Source: Washington Business Journal
Buyer's representative: Koki Adasi
Washington Wizards coach
Wes Unseld Jr. and his wife, Evelyn, have landed in Potomac. And, of course, their new home has a basketball court.
The couple paid $3.7 million last month for a 10,733-square-foot mansion on a 2-acre lot north of River Road and east of Piney Meetinghouse Road, public records show. That’s $201,000 more than the home was
first listed for on Feb. 11, according to Realtor.com.
The same property, “perched high on a beautiful private” lot, per its most recent listing, sold for $2.6 million in June 2019.
The home includes five bedrooms, six full baths and three half-baths, a banquet-sized dining room, gourmet kitchen, “numerous galleries,” oversized butler’s pantry, wood-paneled library, gym and spa with sauna and steam room, insulated home theater with snack bar and an arcade.
Outside are wraparound patios, a pool and multisport court with in-ground hoops, plus a climate-controlled three-car garage with an electric car charger and a car lift.
Leslie Friedson of Compass, who was the listing agent for the property, did not respond to a request for comment. A Wizards spokesperson did not comment.
Unseld was named in July as the franchise's 25th head coach, his first in that role after nine seasons in assistant coaching posts at the Denver Nuggets, Orlando Magic and Golden State Warriors.
Last year's shift to Washington is a return home of sorts — his Hall of Famer father, Wes Unseld Sr., was a Washington Bullets superstar, described as one of the franchise's greatest players, and the younger Unseld himself played for Johns Hopkins University and started his career in the late 1990s as a pro scout, then assistant coach, for the Wizards and Mystics. A hot start to this year's season, however, has since faltered to a 35-47 record and a dramatically retooled roster for the Wizards.
