Celtics make press conference announcement after Jaylen Brown trade

Celtics new owner Bill Chisholm has been in the news a lot this week, following the team’s decision to part ways with All-NBA forward Jaylen Brown, who helped them win a championship and was named Finals MVP just two years prior.

A deep dive into Chisholm revealed private equity firms’ involvement in the team’s sale and the organization’s direction regarding the Celtics’ roster, according to ESPN’s Brian Windhorst.

“After winning the title, the Celtics were bought by Bill Chisholm, who went to Dartmouth and Wharton and funded the deal with a complex layering of private equity firms putting in institutional funds to assemble his record $6 billion purchase. There are several NBA teams with private equity investors and owners who made their money in high finance, but the Celtics are at the top of that pyramid, and their methodology certainly matches.

“Let me tell you, they did not become less analytical after that,” an Eastern Conference executive said. “Private equity wants the answers to the test.”

The recent development has sparked a debate about how organizations assess talent, with some prioritizing advanced analytics metrics over the human element and high-end talent.