Michael Jordan shoots and misses – for a decade

If Michael Jordan were still playing basketball, he could have won six championships in the time his mansion in Chicago’s Highland Park neighborhood has been on the market.

A home belonging to the Chicago Bulls legend, who won six NBA titles in the 1990s, will celebrate 10 years on the market at the end of February.

The almost 33,000-square-foot mansion is listed for $14.855 million, a little over half the $29 million he originally asked for the nine-bedroom property, according to the Chicago Tribune. The six-time NBA Champion chose the final asking price because the numbers add up to his uniform number of 23.

While Jordan hasn’t budged on the price since 2015, Katherine Malkin of Compass told the Tribune that the property has been drawing interest recently.

“I’m not sure if it’s because of the TV programs that they did or if it’s because people have an interest in looking at it a little bit differently, but suddenly there does appear to be a bit of interest in it,” she said.

Netflix last year aired a documentary miniseries about Jordan and the 1990s Chicago Bulls called “The Last Dance,” which once again thrust His Airness into the public eye.

Malkin said the contemporary style mansion, built at the height of Jordan’s fame in 1995, has struggled to sell in-part because the Hall of Famer doesn’t want to put on open houses due to privacy concerns.

The seven-acre estate has 15 full bathrooms, four half-bathrooms, a basketball court, an infinity pool and a cigar room. The house has 56,000-square-feet of living space including the basement and 15-car garage. It also has a tennis court and a putting green.

The home went up for auction in 2013 but the winning bidders never materialized, the Tribune reported. It had a property tax bill of $132,014 for the 2020 tax year. It’s cost Jordan $1 million in taxes since he bought it.

Jordan, a billionaire who has homes in Florida and North Carolina, sold a property in Park City, Utah, to a buyer from Seattle for an undisclosed price in December 2020 after the home was listed for $7.5 million.

[Chicago Tribune] — Harrison Connery