And see it I did.
And you know what?
Those people were right.
Bateman killed as marketing executive Rob Strasser, per usual, because thats what Bateman does.
Its only like an hour and a half long, its quick and worth it I promise.
And
2- was the speech Damon gave in the movie factual?
Or was that just Hollywood?
Just an AWESOME delivery for any Jordan fanatic to hear.
Come to find out, it actually happened like that.
How accurate was this scene?
What everyone from Amazon is telling me is my speech was one of the most popular in the movie.
There was two of them Viola [Davis, who played Deloris Jordan] and mine.
Everything I did, I had permission to do.
I stopped the meeting to say all of those things.
Pretty amazing when you think of it.
And his mother, by all accounts, was no joke.
In all honesty, I never wore Nike shoes until I signed with Nike.
I was a big Adidas, Converse guy coming out of college.
Prior to all of that, Sonny (Vaccaro) likes to take the credit.
But it really wasnt Sonny, it was actually George Raveling.
George Raveling was with me on the 1984 Olympics team (as an assistant coach under Bob Knight).
Youve got to try.
He shared how he developed a special bond with Mike at the Team USA practices.
We had a long training camp.
The meeting with Sonny didnt go as well as it could have.
However, George says he told Nike to keep pursuing MJ.
He credited their ability to get MJ to the campus for a meeting, along with his parents.
So revisionist history definitely muddied the waters on the true story.
Phil Knights lying, Michaels lying more than Phil and Raveling is insane.
All three of them need to destroy me to live happily ever after.
Everyones trying to rewrite history.
It goes beyond Jordan.
I am the savior of Nike.
Knight and Nike hired Vaccaro in 1977, to help lead the brand into college basketball.
Which Vaccaro did, and did well, getting 80 coaches to make their athletes wear Nike.
They wanted my opinion and I won the meeting.
I just had a hunch.
I cant even explain why he was the hunch.
Yours, theirs, and the truth.
None of this takes away from the movie being great.
Raveling is a history nut, and some of his most prized possessions are seriously incredible.
Talking Smithsonian museum level pieces.
And he turned and handed it to me.
Why did he ask for it?
I would love to come up with some really exotic answer.
People ask me time and time again.
It was just impulse, Raveling said.
I have no idea why I did it.
