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the way they vaporized the mavs best play was embarrassing for the rest of the league, 1.25ppp in the wcf to .68 in the finals lmao
― lag∞n, Friday, 5 July 2024 11:43 (three days ago) link
ah interesting
In conversations with some sources close to the situation, I’ve come away convinced that soon-to-be-90-year-old H. Irving Grousbeck is the one driving this sale and that 63-year-old son Wyc (one of four children of Irving Grousbeck) — managing partner, governor, and CEO of the Celtics, and always identified as the team’s owner — actually owns a relatively small stake in the franchise.
H. Irving Grousbeck — still teaching at Stanford Business School — has been the money behind the group since the beginning and there’s every indication that the billionaire (Forbes lists “Irving Grousbeck and family’s” worth at $1.8 billion) rarely seen at Celtics games is motivating this sale in an attempt to get his affairs in order.
I emailed the elder Grousbeck late Wednesday, requesting comment on my assertions, and he responded Thursday with a polite no comment.
When I texted Wyc with, “You OK if I say your personal stake in the team is less than 2 percent?”, he answered, “We hold as a family — all unified . . . We are a family and I also have a Celtics family is my comment. Thanks.”
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/07/05/sports/dan-shaughnessy-celtics-sale-grousbeck
― lag∞n, Friday, 5 July 2024 20:00 (three days ago) link
interesting!
(but struggling to do the math that leads forbes to believe irving grousbeck & family, who hold a significant stake in a team valued at around $5 billion, have a total net worth of only $1.8 billion)
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 5 July 2024 22:04 (three days ago) link
Grousbeck co-founded Continental Cablevision (later Media One) in 1964 with his college roommate, Amos Hostetter, Jr.[1]
wait, so both wyc grousbeck and james dolan own nba teams b/c their dads founded cable tv companies in the sixties?
― circles, Saturday, 6 July 2024 06:22 (two days ago) link