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In an interview with Joe Johnson in June, I learned that the NBA star has a shark tank in his condominium in downtown Little Rock. The latest ESPN The Magazine offers another domestic peculiarity about the hoops star. In a feature called “What’s in my closet,” Johnson reveals that he has a 500-square-foot closet, accessible only by using a fingerprint sensor, that houses 436 pairs of sneakers, mostly Air Jordans.

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They’re mostly unworn, he told ESPN. “I’ll wear them all eventually.”

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