Chisholm, who made the jaw-dropping offer to buy the team, is the managing partner and chief investment officer at Symphony Technology Group – a private equity firm based in California. He grew up on the North Shore and is a die-hard Celtics fan who's paying a whopping $6.1 billion for the team.

Is new Boston Celtics majority owner Bill Chisholm a good fit for the community of fans he now represents? The private equity billionaire who helms the group taking over for current Celtics majority owner Wyc Grousbeck after his group submitted the winning bid has said all of the right things in his limited appearances with the local and national media since news broke of the looming transition for Boston.

Chisholm has indicated that he would like to maintain the organization’s unusual stability, and that has been comforting to Stevens as well as other team employees.