The Boston Celtics introduced their plans to promote the bulk possession stake, following 22 years below Wyc Grousbeck’s management, and fewer than three weeks after the group received its record-breaking 18th title within the NBA Finals.
Commissioner Adam Silver spoke out concerning the anticipated upcoming switch of powers after Grousbeck and the staff’s present possession group led two profitable title runs, “saddened” by the “bittersweet” information, in line with Gary Washburn of The Boston Globe. When Grousbeck and right-hand man Steve Pagliuca led the franchise’s final buy — for $360 million in 2002 — the Celtics have been 16 years faraway from their final championship.
Silver regards Grousbeck as a mannequin proprietor. In 2008, Grousbeck allowed then-general supervisor Danny Ainge to architect the Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen “Large Three” trio, which defeated Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers within the Finals. Final season, present president of basketball operations Brad Stevens was given the inexperienced gentle to amass Kristaps Porzingis and Jrue Vacation earlier than Boston racked up a league-leading 64 wins within the common season and went 16-3 within the playoffs.
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When tough choices similar to buying and selling away Pierce and Garnett to the Brooklyn Nets in 2013 — for draft picks that grew to become Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum — or parting methods with Ime Udoka, wanted to be made, the group didn’t fumble. Grousbeck’s transparency with the followers rang true. After the Celtics beat the Dallas Mavericks within the Finals, Grousbeck vocalized the staff’s dedication to retaining as a lot of the roster as doable — Oshae Brissett and Svi Mykhailiuk are the one remaining free brokers from the 2024-25 staff.
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But, that effort additionally created an advanced dilemma, which received’t disappear, as soon as an official sale is made and Grousbeck is now not a part of Celtics possession.
In signing Brown, Tatum, Kristaps Porzingis, Jrue Vacation and Derrick White to big-dollar, multi-year extensions, Boston created the NBA’s (by far) most costly beginning lineup — costing the Celtics over $920 million in mixed salaries.
No matter who sits in Grousbeck’s soon-to-be-replaced possession’s seat, the expectations that Boston trotted into Opening Night time with final October will stay with the Celtics as quickly as Banner 18 is formally raised at TD Backyard.
