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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Marina Hyde

Basketball star Nick Young: a player who loves shoe business

Just two of Nick Young's vast shoe collection.
Just two of Nick Young's vast shoe collection. Photograph: Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images

Enormous thanks to Sports Illustrated, which carries a riotous profile of Lakers star Nick Young in its current issue.

Nick, otherwise known as Swaggy P, has also set up home with Iggy Azalea, and it is to this temple to Proper Celebrity Behaviour that we turn our attentions today.

“The property,” we are informed, “comes with a detached building that Young is converting into a “shoe house”. He employs not one but two “shoe keepers”, who oversee his 500-plus pairs of sneakers …”

Your move, Mariah.

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