Gresh & Fauria: Charlie Jacobs on the sale of the Boston Celtics

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00:00This weird new business that came up was the fact that the Celtics are, you know,

00:04we're going to sell the team and the new ownership that I've heard.

00:07It's like a lot of people talk about building a new arena.

00:10How concerned are you, you know, in the future, possibly losing the Celtics

00:15for them, maybe building a new arena?

00:16I haven't heard that one.

00:17But yeah, and listen, I listen, I'm very good friends with the current Celtics

00:22ownership, and I've had conversations with both WIC and frankly, the majority

00:27of the minority owners of that group.

00:30Um, we have a very good rapport and have had one for 20 plus years.

00:35Um, I'd expect that, uh, whoever the new owners will come in and we'll talk about

00:39it.

00:39The Celtics are have signed a lease with the TD garden for another 12 years or so.

00:43So I don't expect that they'll be moving anytime soon.

00:47And you know, I'd love to have a part of it.

00:50We'll see.

00:51Of course, I was going to go.

00:52I was going to go the other way.

00:54You start to see these prices for these franchises.

00:56And I wonder if you and your dad sit there and go, well, the timing might be

01:01right because the NHL is getting fiscally stronger.

01:05And I know that, uh, is expansion on the way in the NHL?

01:09Like, where do you see kind of the league going the next five years?

01:12Cause we've got a lot of shifting going on.

01:14Yeah, we do.

01:15You know, I do think that, you know, listen, they've, they've recently

01:18cleaned up, um, what was the Phoenix Coyotes and they moved to Utah.

01:22I do think that there, there is opportunity to grow our game.

01:26And that is a national hockey league.

01:27And I do think it it's somewhere, you know, whether it's, I don't know what

01:31the market is and I'll get in trouble for mentioning any single one of them,

01:33but I do think there is opportunity for expansion just as the NBA is talking

01:37about bringing a team to right.

01:39To Los Angeles.

01:39It's kind of inevitable.

01:40It's almost like each league is in their own arms race in their own way.

01:44I hadn't thought of it like that, but sure.

01:45It kind of feels like it.

01:47Well, because you know, everybody, each owner is its own business.

01:50But then again, you're under this giant umbrella where they're like,

01:52how do we grow the pie?

01:53And everybody's like, well, it's just expand.

01:54There we go.

01:55Well, you can only do that so many times, right?

01:56That is as we have as we have found out.

01:59No question.

02:00Ask the Vancouver Grizzlies.

02:02That's another story for another time.

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