{"id":25817,"date":"2025-08-18T05:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/celtics-nba-approves-record-sale-for-6-1-billion-led-by-bill-chisholm\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T05:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:03:07","slug":"celtics-nba-approves-record-sale-for-6-1-billion-led-by-bill-chisholm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nba\/celtics-nba-approves-record-sale-for-6-1-billion-led-by-bill-chisholm\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics: NBA approves record sale for $6.1 billion, led by Bill Chisholm"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Bill Chisholm leads record Celtics purchase for $6.1 billion<\/h2>\n\nThe NBA Board of Governors approved the sale of the Boston Celtics to a group led by private equity magnate Bill Chisholm. The deal values the franchise at $6.1 billion.\n\nThe transaction is expected to close soon. Upon completion, Chisholm will take possession of at least 51% of the team, with full control by 2028, at a price that could raise the total value to $7.3 billion.\n\n\n<p>This is the largest amount paid for a professional American sports team. The previous record was held by the Washington Commanders, for which $6.05 billion was paid in 2023. The highest price for an NBA team was $4 billion, paid by Mat Ishbia for the Phoenix Suns in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\nChisholm, a Massachusetts native and graduate of Dartmouth College and Penn&#8217;s Wharton School of Business, is a managing partner at Symphony Technology Group, based in California. The new ownership group also includes Boston entrepreneurs Rob Hale, a current Celtics shareholder, and Bruce Beal Jr.\n\nWyc Grousbeck led the ownership group that purchased the team in 2002 for $360 million and presided over the NBA championships in 2008 and 2024. The franchise&#8217;s 18 NBA titles are a league record.\n\nChisholm outbid at least two other groups, one led by former Celtics minority partner Steve Pagliuca. Pagliuca announced plans to buy the Connecticut Sun for $325 million and move the team to Boston, but the sale and potential relocation are subject to approval by the WNBA Board of Governors.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Chisholm leads record Celtics purchase for $6.1 billion The NBA Board of Governors approved the sale of the Boston Celtics to a group led by private equity magnate Bill Chisholm. The deal values the franchise at $6.1 billion. The transaction is expected to close soon. Upon completion, Chisholm will take possession of at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[7163,372,103,2064],"class_list":{"0":"post-25817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-bill-chisholm","9":"tag-boston-celtics","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sale"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}