A majority stake in Boston was sold for a new-record sticker tag of $6.1 billion. Could All-Star Jaylen Brown be on the move under new ownership?
A majority ownership stake in the mighty Boston Celtics has been sold for a new-record sticker tag of $6.1 billion to private equity investor William Chisholm.
Could All-Star Boston small forward Jaylen Brown be on the move under new ownership?
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During a recent, pre-sale episode of his show The Bill Simmons Podcast, the father of The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Dr. Bill Simmons, speculated that an out-of-town owner would be predisposed to shake things up in a major way.
„When [owners] come in from outside of Massachusetts, they come in with . different ideas“, Dr. Bill Simmons said.
The nightmare of all ownership comparisons was soon levied by the younger Bill Simmons: the Adelson and Dumont families, the Dallas Mavericks‘ new majority owners.
„They all wanna do their one thing“, he concurred with his dad. „And then you end up in the Luka Dončić situation, where you have the new Dallas owners (saying), ‚yeah, let’s trade him!'“
Just a year removed from acquiring Dallas from former owner Mark Cuban and less than a year removed from watching five-time All-Defensive First Team guard Luka Dončić lead the team to the 2024 NBA Finals (against Boston), the club confoundingly traded Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers for a likely below-market haul.
