Scoop on the Final 3 Celtics buyers?

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We may have a scoop on the Final 3 Celtics buyers. Who would you want to buy the Celtics?

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00:00You're workshopping your scoop.

00:02Yeah.

00:04From a good source?

00:05A great source.

00:06All right.

00:07Okay.

00:08You're not known for your scoops.

00:09No.

00:10Rich Keefe known for his scoops coming up at 10 this morning.

00:15Yes.

00:16But this is a Celtic scoop.

00:18Celtic scoop.

00:19I was chatting with somebody that I am close with and trust a lot.

00:25Okay.

00:26Implicitly?

00:27Implicitly, yes.

00:28And he never revealed the identity.

00:32I thought it was Meg.

00:33Was she?

00:34Was she?

00:35Okay.

00:36All right.

00:37Long pause.

00:38Yeah.

00:39They cut me off.

00:40Was telling me about the Celtics, their pitch deck for selling the team.

00:46And there are three final groups.

00:50Okay.

00:51Okay.

00:52Now, this person, not from the area who I was talking to.

00:57So, Expedition, Jeff Bezos is one.

01:01Okay.

01:02Bezos is still in.

01:03Yep.

01:04Still in.

01:05Bezos!

01:06Yes.

01:07Okay.

01:08Bezos is still in.

01:09Win Encore.

01:10Really?

01:11Wow.

01:12The number two.

01:13Oh, are these ordered?

01:14Oh, no.

01:15Not ordered.

01:16They're just three final.

01:17Yeah.

01:18I'm building up to the last.

01:19Because some people believe that there won't be a Revs stadium in Everett, but there will

01:25eventually be, if Win Encore gets it, there will be a Celtics building over there.

01:31Ooh.

01:32Interesting to note in the Globe story over the weekend, though, they sold the land.

01:36Yes.

01:37So, that Win doesn't, it's a similar but different situation to the Celtics with relationship

01:41with the Bruins.

01:42Right.

01:43If Win buys the Celtics, they do not own the land that the casino rests on.

01:47Okay.

01:48They had to sell that during the pandemic.

01:50Okay.

01:51Now, I say that he or she is not from the area because they then say to me, and then

01:57the final is someone I don't know, Sam Kennedy, and I gasp.

02:03And so, it says Sam Kennedy and group, which is, of course.

02:09Sam Kennedy and group.

02:11Which is Fenway Sports Group.

02:12He's the president of it.

02:14Yeah.

02:15Oh, but they're trying to be sneaky when it comes to the documents or what have.

02:20It does not say Fenway Sports Group.

02:22It says Sam Kennedy.

02:24Huh.

02:25So, I am writing this right now, breaking the Boston Reds.

02:30I mean, it would be great.

02:31We could ask him for his front office report.

02:32It's Thursday.

02:33Yes.

02:34Oh, nevermind.

02:35Sorry.

02:36Huh.

02:37So, maybe that's why the cameras have gone away and there's no more speaking.

02:44Their focus is elsewhere.

02:45They're busy right now.

02:46Yeah.

02:47So, I had heard that Fenway Sports Group was out.

02:50Correct.

02:51Unless this is a group that Sam has undertaken on his own.

02:54Well, so, I had a question about this because Sam, I know, is involved with PGA now, correct?

03:00Well, John Henry and Wick and several, Arthur Blank and others are, yes.

03:07But is that considered Fenway Sports Group or is that a different entity?

03:11No, it's a different entity.

03:13It's an entity that they put together.

03:16Fenway Sports Group is a part of the other entity that they put together in order to

03:21invest, I think the number was $7 billion in the eventual merger, PGA, Live, et cetera,

03:30whatever.

03:31Okay.

03:32So, those are the three finalists then?

03:33That is, those are the three groups.

03:34And so, then that means your boy, Rob Hill, is out?

03:38I mean, unless he would be like a smaller investor under one of these groups.

03:42No, but I mean, you know.

03:43I just, I don't, so then, in my mind, if it says Sam Kennedy, could it be that other group

03:49that's involved with the PGA or is it Fenway Sports Group?

03:52I don't know.

03:53Sam Kennedy is the president of Fenway Sports Group.

03:55He would not be leading another group.

03:57He doesn't have the butt money himself.

04:01Who do you prefer out of those three?

04:03Kick in the nuts.

04:04Bezos!

04:05Ah, yes.

04:06Sean, do you prefer Bezos because he has endless gobs of money?

04:11Is that why?

04:12Sure, that works as long as you're going to spend.

04:13I mean, I don't really care who it is.

04:14Absentee owner.

04:15But, I mean.

04:16That's fine.

04:17Whatever.

04:18That's what happens in sports now.

04:19Nobody, I mean.

04:20Who is it that owns the Avalanche and the Rams, the Cronkies, right?

04:24They're basically absentee.

04:25Who cares?

04:26The Rams are doing just fine.

