“Sonny didn’t influence me to go to Nike”: Michael Jordan criticized the movie “Air” because according to him the story is not entirely true despite the positive comments on the film

“Air” is one of movies the most anticipated this year, direction Ben Affleckthe film follows the story of how Nike ended by signing Michael Jordan and the creation of a line of shoes that bears his name.

Now a star basketball and probably one of the best players the story of the film, the web portal Fayer Wayer reports.

Michael Jordan spoke about the history of the movie “Air”

With participation Matt Damon and Affleck himself, the film has already begun to receive strong praise from critics, who confirm that it could be one of the most important films for Hollywood this year.

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The film closely follows John Paul Vincent “Sonny” Vaccaro, who is tasked with convincing Michael Jordan and his familymainly his parents, to sign with Nike and be the first player to have a shoe model designed for him.

Vaccaro is a mainstay of Nike, and is also known for scouting basketball stars like Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant.

Although the film presents this as his story, the six-time winner NBA He’s spoken before and said Sonny didn’t push him to sign with Nike: “Sonny likes to take credit,” Jordan said in interview with the middle USA today in 2015.

“But it wasn’t Sonny, it was George Raveling. George Raveling was on the team with me in the 1984 Olympics. He always tried to talk to me: ‘You have to go to Nike, you have to go to Nike. You have to try Nike’. Sonny didn’t influence me to go to Nike,” Jordan added in the interview.

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It’s quite common for movies not to bring the facts to the screen in a 100% real way, especially in stories like this, since there’s always more than one version of what happened and, as Jordan himself said, it wasn’t Sonny, it was about the director of Nike also spoke.

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Phil Knight, the Nike CEO played by Affleck said on the subject: “A lot of people want to take credit for signing Michael Jordan, especially Sonny Vaccaro. He said on ESPN that he is the key to things. Sonny helped, but he wasn’t MVP in the process,” he concluded on the subject. (AND)