Now a Floridian, Boston Celtics co-owner Steve Pagliuca says why he left Massachusetts

Surprisngly, it wasn’t the taxes — unlike (at least in part) Grant Williams.

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Though it might have been a factor in former Boston Celtics restricted free agent Grant Williams electing to decamp from Boston to the Dallas Mavericks, Massachusetts’ so-called “millionaires’ tax” was not a factor in Celtics co-owner Steven Pagliuca‘s decision to sell his home in the state and  relocate to Florida.

Recently retired from Bain Capital, Pagliuca said “now that I am not coming back and working there, I’m really not living there” in an interview with Boston Business Journal’s Greg Ryan. Still, the Celtics co-owner admitted that taxes are a factor considered by players.

“Generally, punitive tax measures will make it more attractive for higher earners, whether basketball players or not, to go to … lower tax states.”

Of course, Pags admitted the “winters have been fantastic.”

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