{"id":395809,"date":"2026-08-02T20:06:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T20:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/395809\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T20:06:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T20:06:57","slug":"houston-mtv-cribs-mansion-once-owned-by-nba-star-lists-for-11-99m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/395809\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston MTV \u2018Cribs\u2019 mansion once owned by NBA star lists for $11.99M"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now listed for $11.99 million, the Royal Oaks estate<\/a> was once owned by former\u00a0NBA All-Star Nick Van Exel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Van\u00a0Exel, who lived in Houston during NBA off-seasons, spent 13 years playing for various teams including the Los Angeles Lakers, Dallas Mavericks and San Antonio Spurs. He earned an All-Star selection with the Lakers in 1998 before retiring in 2006 and later transitioning into coaching.<\/p>\n

Van\u00a0Exel showcased the home on the 2000s-era MTV series that took viewers inside celebrities\u2019 lavish residences.<\/p>\n

Located at 3102 Noble Lakes Lane, the home has traded hands multiple times over the years, and most recently sold <\/a>in December 2025 in an online auction hosted by Concierge Auctions. It was the most expensive home sold in the Houston area that month, with a final sale price between $7.8 million to $9 million, according to\u00a0HAR.<\/p>\n

The current owners decided the sprawling estate, which has undergone about $16 million worth of upgrades over the years, exceeds their long-term needs, according to Martha Turner\u00a0Sotheby\u2019s International Realty, which is marketing the listing.<\/p>\n

Set on a hillside near by the Royal Oaks Country Club, the mansion overlooks a golf course and lake. It includes a private bowling alley, a 13-seat home theater and an infinity-edge pool, according to Sotheby\u2019s. There\u2019s also a 3,000-gallon aquarium with albino mini sharks, according to the earlier Concierge Auctions listing.<\/p>\n

Designed by architect Paul\u00a0Olson, the home also has two full kitchens, two elevators, a 260-bottle wine display, a sauna and a dedicated barbershop. An entire level of the home is dedicated to a 2,824-square-foot primary closet, which Sotheby\u2019s said may be one \u00a0the largest single-story residential dressing suites in the country.<\/p>\n

The mansion was the third priciest new listing to hit the market in Texas in July, according to the Houston Association of Realtors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now listed for $11.99 million, the Royal Oaks estate was once owned by former\u00a0NBA All-Star Nick Van Exel.\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-395809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}