Odds Show The Favorites To Be Next Owner Of The Boston Celtics
The Boston Celtics just won their 18th NBA Championship and surprisingly have been put up for sale by Boston Basketball Partners, a group led by venture capitalist and majority owner Wyc Grousbeck.
With the news being so new, fans haven’t gotten much of an inkling into who will be the next owner of the team, but Las Vegas doesn’t waste any time and already has odds out for who will be the heir to the Celtics throne.
The Celtics Wire’s Cameron Tabatabaie shared odds from BetOnline that show a large group of candidates and their respective betting odds to buy the Celtics, with Oracle CEO Larry Ellison listed as the favorite at 2/1, while current co-owner Steve Pagliuca sits in second place at 3/1 and Fidelity CEO Abigail Johnson is third at 4/1.
Jeremy Sports Group, Fenway Sports Group, Jeff Bezos, and Steve Cohen are next in line on the odds list followed by Jerry Jones, Rob Walton, and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, and after that, the names get very funny very quickly.
Shaquille O’Neal and Charles Barkley together are 22/1, which are pretty bad odds considering The O’Neal/Barkley Investment Firm hasn’t been created yet.
There are a lot of Boston icons on this list, including Tom Brady, David Ortiz, Larry Bird, Dave Portnoy, Bill Simmons, and Bill Burr.
None of those guys presumably have the money to get a deal done, but it would certainly make Boston fans happy.
Lurking at 100/1 is every Celtics fan’s worst nightmare, LeBron James.
What a hilarious timeline that would be.