Courtney Cox: 3 final groups for Celtics ownership

Who is going to buy the Celtics? We may now be getting a clearer picture thanks to The Greg Hill Show’s Courtney Cox, who reported on Thursday morning that there are “three final groups,” according to a source with knowledge of the situation.

“I was chatting with somebody I am close with and trust a lot, implicitly,” Cox said. “And he or she was telling me about the Celtics, their pitch deck for selling the team. And there are three final groups. This person, not from the area, who I was talking to. Expeditions, Jeff Bezos, is one.”

“Bezos is still in?,” Greg Hill asked, referencing conflicting reports about Bezos’ interest from a couple weeks ago.

Bill Simmons said on his podcast that there was “legitimate buzz” about Bezos buying the team, while The Information reported that there was “zero truth” to that report.

“Yep, still in,” Cox reiterated. “Wynn Encore, number two. Not ordered.”

“Some people believe,” Hill said, “that there won’t be a Revs stadium in Everett, but there will eventually be – if Wynn Encore gets it – there will be a Celtics building over there.”

“Interesting to note,” Chris Curtis added, “in the Globe story over the weekend, though: They sold the land. … If Wynn buys the Celtics, they do not own the land that the casino is on. They had to sell that during the pandemic.”

The third group, according to Cox, is another one that there have been conflicting reports about.

“Now, I say that he or she is not from the area because they then say to me, ‘The final is someone I don’t know: Sam Kennedy.’ And I gasped,” she said. “It says ‘Sam Kennedy and group,’ which is Fenway Sports Group.”

“He’s the president of it,” Curtis noted.

“It does not say ‘Fenway Sports Group.’ It says ‘Sam Kennedy,’” Cox clarified.

As Curtis pointed out, Kennedy is the CEO of Fenway Sports Group, so it would seem unlikely that he would be trying to buy the Celtics with some other group of investors. But for the sake of accuracy, it’s worth reiterating that “Fenway Sports Group” is not actually named in the pitch deck Courtney’s source was referencing.

Wyc Grousbeck and his family, the Celtics’ current majority owners, announced in July that they were planning to sell all of their shares in the team, with a majority interest sold in 2024 or early 2025 and the balance ultimately closing in 2028.

Listen to the full segment from the show above.