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Celtics co-owner Steve Pagliuca selling Weston home

Given the owner of the building, it shouldn’t surprise that there is also an indoor gym complete with an indoor, half-basketball court as well.

Fans of the Boston Celtics who are looking for a home that matches their fandom and who have a whole lot of money to burn will be intrigued by the news Celtics co-owner Steve Pagliuca has put his expansive Weston home on the market, according to reporting from Boston.com’s Peyton Doyle.

The 15,000-square-foot house is listed at $8,999,000 and was entirely remade from the original home on the property after Pagliuca bought the property with his wife in 1995. The seven-bedroom, nine-bathroom mini-mansion was finished in 2003 and has a pool, a massive patio, and a three-story organization featuring a two-story foyer.

Given the owner of the building, it shouldn’t surprise there is an indoor gym complete with an indoor basketball half court as well.

To see photos of the property for fun or potential purchase, take a look at the listing by The Sarkis Team at Douglas Elliman.

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Boston Celtics co-owner Stephen Pagliuca on his Atalanta FC ownership

Pags talks about how he came to buy Atalanta, and talks on his interest in the sport more generally.

By now it is no secret that Boston Celtics co-Governor Stephen Pagliuca is not just a fan of European football (better known stateside as “soccer”), but also an active participant in Italian Series A football as part owner of Atalanta, the professional football club which is based in Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy.

Pagliuca has also been tied to other football clubs in Europe, most famously after getting involved in the bidding process for Premier League club Chelsea, but also more recently being rumored as having an interest in buying either Liverpool football club or Manchester United.

Naturally, the Celtics co-owner’s active and growing presence in European football has gotten Pagliuca on the European sports media’s radar, with a recent interview by CBS Sports’ Matteo Bonetti.

Take a look at the clip embedded above to hear more about Pags’ love for footy abroad.

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Boston Celtics co-Governor Stephen Pagliuca hints at interest in buying Liverpool or Manchester United

It’s not the first Premier League team Pags has been tied to.

Boston Celtics fans who also follow the sport of soccer in Europe likely recall Celtics co-Governor Stephen Pagliuca‘s interest in buying Chelsea, the British football club, before another investment consortium won the bidding process. Those fans may be keen to learn Pagliuca recently hinted his investment firm may yet have an interest in purchasing a Premier League club.

Asked about whether he might have an interest in buying either Liverpool or Manchester United, Pagliuca replied (via the Manchester Evening News’ Matthew Abbott) “I looked at Liverpool about 15 years ago,” before their current ownership group bought the ball club.

“I can’t talk specifically about any transactions we are working on because of confidentiality agreements, but obviously, we are aware of those transactions,” added Pagliuca. “The question on those transactions, in general, is what price level do we think is sustainable?”

“Obviously the Chelsea process, which received a record price, has probably motivated folks to try and monetize clubs that they have owned for a long time, and we are certainly in a period where values have been driven up,” continued the Celtics owner, who also owns Italian club Atalanta.

“Anyone who buys a club has to assess the economic opportunity, how much money we have to put in to keep up the quality and what that will cost you. That is what we do in everything we are looking at.”

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On this day: Boston Basketball Partners announce purchase of team

On this day in 2002, Boston Basketball Partners formally announced their purchase of the Boston Celtics from former owner Paul Gaston.

On this day in Boston Celtics history, the Boston Basketball Partners, L.L.C. announced that they had completed the purchase of the Celtics NBA basketball franchise from the previous owners in 2002.

Boston Basketball Partners is an investment firm made up of a managing board comprised of Wyc Grousbeck, H. Irving Grousbeck, Stephen Pagliuca, and The Abbey Group (consisting of Robert Epstein, Paul Edgerley, Glenn Hutchins, and James Pallotta), who together purchased the team from owner Paul Gaston. Previously announced on September 27th that the partners would purchase the team pending NBA approval, the investment group issued a press release formally announcing the transfer of the club.

“We are extremely excited to be a part of the glory and tradition that is the Boston Celtics,” related Managing Partner H. Irving Grousbeck via the Celtics.

Celtics co-owner Steve Pagliuca on how Joe Mazzulla is doing as head coach

Mazzulla has had his work cut out for him, and this is what Pagliuca had to say about it thus far.

When it comes to assessing how well a new head coach is doing, the fans of a given NBA team can be among the toughest critics, especially for a club as storied as the Boston Celtics.

When you are also carrying the interim status after stepping up in the wake of another head coach’s failure, the stakes are even higher.

Mix in title contention expectations, and it would be hard to conceive of a potentially more fraught tightrope for a first-time head coach like Boston’s Joe Mazzulla. But that is the reality for the Rhode Island native at the helm of the Celtics this season.

At the end of the day, the opinion that matters above all regarding continued employment is that of the people signing and cutting the paychecks, so to hear what Boston co-owner Steve Pagliuca thinks of Mazzulla’s job so far carries weight.

Take a look at the clip embedded above to hear what Pagliuca had to say about this topic in a recent interview with the folks at Boston’s Sports Center 5 WCVB.

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Celtics co-owner Steve Pagliuca flagged as potential Liverpool FC buyer

The Fenway Sports Group is reportedly selling Liverpool FC, and Celtics co-owner Steve Pagliuca may be a name to keep an eye on.

