The purchase of Celtics exceeds sales record of a sports team in the US.
The Celtics were sold for $ 6,100 million. It is a record for an American sports franchise. Here are others that were sold for a lot of money.
Another American sports franchise has been sold for another record price.
Bill Chisholmmanaging partner of Symphony Technology Group, agreed to buy the Boston Celtics To the Grousbeck family for $ 6,100 million, according to Sources to AM850. This is the highest sale of an American sports franchise, exceeding the $ 6,050 million dollar brand established by the Washington Commanders in 2023.
The agreement comes at a time when the Celtics franchise is flourishing: they come from winning the title of the 2024-25 season and seem to be ready to go far in the playoffs. This agreement adds to the recent increase in the sales prices of franchises. Here is a list of some of the most expensive franchise acquisitions in American sport:
Washington Commanders
Sales price: $ 6,050 million dollars
This sale occurred after a turbulent period and multiple investigations on the expropient Dan Snyder, who was fined $ 60 million after lawyer Mary Jo White published her findings. The new owners were a group led by Josh Harris, who, together with David Blitzer as part of the Harris-Blitzer Sports Entertainment group, also owns the Philadelphia 76ers and the New Jersey Devils. The team ended the 2023-24 season with a 4-13 record, but ended with a 12-5 record in the 2024-25 season after recruiting Jayden Daniels as his new field marshal.
Sales price: $ 4,650 million dollars
The purchase of the Broncos by the Walton-Ipenner group in 2022 for $ 4,650 million dollars was the record sale price for an NFL team for more than $ 2,000 million dollars before the sale of the Commanders took place. Previously, the expropientary of the Carolina Panthers, Jerry Richardson, had sold his franchise to billionaire David Tepper for $ 2,275 million in 2018.
Rob Walton’s net assets is $ 57.9 billion, according to Forbes. His cousin and another heiress of Walmart, Ann Walton, is the wife of the owner of Los Angeles RamsStan Kroenke. Kroenke also owns three sports teams in Colorado: Denver Nuggets of the NBA, the Colorado Avalanche de la NHL and the Colorado Rapids of the mls.
Sales price: $ 4,000 million
The combined sale, approved by the League in February, established a new record for the NBA franchises for more than $ 1.5 billion, compared to the sale price of the Brooklyn Nets In 2019. The new owner, Matt Ishbia, played without a scholarship in Michigan State and was part of the Spartans team that won the National Championship in 2000.
Sales price: 2400 million dollars
The Mets had the honor of having the sale of the most expensive team in American sport until the arrival of the Broncos. In 2020, the Steve Cohen coverage fund manager bought the METS for $ 2.4 billion. Los Angeles Dodgers They previously held the record of the most expensive equipment of the MLB, when they were sold for $ 2,000 million in 2012.
Cohen is the founder of Point 72 Asset Management and the already extinct SAC Capital Advisors.
Brooklyn Nets
Sales price: $ 2,350 million dollars
In 2019, Joe Tsai, co -founder of Alibaba, bought the NETs for $ 2,350 million dollars to the Russian billionaire Mikhail Prójorov. Tsai had already acquired 49% of Projorov’s property in 2018, but accelerated the process to obtain total property. In addition to the purchase, then record, from Brooklyn, Tsai also acquired the Barclays Center, the Nets stadium, in a transaction separated for approximately $ 1,000 million.
Brooklyn is not the only New York sports team that TSAI owns. He bought the New York Liberty Franchise of the WNBA in January 2019.
Carolina Panthers
Sales price: $ 2,275 million dollars
The Panthers went on sale after the 2017 NFL season, after accusations of sexual harassment and labor misconduct against Richardson. Tepper, whose net assets amounts to $ 16.7 billion according to Forbes, bought the equipment for $ 2,275 million. Before taking care of Carolina, Tepper had a 5% participation in the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The founder of Appaloosa also invested $ 325 million in 2019 for the MLS to get its thirty team, the Charlotte FC.
Sales price: $ 2.200 million
The expropientary of the Rockets, Leslie Alexander, sold the team to billionaire Texano Tilman Futtitta for $ 2.2 billion in 2019. Futtitta grew in Galveston, Texas, and was a habitual assistant to Houston’s games before buying the franchise. According to its website, he is the only owner of Futtitta Entertainment, owner of the Landry’s Restoration Giant, the Golden Nugget casinos and hotels and the Rockets. Fertitta also has its own television program on CNBC called “Million Dollar Buyer”.
