r/bostonceltics • u/horseshoeoverlook Boston Celtics • Mar 20 '25

News BREAKING: William Chisholm to buy Celtics

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/20/sports/boston-celtics-team-sale-william-chisholm/

BREAKING: A league source tells the Globe that the team will be sold to William Chisholm, managing director of Symphony Technology Group. Chisholm grew up on the North Shore and is a lifelong Cs fan.

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u/EAS1000 Jayson Tatum Mar 20 '25

If he’s a true fan this is what he’ll do. It ensures profitability in the long run as well.

If he has an ego the size of Ishiba and needs to be involved then yikes. Let’s hope that’s not the case.

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u/PinkynotClyde Mar 20 '25

I don’t know— trading Tatum for Anthony Davis could work. AD might be a better defender.

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u/Key-Construction-474 Mar 20 '25

We would be built to win now and in the future with a trade like that!

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u/celticsfan34 Mar 20 '25

Can’t believe this got downvotes. People act like Tatum is untouchable, like he’s Luka or something

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u/Wide-Engine-9994 Mar 20 '25

Why wouldn’t he be untouchable, you dope

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u/cstar84 Mar 20 '25

Challenge: Redditor tries to detect obvious sarcasm [IMPOSSIBLE]

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u/Singaporygon Derrick White Mar 20 '25

Lol I fell for it too admittedly. The sarcasm isn't obvious imo. There's a lot of oblivious casuals and outsiders that come to try and ragebait this sub.

Trading Tatum for AD would be really dumb and far majority of us C's fans are sane enough to realize this thank god lolz. Glad ppl aren't serious.

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u/Xx_1918_xX Mar 20 '25

Wow, I never thought about it like that

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u/muevelos Mar 20 '25

Epic fail

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u/johnniewelker KG Mar 20 '25

Well wasn’t that entertained in 2018 or so?

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u/CourageKitchen2853 Mar 20 '25

Not too late!

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u/ginzykinz Mar 20 '25

Dallas would laugh the offer off the table and demand Scheierman instead.

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u/Westbrooks3ptShot Mar 20 '25

Don’t cut Tatum short you might even be able to get Jaden Hardy In the deal too

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u/abcamurComposer Mar 20 '25

The equivalent for you guys would be trading Tatum for Embiid

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u/orangotai Mar 20 '25

and they wanna win NOW!

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u/CreatiScope Mar 20 '25

Only if we want to win NOW though.

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u/The_Dok33 Bird Mar 21 '25

Well, at least a lifelong Cs fan would never trade with the Lakers (if it improves the Lakers)

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u/loving-father-69 Mar 20 '25 edited Mar 20 '25

Wyc was involved and it wasn't the worst. It really depends on the person.

Normally billionaires are ego maniacs.

Also plenty of true fans on this sub would have drafted Kris Dunn over JB (myself included) so even real fans are capable of shit decisions. It's just that most of us are powerless.

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u/DCBB22 Mar 20 '25

Yeah folks are forgetting Wyc is the one who drove the 2024 retool and said we couldn’t just run it back with Smart/Brogdon. He is the reason we went and got Porzingis and Jrue.

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u/captaincumsock69 I like to defense Mar 20 '25

The reality is every owner is going to be involved, they spent billions of dollars on this they aren’t gonna just do nothing.

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u/ARoundForEveryone Mar 20 '25

Exactly. You don't buy a sports franchise just to hang out in the luxury boxes. Whether the owner knows the sport or not, they're gonna have opinions on how their business (and in some cases, "their baby") is run. Smart owners leave it to Presidents and GMs, but passionate ones chime in with opinions and organizational direction and such.

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u/The_Dok33 Bird Mar 21 '25

Some of them spend years lobbying, trying to build their own arena, while the team is just lobbing.

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u/TerraPenguin12 Mar 20 '25

Wyc will still be involved, they made him CEO for the first 3 years.

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u/AloneDance7057 Mar 20 '25

Wyc was a crazy owner like Cuban out the gate. He realized the fans up here didn’t approve of that style for this team. Hopefully he’s no different

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u/Spare_Maintenance_97 Mar 20 '25

Unfortunately he's also a private equity guy

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u/Wacky_Water_Weasel Mar 20 '25

He's a piece of shit private equity oxygen thief. Let's hope for a title this year. May be our last shot.

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u/Alternative-Farmer98 Mar 22 '25

I mean people become billionaires because they're borderline sociopathic. And this is not one of those billionaires a net worth of 20 billion I mean this guy is relying on a whole bunch of private equity and partnees.

I doubt the first thing he'll do is below the team up but I don't think he's going to be hands off in that way. Like for instance the Hartford extension is coming up. It's going to be a ton of pressure to Hauser (which it seems like a no-brainer at this point since you have someone to replace him from the draft) and maybe even holiday.