Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie is likely focused on his team’s looming Super Bowl LIX showdown with Kansas City but the confetti for the Eagles’ second NFC Championship in three years had hardly fallen Sunday night when a report made it appear that the 73-year-old businessman has another battle waiting.
According to sports media star Bill Simmons, Lurie is one of four or five potential buyers that have emerged for the upcoming sale of the Boston Celtics.
“The Celtics, it was their first round of buyers, they had to cut down their prospective buyers,” Simmons noted on his podcast Sunday night. “Four or five people made the first round. One of the people was the Eagles owner, Jeffrey Lurie, who is apparently from Massachusetts. There’s been a couple of ‘Hmm, I wonder who these guys are?’ There are a couple I couldn’t figure out but that’s one.”
Lurie was raised in the Boston area and holds degrees from three Massachusetts schools: Clark University (B.A.), Boston University (Masters), and Brandeis University (doctorate.)
Lurie, who has a net worth of $5.3 billion, purchased the Eagles in 1994. Philadelphia has made the Super Bowl four times under his stewardship, winning in 2017.
Celtics majority owner and governor Wyc Grousbeck, announced plans to sell the team, just days after Boston held a rolling rally in celebration of the franchise’s long-awaited Banner 18 this past summer.
“The expectation is to sell the time in two parts with 51 percent going fairly soon, 49 percent then closing in second closing. That’s the expectation in 2028,” Grousbeck told CNBC’s Closing Bell in July. “I’m planning or expecting to stay on until 2028. We’re going to hire bankers and advisers. This is going to be quite the bidding process.”
He led the group that bought the Celtics for $360 million in 2002.
According to ESPN NBA Insider Shams Charania, the eventual sale of the Celtics is expected to surpass $6 billion dollars. That figure would blow past the $4 billion sale of the Phoenix Suns to Matt Ishbia as the most expensive sale in NBA history.
Wyc Grousbeck, who has been the team’s majority owner since 2002, has said that he will remain the team’s governor until 2028, when the sale is anticipated to be completed.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates as more information becomes available.
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