{"id":403647,"date":"2025-08-19T16:04:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/nl\/nieuws\/boston-celtics-officieel-verkocht\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T10:59:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T08:59:00","slug":"boston-celtics-officieel-verkocht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/nl\/nieuws\/boston-celtics-officieel-verkocht\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Celtics officieel verkocht"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sale of the Boston Celtics is now official. The Massachusetts franchise confirmed the news in a statement issued by its press department.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA Board of Governors has approved the sale <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/noticias\/cifra-record-por-la-venta-de-los-celtics\/\">for a record $6.1 billion<\/a>, which will pass into the hands of a group led by billionaire Will Chisholm.<\/p>\n<div style=\"height:28px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A statement from the Boston Celtics <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X3GD1WDcm9\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/X3GD1WDcm9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Boston Celtics (@celtics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/celtics\/status\/1957798306660204735?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">August 19, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div style=\"height:28px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;This is a dream come true for me and my family,&#8221; Chisholm said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel very fortunate to be here as the new investor group, a team of talented and motivated people who care about the Celtics and their great community. On behalf of our group, I&#8217;m delighted to team up with Wyc, Brad Stevens, and Rich Gotham to keep this outstanding franchise moving forward. We&#8217;re committed to building a lasting legacy for the Celtics and adding to our championship banners. I can&#8217;t wait to see the team back on the court this fall,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>As the Celtics&#8217; main move\u2014and particularly that of Brad Stevens\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/nl\/nieuws\/brad-stevens-schrapt-301-miljoen-van-de-payroll\/\">has been to drastically cut the team&#8217;s payroll<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2025, they had $540 million committed, and now they&#8217;re down to just $239 million.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Cover photo: Imagn Images)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sale of the Boston Celtics is now official. The Massachusetts franchise confirmed the news in a statement issued by its press department. The NBA &#8230; <a title=\"Boston Celtics officieel verkocht\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/nl\/nieuws\/boston-celtics-officieel-verkocht\/\" aria-label=\"Lees meer over Boston Celtics officieel verkocht\">Leeg meer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14501,"featured_media":403646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-403647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nieuws","tag-boston-celtics","no-featured-image-padding","resize-featured-image"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/geen-spaanse-headline-om-te-vertalen-1.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Nora Elisabeth van den Heuvel","author_link":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/nl\/auteur\/nora-elisabeth\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403648,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403647\/revisions\/403648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}