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The latest inductions into the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts are set for August 13. Inductees include Jerry Buss, Karl Malone, Scottie Pippen and the 1992 USA Basketball "Dream Team. As part of the event, Grey Flannel Auctions is holding its Fifth Annual Basketball Hall of Fame Induction Auction. This year's auction features 244 lots of vintage basketball-related memorabilia.

Items up for bid span basketball history. Some are mementos from team glory days like the Chicago Bulls 1991-1992 NBA Championship banner that hung in Chicago Stadium. Others celebrate a player like Wilt Chamberlain's 1965-66 Philadelphia 76ers game-used home jersey. Exhibiting a style used for only one season, the red and white jersey is emblazoned with the all-time single game point-scoring king's number "13″ and the word "Phila." it had a minimum bid of $10,000 but is already trending close to $20,000 in online bidding.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Kenneth Cole and his wife Maria Cuomo Cole, have just paid $14.5 million for a five-bedroom, five-bath prewar co-op apartment at One Sutton Place South.
--Real-estate investor/enthusiast Michael Hirtenstein has added even more space to his TriBeCa bachelor pad at One York taking it from a huge 6,600 square feet to a gargantuan 11,000 square feet of interior space plus 6,000 square feet of exterior space.
--So far Andie McDowell, Christie Brinkley and Rosie O'Donnell have all checked out the nine remaining residences at 10 West End Ave.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--The former Guccione townhouse sold for just $49 million to hedge fund titan Philip Falcone. Amazing considering it was once listed, albeit briefly and foolishly for $99 million.
--TV home renovator Bob Vila spent $4 million on a townhouse in 2004. He has now renovated and is asking $11.5 million. The renovation was filmed for season 15 of the TV show Bob Vila's Home Again. The house is now two duplexes plus a full floor apartment as well as rear half-floor apartments on the first and fourth floors, which Mr. Vila couldn't touch because there are still rent-stabilized tenants there. The penthouse is being rented for the year at around $15,000 per month, and the duplex downstairs is rented at around $10,000. The listing is here.
--Estée Lauder CEO and president (and grandson) William P. Lauder has gotten in at snooty 778 Park Avenue, despite a scandal with a love child. Lauder paid $27,5 million for his apartment.
--A trader named Ping Jiang, managing director at billionaire Steven Cohen's hedge fund SAC Capital, paid $16.5 million for a 4,000-square-foot co-op at the Dakota and was accepted by the coop board even though a former trader at SAC filed a lawsuit alleging that Mr. Jiang had forced him to take black-market female hormones.
--The most expensive co-op listing ever on Central Park West listed at $36 million by music mogul Steve Gottlieb, is no longer listed. Sold or is Gottilieb looking for a little less publicity since his label TVT Records has filed for bankruptcy protection.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Actor Malcolm Gets has sold his three-bedroom house in Los Feliz for $1,069,500.
-- via the NY Observer, "Harry Potter" actor Daniel Radcliffe has paid $4.9 million for a three-bedroom condo unit in Manhattan's Morton Square development.
--One of my all time favorite estates of the day, the Ursus Major home in Bel-Air, shown above, that belonged to Wilt Chamberlain sold for $6.555 million. It was listed for a whopping $11.5 million when we made it an estate of the day in December 2006.
--The Malibu beach house that Paris Hilton rented last summer can be yours this summer for $80,000 a month for a minimum of two months. The listing is here.

From the Real Estalker:
--The Real Estalker Mama checks out Sidney Kimmel's $81.5 million pleasure palace in Palm Beach.
--Author and radio host Garrison Keillor has put his seven-bedroom Minnesota home on the market for $1.65 million. He bought in 1998 for $710,000. The listing is here.
--Actor Chris O'Donnell has put his Pacific Palisades home on the market for $5.395 million.
--Fleur de Lys, the $125 million Saperstein home in Holmby Hills just may have found a buyer.
--Greek shipping heir Paris Latsis has put his Beverly Hills Post Office area home on the market for $15 million. It is our estate of the day later today.
--Kanye West has sold the Beverly Hills teardown house he purchased a year ago for $7,150,000 and then listed for $8,699,000. The purchase price isn't known.
--via the NY Post's Page Six, Nicole Richie and Joel Madden have purchased a million dollar apartment on The Bowery in New York City.
--Cher has put her Malibu mansion on to the market as a "pocket listing" and is looking for a rumored $40 million for the place.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--Mary Lynn Rajskub, an actress seen on the TV show "24" has placed her Venice, CA bungalow on the market for $1,299,000. The listing is here, it's as cute as she is.
--Mixmaster Mike, a 37-year-old DJ with the Beastie Boys, has purchased a home in the Sunset Strip area for $990,000.
--Stacey Bendet, the designer-owner of the women's clothing boutique Alice & Olivia, has bought a John Woolf home in the Sunset Strip area for close to $3 million. She plans to used the home as a style salon and party pad and Moby will be using the guest house as a recording studio.
Alicia Piazza, wife of baseball catcher Mike Piazza, has listed a loft she owns in downtown Long Beach at $689,000. She and Piazza recently bought a home in the Miami Beach area for $10 million.

From AOL Real Estate:
--Home deals under $250,000.

Every time I see a listing that claims the home has Frank Lloyd Wright influences I sigh. Very few homes deserve the Lloyd Wright inspired moniker. This one is different, the use of wood as well as the filtering of light do give it a Frank Lloyd Wright feel. The four-bedroom home is located in a celeb-packed neighborhood in ultra-elite Bel-Air, California and sits on 2.5 acres. Details include 40-foot ceilings, walls of glass which reveal skyline views, solar heating, a steam shower, wraparound pool and other top-of-the-line amenities. But the real lure is the stunningly beautiful design which is iconic rather than dated even though the house was built in the early 1970s. According to Forbes, the home is owned by George Meyer and Maria Semple, the husband/wife writing team behind The Simpsons, and was built in 1971 by Wilt Chamberlain. It is listed at $11.5 million. According to legend, Wilt named the home Ursa Major after his own nickname of the Big Dipper. After the jump, the sexiest place to stargaze.