Celtics ownership shifts, pursuit of banners stays the same

The Boston Celtics introduced caller proprietor Bill Chisholm connected Thursday, pitching a creaseless handoff built connected acquainted faces and wide authority. “Let’s bash immoderate we tin to triumph championships and rise banners,” Chisholm said, flanked by erstwhile pb proprietor Wyc Grousbeck, squad president Rich Gotham, and president of hoops operations Brad Stevens. “I volition bash immoderate it takes, immoderate the Boston Celtics request maine to do.”
A Massachusetts autochthonal who built his luck successful backstage equity, Chisholm leads a radical paying astatine slightest $6.1 cardinal for the franchise, a grounds astatine the clip for a U.S. sports team. The NBA approved the woody unanimously past month. “The Celtics person brought maine joyousness my full life,” helium said. “This was an accidental that was a imagination that came true.”

Grousbeck, whose radical bought the squad successful 2002 and oversaw 2 titles and 2 much Finals trips, volition stay CEO for 5 years and service arsenic alternate governor. “I privation a 3rd ring. And past I privation a 4th ring,” helium said. More than fractional of the anterior ownership radical stays on, arsenic bash Stevens, Gotham, and manager Joe Mazzulla. Chisholm acceptable the hierarchy plainly: “There’s a governor, and the politician has the last say, and that’s me.”

Cap reality, roster reshaping, and the Garden

The Celtics’ contiguous comes with salary-cap guardrails. To debar second-apron restrictions, the nine moved connected from Jrue Holiday and Kristaps Porzingis this summer. Grousbeck said those deals would person happened careless of the sale. Stevens stressed flexibility: “You person to springiness yourself the flexibility and accidental to leap astatine the close deals… the 2nd apron was the key.” Jayson Tatum is rehabbing a ruptured close Achilles tendon that ended Boston’s repetition bid successful the East semifinals.

Chisholm backed staying astatine TD Garden, which the squad shares with the Bruins. “We’ve got a large happening going close now,” helium said, praising the arena and its transportation to fans. He besides voiced enactment for a WNBA squad successful Boston, noting league process and saying the thought “makes truthful overmuch sense.” Also contiguous was capitalist Aditya Mittal, who archetypal saw the Celtics successful the aged Garden. “It was magical,” helium said.

Chisholm’s marching orders were simple: “Let’s spell for it, but let’s bash it successful a tenable way… we’re going to bash everything we tin to win. It’s occupation No. 1.”