The N.B.A.’s regular season ended Wednesday night. Now wheeled migration can begin.
Most professional basketball players do not have permanent homes in the cities where their teams play, so for those not headed to the playoffs, the mission is to get their luxury vehicles shipped home safely — across the country, or even across the world.
Bentleys, Cadillac Escalades and Range Rovers will be crisscrossing the country, aboard car carriers or driven by friends and family of the players, many of whom have a renowned affinity for expensive and elaborately customized vehicles.
“I would say 9 out of 10 guys don’t live in the actual city that they play in, so you’ve got to ship your cars,” said Keyon Dooling, a guard with the Nets who is headed home to Fort Lauderdale, Fla. “You’re not going to drive it halfway across the country and put all those miles on it.”
N.B.A. teams do not handle vehicle relocation for players at the end of the season. Most basketball players, like their counterparts in other American sports leagues, arrange the end-of-season moves themselves, or enlist their agents.
The Charlotte Bobcats knew for about a week that their season would end Wednesday, enabling Raja Bell, a Bobcats guard, to make plans. A driver for a transport service was scheduled to arrive Thursday at Bell’s house in Charlotte, on the way from Owosso, Mich., to collect two of his vehicles. Bell will rent a car for his trip to the airport and expects to be reunited soon with his vehicles at his Miami home.
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