Real estate slam-dunk

NEW York Knicks legend Allan Houston’s lavish Westchester estate — which features a custom-designed cherry-wood basketball court — is about to hit the market for sale for just under $20 million. The nearly 20,000square-foot French revival home has 26 rooms, seven bedrooms and 10 marble bathrooms, all on 10 acres on Converse Lake. It also boasts a music room with a domed, gilded ceiling, a movie theater, a huge great room and an “architecturally significant trophy room,” according to the listing. Houston, currently the assistant general manager for the New York Knicks, won gold in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, and appears to have packed the trophy case with memorabilia. There’s also a fitness center, marbleclad steam room (with “H” monogrammed in tiles), a heated outdoor pool and a golf putting green. It is located in Conyers Farm, a private gated community bordering Greenwich, Conn., and Armonk, NY, developed by billionaire Peter Brant. Other residents include Netscape founder Jim

Clark, Richard Baker of Hudson’s Bay Co. and Thomas Peterffy of Interactive Brokers Group. The Greenwich Polo Club is also located on Conyers Farm. Houston’s estate had been on the market a few years ago, then was removed from sale, but is now being relisted. Sources say Houston, who played for the Knicks for nine years and has seven children with wife Tamara, is looking for a place in Manhattan. We’re told that even though the home is 50 minutes from NYC, Houston wants to be closer to the team and spend less time traveling and more time with his kids. Listing brokers Dolly Lenz Real Estate couldn’t be reached.