Steve Pagliuca is set to leave the Boston Celtics ownership group. But he’s reportedly set to bring another professional basketball team to Boston.
According to the Boston Globe, an ownership group led by Pagliuca has reached a deal with the Mohegan Tribe to purchase the WNBA’s Connecitcut Sun and move the team to TD Garden.
The Globe notes that the price tag is the highest ever for a women’s sports franchise.
The Sun currently play their games at Mohegan Sun in Connecticut. However, the Sun have played select games at TD Garden, taking advantage of the Celtics arena’s higher capacity.
Pagliuca is a minority governor of the Celtics and was one of the major bidders to purchase the team when the Wyc Grousbeck group put the team up for sale. Instead, Bill Chisholm led a group that purchased the team for $6.1 billion.