Warriors’ Moses Moody Dunks Offseason Real Estate Internship

Golden State Warriors star Moses Moody has taken a 3-point lob into real estate.

The swingman for the San Francisco NBA team interned over the summer at locally based Shorenstein Properties, dribbling through the ins and outs of the real estate industry, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

A 39 percent 3-point shooter this season, Moody developed an interest in real estate reading “Rich Dad Poor Dad,” a New York Times bestseller about financial literacy and independence.

Shorenstein, chaired by Warriors season-ticket holder Brandon Shorenstein, owns tens of millions of square feet of commercial buildings nationwide.

At a poker outing with the Warriors last season, a teammate told Moody that Shorenstein sits by their bench. They met during a midseason game.

Moody asked to parlay more at Shorenstein’s luxurious Downtown office. Shorenstein obliged.

They met days later and Moody, 22, arrived with a notebook and an hour’s worth of questions about real estate, according to the Chronicle. Among them: “What’s the best way to learn?”

“He was saying the best way to learn about it is to actually do it,” Moody said. They agreed he’d participate in the firm’s internship program during the offseason.

What resulted was a mostly weekday program in which the NBA shooter would suit down from sneakers and shorts into buttoned-up business attire after workouts at Chase Center.

Moody learned industry software and terminology, attended meetings, happy hours, and what it took to develop properties.

“He’s such a humble guy. He acted like any other intern,” Shorenstein, CEO of his eponymous firm, told the Chronicle. “He really put his head down, worked hard and acted like anybody else.”

At the end of the internship’s final week, Moody was invited to a Saturday birthday party in Little Rock, Ark., his hometown to which direct commercial flights are unavailable from San Francisco.

Shorenstein asked him when he was leaving. Friday night, Moody said, on a connecting red-eye through Denver.

“Why didn’t you leave yesterday?” Shorenstein asked him.

“Because I didn’t want to miss the last day of the internship,” Moody said.

— Dana Bartholomew