Hi everybody I'm Diane Brady. I am here with Wick Grosbeck who is the lead

owner of the Boston Celtics. Wick good to see you. You too Diane nice, nice to see you again.

I feel like we could be doing something on your band too because I see one of your guitars

in the background, which we will get to.

You're a man of many talents. Look, I was very interested in doing a leadership

interview with you because I think you have such an interesting background and

also your sort of current interest but let me

start with what you wanted to be when you grew up because I see you've got a history

degree from Princeton you did law at University of Michigan, Stanford, MBA.

What was all that in pursuit of?

Well, as I grew up as a kid outside of Boston,

I definitely wanted to play for one of the Boston teams. That's absolutely true. My best sport was probably baseball back then not that it was that terrific. But I stuck with the sports idea and in college I walked on to become a rower so I rode crew.

Yeah. And in our boat went undefeated my senior year and we sort of won everything we could win and we had a great team.

The teammates are still friends to this day 40 years later and so it was a formative experience for me to put that much into something and I found in myself

thanks to the coaching and thanks to the other guys but somehow found like a sixth or seventh gear inside that I didn't really have.

I was sort of just going along and a bookish kind of teenager and, you know, became more focused on what I could accomplish

you know if I put myself to it.

So it put my mind to it.

So that led 20 years later to saying

I want to take that energy and power and competitiveness and

turn it into my work and so to the idea of buying the Celtics. Before we get to the Celtics, you mentioned baseball.

Is it true that you were originally interested out when you were out on the West Coast,

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