Inside the clandestine Sonny Vaccaro-Michael Jordan meeting that changed Nike and sports forever Posted Mar 29, 2025 My first introduction to Michael Jordan 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)