A group led by Boston Celtics minority owner Steve Pagliuca reached a deal Saturday to buy the WNBA’s Connecticut Sun and move the team to Boston for $325 million, a price tag that would be the largest ever for a professional women’s sports franchise, according to multiple reports.

Pagliuca is a minority governor of the Celtics and was one of the major bidders to purchase the team when the Wyc Grousbeck group put the team up for sale. Instead, Bill Chisholm led a group that purchased the team for $6.1 billion.

The league still must approve the sale, which will be for a record $325 million, and declared Saturday nine other cities which sought WNBA expansion franchises "have priority over Boston."