Boston Celtics co-owner Steve Pagliuca has been identified as a potential person to watch with the Liverpool Football Club up for sale. The Athletic’s Matt Slater suggested as much on a recent edition of the “Off the Ball” show.

The British soccer team is owned by the Fenway Sports Group, the parent company of the Boston Red Sox and Pittsburgh Penguins. FSG is fielding offers for a full takeover, though no sale is imminent.

Pagliuca joined Wyc Grousbeck in buying the Boston Celtics in 2002. Now the franchise is worth an estimated $4 billion. Pagliuca also owns a 55% stake in the Italian soccer team Atalanta, and just last year attempted to buy a controlling stake in Chelsea Football Club.

FSG’s sale of Liverpool is not guaranteed, and Pagliuca hasn’t publicly made a bid at the time of this writing. With a reported net worth of $3.87 billion and an apparent interest in European soccer, though, his hat could certainly find its way into the ring.

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Boston Celtics co-Governors Wyc Grousbeck and Steven Pagliuca reflect on the Big 3 era

Grousbeck and Pagliuca sat down with the folks at NBC Sports Boston to talk over the team’s story over the prior twenty years.

The Boston Celtics recently won the 1,000th game since the ownership group led by the ball club’s co-govorners Wyc Grousbeck and Steve Pagliuca bought the team two decades ago. Since that eventful investment went down, the Celtics have won an NBA title (2008), three Eastern Conference championships (2008, 2010 and 2022), and eight Atlantic Division titles (2005, 2008-11, 2017 and 2022).

To talk over their historic tenure with one of the northeast’s most beloved sports teams and among the most storied ball clubs in the history of the NBA, Grousbeck, and Pagliuca sat down with the folks at NBC Sports Boston to talk over the team’s story over the prior 20 years.

Take a look at the clip embedded below to hear what the pair of Celtics owners had in their bag of tales to tell.

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Celtics co-owner Steve Pagliuca hints Boston was only used by Brooklyn Nets as pressure tactic in Kevin Durant saga

‘A lot of times clubs are trying to create a market to make a trade, and if they say we’re interested, that’s really maybe to get another club to make a trade with them because they think we’re going to take the player,’ said Pagliuca.

The Kevin Durant trade request saga with the Brooklyn Nets roped in Boston Celtics fans this offseason when it was reported that the Celtics had engaged the Nets for Durant around a package centered on star forward Jaylen Brown. There was considerable pushback in the wake of that report from not only fans but also trusted reporters known for their closeness to Boston and even strong hints if not an outright denial from both team president Brad Stevens and head coach Ime Udoka that those talks were never serious.

Now, speaking on a recent episode of WEEI’s “Merloni, Fauria and Mego” show, Celtics co-owner Steve Pagliuca weighed in on the offseason trade rumor kerfuffle.

Asked if he calls Stevens right away when such rumors pop up, Pagliuca replied “I used to call (him) reasonably quickly.”

‘The best there ever was’ Boston Celtics co-owner Stephen Pagliuca remembers Bill Russell

‘We’re very sad, the Celtics here, at Bill Russell’s passing,’ related the Boston co-governor.

“Bill is just iconic, the best there ever was in basketball, and had a huge impact,” said Stephen Pagliuca, co-owner of the Boston Celtics, the team with whom Bill Russell won all 11 of his record NBA championships that put the Celtics on the map as one of the league’s premier franchises and established the Louisiana native as the greatest winner of all time in any of the major North American sports.

“We’re very sad, the Celtics here, at Bill Russell’s passing,” continued the Bain Capital executive after learning of the iconic Boston big man’s death this weekend at age 88.

“We had the opportunity to work with him since we bought the club in 2002,” he added. “It’s been a fantastic relationship.”

Check out the clip embedded above to hear Pagliuca’s words in full on the Celtics legend’s passing, courtesy of local news station WCVB Channel 5 Boston.

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Celtics co-governor Steve Pagliuca’s consortium informed it will not be the preferred bidder for Chelsea FC

The Celtics co-governor will have to suffice with owning Atalanta FC (and some obscure Boston basketball team).

It looks as if the saga surrounding Boston Celtics co-governor Steve Pagliuca’s bid to purchase British Premier League football (as in soccer) club Chelsea has come to an end, with the Daily Telegraph’s Matt Law reporting that Pagliuca’s investment group will not be the club’s preferred bidder.

In layman’s terms, that means the team’s current board does not believe Pagliuca’s group to be the best option to purchase the team, effectively taking them out of the running to buy the team currently up for sale after sanctions sparked by the Russian invasion of Ukraine forced the sale of the club by the prior owner, Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.

The Guardian’s Jacob Steinberg reports that Todd Boehly’s consortium is the likely frontrunner to land the team, but some uncertainty remains as Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s consortium had announced they’d made a late offer worth more than $4 billion pounds (about $5 billion US).

At any rate, it seems Pagliuca et al are out of the running, with the Bain Capital executive having to console himself with ownership of also recently-purchased Italian football club Atalanta. While certainly not on the scale of club like Chelsea, it’s far from the worst consolation prize.

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