed their main players (Jaylen Brown, Jason Tatum, Jrue Hailiday and Serccik White have a contract until 2028). Currently, the Massachussets franchise has a salary mass of 193 million dollars, with Jason Tatum as a better paid player, with a salary for this course of 49.2 million dollars.
The legend of the ‘leprechaun’
Boston Celtics are one of the founding franchises of the NBA, to which they belong since its inaugural season, the 1946-47. The arrival of the coach Grid Auerbach, added to the transfer that led Bill Russell to the green franchise in 1956, turned a scarcely competitive group into a legend. Of the next 13 seasons, the Celtics were champions in 11, eight of them consecutive. Miraculous victories cemented the legend of the Garden ghostsin reference to its old game court, the Boston Garden, or the Irish superstition of the Leprechaunthe goblin that reigns in the franchise logo.
Garden’s ghosts, in reality, were triquiñuelas that Aurbach herself, factotum Of the Celtics, he fed. The decisive match in which, in the costumes of the visiting team, there was no water, or only cold water, or the air conditioning did not work, or there were missing.
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But they were details. The legend of the Boston team would be impossible without a collection of players (from Bill Russell to Larry Bird; from Bob Cousy to Dave Cowens; from Sam Jones to Paul Pierce) that allowed them to win 18 titles. All this, despite the tragic drought between 1986 and 2008, based on misfortune: death, for drug abuse, from Len Bias the same day of its signing and the cardiovascular accident that ended, in 1993, with the life of the promising reggie Lewis.
THE INTEGRATION TEAM
The Celtics are, although Boston has historically been a city where racism has camp without rate, the racial integration team. Auerbach, a Jew of Russian origin, was blind to skin color. He did not hesitate to sign Chuck Cooper, the first black to play in the NBA, or in being the first coach to align a headline of black players (Russell, KC and Sam Jones, Snatch Sanders and Willie Naulls), or in spending his witness as coach Russell himself.
A Russell, by the way, who made activism for equal rights more than a struggle and never felt comfortable in Boston. Despite being the leader of the best winner of the NBA, he never had the support of the Celtics followers base. Therefore, when his sweater was retired, he asked to do it silently, without audience in the stands.
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