{"id":244637,"date":"2025-08-22T05:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T05:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/244637\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T05:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T05:34:12","slug":"nba-boston-celtics-new-co-owners-include-son-of-late-macau-casino-magnate-stanley-ho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/244637\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA: Boston Celtics\u2019 new co-owners include son of late Macau casino magnate Stanley Ho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The youngest son of the late Macau casino magnate Stanley Ho Hung-sun has become one of the co-owners of American basketball team the Boston Celtics.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Mario Ho Yau-kwan has joined a new ownership group at the Celtics \u2013 the NBA competition\u2019s most successful team, with 18 championships.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Ho Jnr was part of a consortium led by American private equity executive William Chisholm, who tabled a US$6.1 billion (HK$47.6 billion) bid earlier this year to acquire the Eastern Conference team.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThank you Bill [Chisholm] for letting me join the consortium and this record-breaking deal,\u201d Ho said on social media.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cAs a lifelong Celtics fan, I\u2019ll continue to give my everything to the organisation; the responsibilities officially start now!\u201d he added. \u201cThis is undoubtedly one of the happiest moments of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mario Ho\u2019s esports firm NIP Group listed on the Nasdaq last year. Photo: X\/NasdaqExchange\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4e4db482-7c86-42b8-bdc9-148da8424ecc_58a3a9a9.jpg\" title=\"Mario Ho\u2019s esports firm NIP Group listed on the Nasdaq last year. Photo: X\/NasdaqExchange\"\/>Mario Ho\u2019s esports firm NIP Group listed on the Nasdaq last year. Photo: X\/NasdaqExchange<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ho, who married Chinese supermodel Ming Xi Mengyao in 2019, was not involved in his late father\u2019s gaming empire, SJM Holdings, but leads NIP Group, an esports firm listed on the Nasdaq in July last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The youngest son of the late Macau casino magnate Stanley Ho Hung-sun has become one of the co-owners&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[41556,2350,40960,7,41548,45,75,3798,40957,46,40959,1409,41555,150,41551,41549,41553,1407,6,41552,41554,41550],"class_list":{"0":"post-244637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-celtics","8":"tag-adelson-family","9":"tag-american","10":"tag-andrew-bialecki","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-baskteball","13":"tag-boston","14":"tag-boston-celtics","15":"tag-bostonceltics","16":"tag-bruce-beal","17":"tag-celtics","18":"tag-dom-ferrante","19":"tag-eastern-conference","20":"tag-ian-loring","21":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","22":"tag-macau","23":"tag-mario-ho-yau-kwan","24":"tag-massachusetts-institute-of-technology","25":"tag-national-basketball-association","26":"tag-nba","27":"tag-nip-group","28":"tag-sands-china","29":"tag-stanley-ho-hung-sun"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115070793548934643","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}