Recently I brought you Dwayne Wade's flamboyant house. Now let's take a look at a more restrained home belonging to another Miami Heat player, Alonzo Mourning. Today's listing comes courtesy of the always fascinating Big Time Listings. They report that the Miami Herald wrote about the house in November 2006 when the house went on the market for $10 million. Mourning paid just $3.2 million for the five-bedroom home in 1996 when the house was brand spanking new. Mourning and his wife have since moved on to a fancier eight-bedroom home in Coral Gables that they bought in 2005. Toni Schrager has the listing for this home now set at $9.5 million.

Details include a rooftop deck, four car garage and a car port, a private boat harbor with three slips and a pool with a Jacuzzi. It has water views of Biscayne Bay, Key Biscayne and the Miami skyline. Mourning's home, while smaller than Wade's is a pricier location, hence the higher cost even though it is a smaller home (still over 10,000 square feet though).

There are extravagant notes, the dining room's ceiling is elaborately painted and the overall scale is standard McMansion largeness. Yet compared to Wade's home this one is rather sedate, anyone could move in immediately without having to repaint over pictures of the previous owner on the walls (or retile the pool). Mourning makes his tastes known more in a more subtle way, through the art on the walls and the books on the shelves (note the massive tome, Jazz Life, artfully placed on a table). After the jump, chess with a view.

The home of Miami Heat basketball star Dwayne Wade is one that I am just itching to hear your thoughts on.The massive home in the Pinecrest, Florida area puts to shame other NBA homes I have seen such as those owned by Shaquille O'Neal and Karl Malone. Like Shaq, Wade personalized his pool and like Malone, Wade went a wee bit crazy with the murals.

From the outside the nearly 12,000-square-foot French-style home seems rather sedate but once inside the six-bedroom home things get a bit Flashtastic. Wade, known as "Flash," has put a "W" inlaid in the marble floor in the entrance hall and the listing includes the furnishings, artwork and some of Mr. Wade's memorabilia. There are rooms in the home, such as the dining room that are rather elegantly decorated, there are also touches like the Spider-man-themed bathrooms and the many, many renderings of Mr. Wade, that make this a home in need of some work. The home is so idiosyncratic that you would really have to be a fan to live here and I wonder if he will have as tough a time selling as Malone did. There is also a one-bedroom guest house, pool and patio with a summer kitchen on the property. The home is listed at $8.9 million. After the jump, a monument to ego.

UPDATE: Wade has struggled to sell the home, reducing the price several times. It is now listed at $4.599 million.

[via The Real Estate Journal]