Mexico City / 05/06/2020 19:21:02
The documentary ‘The Last Dance‘continues to show unknown facets of Michael Jordan and its surroundings, because in addition to crumbling the last campaign of ‘His Majesty’ with the Chicago Bulls, too sets an eye on other controversies that arose in his career.
One of them, when Jordan himself organized a boycott against the brand Reebok during the award ceremony at the Barcelona Olympics 92, when several members of the Dream team They were dissatisfied with bearing the brand.
After beat Croatia in the final of the competition the dilemma arose for basketball playersbecause their trade agreements motivated them not to show up in a global stage with a different sponsor, so they put together the way to avoid it.
The 12 players (half of them had a contract with Nike) they unzipped their jackets so that the Reebok logo is covered, but if that were not enough, Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley and ‘Magic’ Johnson they put on a United States flag on the shoulder to make sure the patch was not seen at any time.
‘HARVEY SCHILLER, BUT WHAT AN IDIOT!’
As if that were not enough, the star of Chicago and MVP reigning back then, insulting Harvey Schiller, the reebok director, for forcing them to wear the clothing. “There will be no exceptions,” Schiller had mentioned a few days earlier.
“Some (players) say that will try to cover the Reebok logo, but they won’t be able to do it like I will, a damn surprise awaits themsays Jordan inside a car as they drive Barcelona.
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