LIKE. COMMENT. SUBSCRIBE. From S1.E6 of HBO's "Winning Time" the depiction of Magic Johnson's sneaker deal along with his meeting with Nike's Phil Knight.
Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley. But Magic and Larry Bird made Converse popular until the early 90’s. Nike became popular when the Bulls got their first three peat
At the time, Nike was a small unknown company in Portland. It was mainly an importer of shoes from Japan and just started creating their own shoes. It's not surprising that Magic passed on their offer. Converse was a much larger company at the time (funny enough, Nike would eventually acquire Converse.)
Yeah going with Converse back then was like going with Nike today. We would never think some other company would be bigger than Nike now, especially if you're going with a small start up vs an established company. Obviously though Magic wishes he had a time machine lol, but who knows, maybe Magic would have made Nike his shoe during the 80s and by the time Jordan came around he might look to sign with Adidas, you never know what kind of butterfly effect it would create if Magic had a time machine and could start over.
I read Shoe Dog by Phil Knight. I do not recall him mentioning Magic. He does say the first NBA player they went after hard was Jordan...and it paid off.
But if Magic did sign with Nike they might’ve never signed with Jordan because Nike might think that they found their signature athlete in Magic and Nike wouldn’t have been as popular and the stocks won’t be as much.
Magic spoke on this. He said the main reason he passed on Nike was because Phil was only offering him stock options and he had zero understanding how stocks worked. Meanwhile, Converse amd other companies were offering cash value contracts.
Aside from Magic getting HIV, the guy got fired from being a head coach and gm at the lakers. Guy was a great basketball player. But come on he was dumb on tv, also look up how he fire his flight attendant. You know that wasn’t cause he was late.
bums choose anything but nike and if you come talking to me with any of these other brands on your feet i ignore you adidas is for soccer and converse is dokie just in general argue if you want lmao but before you reply check your feet and closet and come correct . Side note if you also own under armor leave right now ...
