“I like to test myself,” Chisholm said, “and do things that are hard.” That was part of his calculus when he called old soccer teammate and BDT & MSD Partners executive Gregg Lemkau in the summer of 2024 after his bank was hired to advise the controlling stakeholders, the Grousbeck family, on the sale of the Celtics. Suddenly, it felt as if they were back in a Dartmouth dorm. “Hey, Lem, I saw you were hired to sell the Celtics,” Chisholm recalled saying. “Yeah, pretty cool, right?” Lemkau responded. Chisholm agreed, and added that he wanted to buy the team that had coursed through his veins since he was a child. Lemkau thought Chisholm was making a joke. “Dude,” he said, “you don’t have that kind of scratch.”
Boston Globe
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