‘Air’ hero Sonny Vaccaro coaxed Nike into believing in Michael Jordan

NEW YORK – The hero of the new movie “Air,” released this week in the United States, is Sonny Vaccaro, a Nike employee who saw in a young Michael Jordan what “no one else had seen” and convinced the shoe brand to forge a revolutionary partnership. During a 1984 meeting at Nike headquarters, Vaccaro proposed […]

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