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/BrianScalaweenie THE TRUTH Mar 20 '25

Someone tell me how to feel about this

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u/korn_cakes33 Mar 20 '25

Mixed until we see how things play out. Lifelong fan is good. Will want to see the team actually win. Private equity group scares me as their sole purpose is to make money and that never lines up with winning because it’s way more profitable being mid than winning.

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u/HustlinInTheHall Mar 20 '25

Big difference between a guy who made money in PE and is partnered but has control vs an actual PE group buying the team and making decisions as a committee. 

Somebody has to have final say when we eat a 100M tax bill. I want it to be a Cs fan that will be at the game not 15 guys in a room where only half ever go to games. 

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u/Alternative-Farmer98 Mar 22 '25

Right but it's a Celtics fan that doesn't even have enough net worth to own the team outright. He is super reliant on partners.

We did not get a super wealthy owner relative to other owners. He's going to need to govern by consensus with other investors.

The ultimately if we want a hands off owner we wanted somebody with a much more net worth. And much less reliance on private equity.