Boston Celtics buy for 6,100 million dollars, the highest figure in the history of sport

The Boston Celticsmore laureate team in the NBA with 18 championships, the last last season, has been sold by the Grousbeck family to Bill Chilshomfounder of the technology Symphony Technology Group and that has bought from the green team for 6,100 million dollars5,634 million euros, the highest figure in the history of sport.

The news, which was advanced this Thursday by Shams Charaniaone of the most recognized journalists in the American country, ends months of rumorology, as the set led by Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown and Kristaps porzingis He had been in the market since last year.

The family GrousbeckIn this way, it closes one of the most profitable businesses that are remembered. They bought the Celtics in 2003 for an amount close to the 360 million And, after getting two rings under his command (2008 and 2024), they detach them from them for a record that exceeds the sale of the Washington Comanders of the NFL (American football) in 2023, bought by 6,050 million.

Boston’s is the last franchise that changes hands in the NBA, an increasingly common transaction: in 2023 Matt Ishbia acquired the Phoenix Suns for 4,000; That same year, Jimmy and Dee Haslam took to the Milwaukee Bucks for 3,500; and, last December, the Adelson made the transaction of the Dallas Mavericks for 3,500.

This new level places American sport as the one that has moved the most money in the sale of equipment. Among the ten most expensive operations, only the Chelsea Football English is not American: Todd Boehly paid more than 5,000 million to Russian Roman Abramovich in 2022.

The ranking is completed by the aforementioned Boston Celtics and Washington Comanders, Denver Broncos (American football, 4,650 million, 2022), Phoenix Suns (Basketball, 4,000, 2023), New York Mets (baseball, 2,400, 2020), Brooklyn Nets (basketball, 2,350, 2019), Carolina Panthers (American Football, 2,275, 2018), Houston Rockets (Basketball, 2,200, 2017) and Los Angeles Dodgers (Baseball, 2,000, 2012).