J.R. Smith to open sneaker store in hometown

"The Summer of Swish" has been quite good to Cleveland Cavaliers guard J.R. Smith, who not only won an NBA championship in June and famously partied without his shirt on, but also married his longtime love, Jewel Harris.

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His next endeavor will take him into the world of shoes and apparel, as Smith will be opening up a Team Swish lifestyle/sneaker store in his hometown of Millstone Township, N.J. at the end of the month, which he told Jared Zwerling from NBPA.com.

"Ever since I was a kid, I always dreamed of having my own sneaker store," Smith said. "When I was growing up, this was when Michael Jordan was in the prime of everything. So a fresh pair of kicks was always everything. No matter what else you had on, if you had a fresh pair of sneakers on, you were always the freshest guy in school - no matter what your pants looked like, no matter what your shirt looked like, hat, whatever. It was always about the shoes, so I got attached extremely early.

The timing couldn't have been more perfect for Smith's father, Earl, who had been working on the store for quite some time.

"The store is very special," Earl said. "It’s a long time coming. It’s been 15 years since I’ve been working on this project here. And then with J.R. winning a championship, everything came full circle."