Imagine the pickup games! Los Angeles Lakers point guard Russell Westbrook recently scored a $33.5 million Brentwood trophy mansion directly across the street from teammate LeBron James, Dirt reported.

Westbrook bought the luxe estate from heiress, model, designer, and socialite Petra Ecclestone, daughter of Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One racing billionaire.

But she is perhaps best known for previously purchasing the iconic Holmby Hills residence The Manor from Candy Spelling for $85 million in 2011.

Ecclestone sold The Manor for a record-breaking $119.7 million in 2019. That same year, she downsized into this 8,600-square-foot piece of paradise.

Ecclestone paid $22,700,000 for the six-bedroom, eight-bath property.

She and her husband, property expert Sam Palmer, then did a number of upgrades to it, converting the 10-car garage to staff quarters, laundry and dry-cleaning facilities, and a couple of glass-walled offices, according to the New York Times.

The time must have been right to move on, since the sellers potentially made quite a killing from their three-year investment.

Modern farmhouse

The Ecclestone/Westbrook sale took place off market, so photos and details on the estate aren’t readily available. But Dirt reports that the three-story modern farmhouse-style mansion sits on a nearly half-acre lot, has walls of glass, and a pool and spa. It’s surrounded by mature trees and hedges, which provide a fair amount of privacy.

This is not Westbrook’s first time dabbling in super-luxe real estate. In 2018, the NBA star purchased a brand-new home in Brentwood Park for $19,750,000.

At 13,425-square feet, it was even bigger than the pad he just bought from Ecclestone.

In September of this year, Westbrook listed that home at $29,995,000, and there is no record of it being sold yet. It takes an NBA superstar to be able to hold two mortgages for properties like that.

Westbrook, 33, certainly qualifies. The 6’3,” Long Beach, CA, native is a nine-time NBA All-Star and earned the NBA MVP in 2017. Before joining the Lakers in 2021, he played for the Washington Wizards, Houston Rockets, and Oklahoma City Thunder.

Randy White contributed to this report.

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