Late NBA Trailblazer Jason Collins’s Brentwood Home Just Hit the Market for $3.75 Million

The house is listed. The price is $3.75 million. And the man who lived there changed professional sports forever.

Jason Collins died on May 12, 2026, at 47, after a battle with glioblastoma. He spent 22 years in this Brentwood home, right through the defining chapters of his life and career. Now a relative is selling it, and most coverage treats this like a standard real estate drop. It is not.

In April 2013, Collins published a cover story in Sports Illustrated that opened with twelve words: “I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay.”

He became the first openly gay active player in any of the four major American professional sports leagues.

Barack Obama called him personally and told him his actions would have a positive impact on someone he might never meet in his lifetime. Oprah Winfrey called the same afternoon.

A year later he returned to the Nets after they relocated to Brooklyn, finished his final season, and was named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in 2014. After retiring, he stayed close to the game as an NBA Cares and global inclusion ambassador.

He logged 13 seasons across six franchises, with his longest run being seven seasons with the New Jersey Nets. The stat line was never the point.

Collins bought this Brentwood property in 2004 for $2.39 million and lived in it for 22 years, right up until his death. It sits inside the guard-gated Mountaingate community, about 30 minutes south of his childhood neighborhood in Northridge.

The home spans over 5,000 square feet with four bedrooms and four full bathrooms.

Oversized windows, soaring double-height and vaulted ceilings, hardwood floors throughout the main level, a library lined with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, a three-car garage, and a landscaped backyard with a pool and alfresco dining areas.

The primary suite has a veranda, a fireplace, and a double walk-in closet setup. Three fireplaces total across the home.

Listing agent Tania Ferris of Coldwell Banker Realty describes it as a place Collins called home “through the defining chapters of his life and career.” That is not marketing language. It is accurate.

This is not a distressed sale or an inflated celebrity ask. Brentwood’s luxury market in 2026 sees most single-family activity between $3 million and $7 million, with days on market sitting around 70 days, up from 43 a year ago.

At $3.75 million for 5,000 square feet inside a guard-gated community near golf, tennis, and dining, this is priced within the neighborhood’s natural range.

Buyers here are professionals who know exactly what they are looking at. The community also borders country club facilities, which matters to a specific buyer profile that Mountaingate consistently attracts.

This kind of pricing decision shows up across celebrity real estate more than people realize. Josh Allen listed his $8.5 million California home right as his personal life shifted, and the timeline between a life event and a listing date is rarely accidental.

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Here is what most listing articles miss entirely.

As of 2026, no active male player in any of the four major American professional sports leagues is openly gay. Collins came out 13 years ago. Carl Nassib came out in 2021. Michael Sam was drafted by the NFL in 2014 and never played a regular-season game.

According to NPR’s reporting on LGBTQ representation in men’s professional sports, when Luke Prokop came out in 2021, he literally doubled the number of openly gay active male athletes across all four major leagues. The total was two.

Collins said he hoped his announcement would make it easier for the next person. Over a decade later, that door is still barely cracked.

This same feeling follows other high-profile estates. When Dolly Parton’s Solvang cottage sold weeks after her death, it carried exactly this weight: a transaction on paper, something entirely different in context.

And the Yellowstone co-creators listing their Malibu estate for $125K a month while their cultural footprint is still very much alive raises the same question: what do we do with the spaces that belonged to people who changed things?

The house in Brentwood is now a listing with an address and a price. What happened inside that story is something else.

What do you think should happen to a home like this once it sells? Should a new owner know the full history of who lived there, or does a house just start fresh with every deed? Drop your take in the comments.

Jason Collins raised his hand when no one else in professional sports would. He wore a jersey number to honor a murder victim. He made history in a sport that still has not fully caught up with what he did.

The Brentwood home is for sale. The story behind it deserves more than a listing sheet.

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