So when an athlete gets traded, he buys a new house. Easy. Then what? You really think he gets his belongings packed up and trucked across the country. If he's Allen Iverson, he sells it all and cops new stuff. From The 700 Level: At 11:00 PM on Thursday, an auction of the contents from the Villanova Mansion once owned by the ex-76ers guard abruptly ended. The auction was handled by Barry S. Slosberg, Inc. Auctioneers/Appraisers (which they gracefully pawned off on eBay) and included such valuables as women's shoes and blouses, men's fur coats, huge bronze animals, lamps, his weights, his baby's bassinette, his art, his custom coffee table that sits on top of his custom-designed rug and even his son's custom $15,000 gas-powered mini-Maserati.I'm not so familiar with urban slang, but my sources tell me that this counts as "ballin' out of control."
The most expensive items sold were the Bronze Lion Sculptures ($5,400), Nija Men's Fox Fur Jacket ($5,000) and, of course, the Maserati ($2,900).
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9-07-2007 @ 5:07PM
Jeff said...
Dang. I wish I had known about it. I might have bid on some cool stuff for my kids.
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9-07-2007 @ 5:39PM
Don said...
Cool stuff for your kids because it came from Iveerson's house? lol Whatever, moron, might want to clean that tongue. To each his own, but multi-millionaire or not, yeah, I'd pack at least most of my stuff up and take it with me. That these guys can acquire things so easily and sell them away just as quickly says a lot about them psychologically in terms of how little the possessions really mean and shows how there's so much more going on there, subconsciously, beyond the money and the fame.
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9-07-2007 @ 10:21PM
SHOTT3R said...
Wait, a Maserati for under 3 grand? Is that a typo?
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9-08-2007 @ 12:10AM
JohnnyG said...
A lot of things were put in by hired designers. Not much has sentimental value. The mini-Maseratti could have been a gift from a sponser the little tyke wasn't interested in to begin with. Costs a lot to move and insure it. Some things are in storage or being used by family or friends, etc.. One tends to stop attaching to things when it's known politics are involved. Anything of personal value or worth was already moved before the ink was dry. Can't hold everything up to a candle and say it teaches any one's children values all the time. Parent's should be the main examplers. That some upcoming players look upon it askew begs questions unanswerable but to their own upbringing and internal moral compass as individual people.
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9-08-2007 @ 1:05AM
George B Vieto said...
Nice to know how the rich and famous atheles do with their toys.
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