A five-bedroom, 3,576-square-foot Colonial-style house in Deerfield that former Chicago Bulls head coach Tim Floyd once owned sold on Sept. 30 for $1.218 million.
Hired by the Bulls in July 1998, Floyd had the unenviable task of replacing Phil Jackson, who led the Bulls to six titles in the 1990s. At the same time that Floyd replaced Jackson, the Bulls’ management said goodbye to many of the players who made those titles happen, including Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen, and the Bulls began an extended period of futility. Floyd resigned as Bulls head coach in 2001.
Floyd’s first Chicago-area home as Bulls coach was the Colonial-style house in Deerfield. He and his wife, Beverly, paid $565,000 for the house in 1998, and the couple sold it the following year for $610,000 in order to move to a vintage house in Evanston that was designed by architect Dwight Perkins.
Built in 1963 and renovated in 1972, the Colonial has 3-1/2 bathrooms, hardwood floors and a combined living room and dining room area with a wood beamed ceiling, built-ins with shiplap paneling and decorative doors and a fireplace with a wood mantel. Other features include a private office with French doors and floating display shelves and a kitchen with white cabinetry, an island with a quartz countertop, honed granite perimeter counters, stainless steel appliances and a walk-pantry.
The house also has a sunroom with shiplap paneling and a fireplace, a mudroom, a primary bedroom suite with an organized walk-in closet and a lower level with vinyl flooring.
Outside on the 0.34-acre property are a two-car heated garage, a professionally landscaped, fenced yard and a red brick paver patio.
The house first was listed for $1.2 million in June and went under contract three days later. It sold for above its asking price.
Public records do not yet identify the buyers.
The house had a $21,795 property tax bill in the 2023 tax year.
Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.
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