Andre Iguodala sells Main Line home
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Andre Iguodala sells Main Line home
Bob Ford, Inquirer Sports Columnist
In this column from the NBA draft on Thursday night, I wondered what the 76ers were going to do with all the similar players they seem to enjoy collecting on their roster. The next-to-last paragraph read this way:
“The feeling here is that one of those duplications will be calling a real estate agent soon and his name is Andre Iguodala. Otherwise, the selection of (Moe) Harkless doesn’t make much sense.”
Well, what do you know? In the Friday edition of Philadelphia Business Journal, right there on page 30, among the high-end real estate transactions, is the news that Iguodala has sold his house on the Main Line for $1.25 million.
The Villanova home had been listed for sale for some time, according to selling agent Michael Becker of Prudential Fox & Roach, and Iguodala had been leasing it to other tenants during the sale process. So, it’s not like Iguodala got a phone call from the Sixers on Monday and started making plans. The sale went through in mid-May while Iguodala and the Sixers were still busy with the Boston Celtics in the second round of the playoffs.
“I never met him,” Becker said. “It was all done through his agent. All I can tell you is that he wanted to sell the house.”
The five-bedroom, six-bathroom custom-built home was completed for Iguodala in 2008. He sold it for a bargain. Comparable listings in the area average approximately $1.6 million, which was the Iguodala’s original asking price for the property. Maybe he just wants to travel lighter, or live in town, or downsize from a property that cost him $28,000 in taxes in 2011. In any case, Iguodala is divesting himself of his Philadelphia holdings and that could be a strong indication he doesn’t expect to be around much longer.
The Sixers drafted Harkless, a small forward from St. John’s, who not only plays the same position as Iguodala, but he has very similar attributes – quick to the rim, a decent handle on the ball, not much outside shooting.
It’s true that Harkless is young, just 19 years old, and will probably not transition into the regular playing rotation right away. It’s also true, however, that the Sixers are toying with the idea of giving Evan Turner more minutes at the wing position, something that will open up space for the drop-dead perimeter shooter the team hopes to acquire either through free agency or trade.
And if someone arrives in trade, someone has to leave. We won’t know the identity of that someone until it happens. But someone just sold a house.
I'm shocked that everyone and their mother is saying that an Iggy trade is imminent. They obviously haven't been following this team the past few years because this guy has been surrounded by rumors the entire time with nothing happening. People have said that he was tradeable with Turner's arrival. Even if they've been shopping him, no deal has been good enough to pull the trigger and this organization isn't about to trade its best player for peanuts.
I don't care if Iggy moves to another city, I won't consider any trade imminent until the news breaks.— enkiel- By the way, the author of this article quoting himself and claiming to be a prophet is ridiculous. News of this sale was being passed around on friggin Youtube yesterday.— enkiel
- Wilt wasn't very likeable. Why do we care if these guys are likeable. Elvis turned into a drug addled creep by the time he croaked on the crapper, but i still love his music.— retzlaff
- To Ashburn072 -- How can you say that AI is "one utterly unlikable person"? Have you even spent 10 minutes in his company?
And PLEASE: No KYLE KORVER -- Not again!!!— tbjama - Out here on the West Coast in Laker-land, they're hot to move Gasol, and he might be on his way to Philly...— JRum
- Boom! There it is...
- caught: not sure the Lakers would trade Gasol for Iguodala straight-up. I will believe any trade when it happens. This story is ridiculous anyway, as houses take forever to sell these days and did Ford check to see where he has been living while the House was being rented to tenants?— chuckw
- They should try to trade Iguodala to Houston for Kevin Martin and Royce White. Houston didn't want three rookies, would fill an obvious need at SF, and open up room for Jeremy Lamb at SG. Sixers get a competent SG with a decent sized expirer after the season to coincide with Brand's expirer, a multitalented rookie with lots of potential, and open up room for Harkless and Turner. Let this season be a time to gauge your 7 young players, only sign fillers to one year deals, and be ready to rock and roll the next year with all the cap space you could imagine and a firm idea of the talent level on the squad.— aintthatashame
Now this is real journalism. Pulitzer written all over it.— pedge- Just spoke with Bearsfriend and he said that Royce White bought Iguodala's house!!!!— JBP
- JBP: priceless! — chuckw
- Seriously?— ClarkU
- Chris Christie has convinced AI to move to NJ???????— Taxes
- Bob Ford probably still thinks Paul McCartney is dead.— dasher
- This is literally the dumbest story I've ever seen. He'd been leasing that property for over a year and had been living somewhere else in the area...for over a year. It'd been for sale for over a year. Some more awesome crack journalism from our mediocre Inky sportswriters.— vdstrading