04:27Right.

04:28You're a big Arsenal guy.

04:29Yeah.

04:30Love Arsenal.

04:31They own Arsenal.

04:32Exactly.

04:33So, I mean, they have like five or six different teams.

04:34And a lot of those, I mean, the Avalanche are Stanley Cup champions recently.

04:37The Rams just won, what, three years ago now and they're still a good football team.

04:41Like, that's fine.

04:42As long as you're going to pay.

04:43I don't really care.

04:44Yeah.

04:45Yeah.

04:46It's like the owner of the Golden State Warriors is from around here.

04:48We've already talked about the owner for the Philadelphia Eagles being from around here.

04:51I don't know.

04:52I want them to be from here.

04:53Like that, this is what I mean.

04:54So, if you want them to be from around here, then I guess you're wanting Sam Kennedy.

04:59But the Red Sox ownership group was from all out of town and they did a great job when

05:04they got here.

05:05Right.

05:06Yeah.

05:07That's why I don't really care where you're from.

05:08I mean, I never like, because nowadays you see more of that anyways.

05:12I mean, how many, how many owners, like when you start to look at some of these new owners,

05:16how many of them are like the Robert Kraft, like I was a season ticket holder.

05:21I grew up there.

05:22Like they're all, you know, even the Washington Commanders ownership group, aren't they from

05:27someplace else?

05:28They're not from like the DC area.

05:29Yeah.

05:30It was interesting in this pitch deck.

05:32One part that I pulled from what I was shown was your top two players will earn more money

05:39than every player on the Detroit Pistons next year.

05:42And the team will incur a $280 million luxury tax penalty.

05:46That's why you got to have big, as we say, big money.

05:51You got to have more.

05:52That's why.

05:53They did 440 mil in revenue last year.

05:55440 million dollars in revenue?

05:57Top five in the league in sales, including playoffs.

06:00So you got to have Bezos.

06:02Because Bezos, guess what?

06:03Bezos is going to get you a new arena.

06:05He'll get you that.

06:06He's coming in.

06:07He got that type of money.

06:09He's got that new private jet, too.

06:11Yeah.

06:12You see that thing?

06:13How fast that thing goes?

06:14No, I didn't see that.

06:15Oh, my Lord.

06:16He could fly that thing right into Logan or Hanscom, be out of game and fly right out

06:18afterwards.

06:19He got that.

06:20You don't sit down at the table with him money.

06:21He'll have his lovely fiance on his arm at all times.

06:24He'll be courtside.

06:25He will be courtside.

06:26I have a feeling Bezos might just buy the Seaport as like his backyard.

06:31I mean, he basically is.

06:33I mean, those two buildings are huge.

06:36I was just walking around there the other day in the Seaport.

06:38The new Amazon buildings are gorgeous.

06:41But then Santo was telling me that there's going to be two more smaller buildings, one

06:44hotel, one residential.

06:45Yes.

06:46It's kitty-quartering them.

06:47Can I ask a question?

06:49Why the Seaport, the one part of Boston that was not designed before cars?

06:53Why is it built like they were unexpectedly seeing cars afterwards?

06:57What do you mean by that?

06:58The infrastructure of the Seaport is disastrous.

07:01There's traffic, there's gridlock, there's just building on top of building on top of

07:04building.

07:05You have to have roads.

07:06I mean, I like.

07:07What do you mean?

07:08No.

07:09I mean, are you saying that you would just like it to all be bikes?

07:11No, I'm saying that it was one plot of land that hadn't been developed yet.

07:15We could have developed it in a way that had infrastructure to support cars, not have gridlocked

07:20traffic, have actually things with forethought.

07:22Instead, it looks like it just threw up luxury buildings.

07:25Because the Seaport is a pain in the ass to get into.

07:27Watch your mouth.

07:28I mean, other than the one bridge in the Seaport Boulevard, that place is.

07:33Watch your mouth.

07:34The Seaport District, which is almost all white, no African-Americans there at all.

07:38It is a disaster to get into.

07:41Very, very diverse.

07:42You're there a lot for having a difficult time for getting in.

07:45No, but I go, you got to know when to hit.

07:47You got to know the right time to hit that.

07:50Hit when to get in there.

07:51Cause that Seaport is it's the Seaport Boulevard.

07:53That's what it's called.

07:54That place is always.

07:55Like I get it in the North end.

07:57It's been around since the 1700s.

07:59It wasn't designed for me.

08:00But the Seaport literally was built up in the last 15 years.

08:04I remember it was just a dump with a bunch of pocket lots.

08:06Right.

08:07It was literally Anthony's Pier 4.

08:08Yeah.

08:09And Whiskey Priest.

08:10Uh, Texter is correct.

08:12Greg, why do you care about the owner of the Celtics being from here?

08:16Because the mayor of the city of Boston is not even from here.

08:19So that's a great point.

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