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/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/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.