Trey Jemison Bought a Texas Home Right Before the NBA Finals Tipped Off

An undrafted kid from Birmingham, Alabama, who got cut five times and bounced through six teams in three years is now on an NBA Finals roster. And right in the middle of all that, he and his fiancee quietly closed on a home in Texas.

That detail alone tells you something. Not everyone who makes the Finals does it with a plan already in motion.

Jemison got there the hard way, and while the rest of the world was focused on the championship run, he was already thinking about what comes next.

And here is the part that makes it land differently: the Knicks are playing the 2026 NBA Finals against the San Antonio Spurs, a Texas team. Jemison just bought a home in the same state.

The Road Here Was Not Smooth

Trey Jemison III was born November 28, 1999, in Birmingham, Alabama. He went undrafted out of UAB in 2023.

From there, it was a grind through Washington, Memphis, New Orleans, and Los Angeles, all on short-term or two-way deals with zero job security.

In the G League with the Birmingham Squadron, he averaged 11.2 points, 11.6 rebounds, and 1.6 blocks per game.

Those numbers kept earning him another shot. He signed a two-way contract with the Knicks in September 2025 after being waived by the Lakers. The Knicks guaranteed that contract in January 2026.

Now he is on an NBA Finals roster for the first time. The Knicks are in the Finals for the first time since 1999. Both things felt equally unlikely a year ago. Both happened anyway.

What They Actually Bought and Why Texas Makes Sense

On March 20, Jemison and his fiancee Alex Jean Glover closed on a newly built home in the Dallas area, paying just over $880,000.

The property spans more than 4,000 square feet with five bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms, a game room, media room, two dining spaces, an enormous family room with vaulted ceilings, and a three-car garage on a half-acre lot.

The primary suite sits on the main floor with a soaking tub reportedly big enough for a 6-foot-10 center. The listing even described the media room as the perfect place to “watch the game,” which reads differently now that Glover has been doing exactly that from San Antonio.

According to Realtor.com’s coverage of the purchase, Glover announced the news on TikTok just days before the Finals began, dancing in front of the property with the caption: “This is gonna be the best summer yet.”

This Was Not a Spontaneous Decision

Glover works in Dallas as a volleyball color analyst for Dallas Pulse, a role she has held for two years. She is an SMU graduate. Texas was already her home base long before this purchase.

She explained it herself in a social media post: “It makes sense to have a home base somewhere where you actually want to live.” She also pointed out the tax advantage directly: “It helps if you play for a team like the Lakers or New York in terms of taxes, because you’re going to get taxed where your residency is.”

That is not a vague financial observation. That is a deliberate call. Jemison’s 2025-26 salary is $636,434 on a two-way deal. New York has a combined state and city income tax rate that can exceed 10.9%. Texas has zero state income tax. For a player at his contract level, the difference is real money that compounds every season.

This pattern shows up across all kinds of real estate decisions that look personal but have financial logic underneath. A 200-year-old NYC townhouse that just made real estate history is a reminder that timing, money, and personal meaning almost always arrive together in the same transaction.

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Why This Matters

Glover was clear that the Texas home will serve as their off-season base.

She noted that in professional sports, you never know where the next contract lands, so they chose to put down roots somewhere that made sense for their actual life, not just wherever the team happens to be.

That is the kind of thinking most coverage on player real estate never touches. The purchase is not about luxury. It is about building a foundation while the career is still uncertain.

According to the Texas Real Estate Research Center at Texas A&M, the statewide median home price is around $334,000 for 2026 with over 10 months of active inventory and homes averaging 82 days on the market.

They bought in one of the most favorable buyer conditions Texas has seen in years.

Behind every purchase like this, there is always more than the number. Byron Allen paid $91 million for an Aspen mountain home where the story behind the deal was just as significant as the price.

Even something like this Palm Springs mansion built to hide mob secrets, listed at $6.8 million, shows that real estate always carries more context than what appears in the listing.

Jemison’s $880,000 Texas home is the same idea. Small number by celebrity real estate standards. Big statement by everything else.

Key Takeaways

• Jemison and Glover closed on a Dallas-area home on March 20 for just over $880,000
• The property is newly built with 5 bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms, and over 4,000 square feet
• Glover works in Dallas as a volleyball analyst for Dallas Pulse and is an SMU graduate
• The couple plans to use it as their primary off-season base
• Texas has zero state income tax, a direct financial advantage Glover confirmed publicly
• Jemison’s 2025-26 salary is $636,434 on a two-way contract guaranteed in January 2026
• He becomes a restricted free agent at the end of this season
• Glover attended Game 1 of the NBA Finals in San Antonio, roughly 4 hours from their new home

What do you think: is planting roots in a no-income-tax state the smartest move a player can make when the contract future is still uncertain?

Or would you have waited until after free agency? Drop your take in the comments. Genuinely curious how people are reading this one.

Wrapping Up

On paper, this is a couple buying a house. Five bedrooms, half an acre, Dallas suburbs, done.

But when you pull back, it is an undrafted center who scratched through six teams, got guaranteed money for the first time in January, and immediately started building something permanent.

While the rest of the world was watching him make the Finals, he and his fiancee were already thinking about the summer after.

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