Trade & FA 2024-25:

[KillerLeft]

Not sure the sale of the team is related to a big payroll.

I'm pretty sure it is, because of the hours and hours of content out there about it. I suppose all of the "experts" could be wrong, but the consensus is that the current owners (a father and son, if memory serves) have differing views of how to proceed, financially, and that at least one of them is hoping to sell the problem forward to avoid becoming the most hated man in Boston over the next few seasons. Sale motivations aside, everyone agrees that they're about to have to gut the team in the near future. It's not just about the money, you literally can't function as a team with the handicaps they're about to start racking up due to the cap rules.