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Justin Quinn

Now a Floridian, Boston Celtics co-owner Steve Pagliuca says why he left Massachusetts

Even if it may have been a factor in former Boston Celtics restricted free agent Grant Williams electing to decamp from Boston to the Dallas Mavericks, Celtics co-owner Steven Pagliuca recently related that Massachusetts’ so-called “millionaire’s tax” was not a factor in the co-governor’s decision to sell his home in the state to relocate to Florida.

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Recently retired from his main gig working for Bain Capital, Pagliuca said that “now that I am not coming back and working there, I’m really not living there” in an interview with Boston Business Journal’s Greg Ryan. Still, the Celtics co-owner admitted that taxes are a factor considered by players.

“Generally, punitive tax measures will make it more attractive for higher earners, whether basketball players or not, to go to … lower tax states.”

As for at least some of the animus to move to the Sunshine State if taxes were not the cause, Pags admitted that the “winters have been fantastic.”

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