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Inside the clandestine Sonny Vaccaro-Michael Jordan meeting that changed Nike and sports forever


My first introduction to took place in Los Angeles just before the 1984 Summer Olympics during the pre-Olympic training camp. The U.S. men’s team was practicing on the West Coast at the time, and it couldn’t have been more than a week or 10 days from their first game against China on July 29 at the Forum in Inglewood. (New York Post)

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Inside the clandestine Sonny Vaccaro-Michael Jordan meeting that changed Nike and sports forever


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