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Where's the beef?

Doing.

There is an.

Yeah.

Brandon, unfunny, but hero.

I'm with Mike.

It's good to see you.

I'll come down and say hello.

Hey, Terence, How are you?

Yeah, yeah, they're looking really good.

I mean, everybody's going to watch.

You're not going to have a problem.

You're going to get a scholarship.

That's going to happen, right?

OK.

Just don't forget about Nike.

Well, I'll see you guys at Regionals in two weeks.

Yeah.

All right.

All right.

Great game, guys.

All right, game five tonight, 6 Pats, $100 each.

Magic Johnson under on points.

Over on assists.

James Worthy over on points.

Bob McAdoo over on points.

Dennis Johnson over on points.

What's the over under on Rambus?

Just take the under.

One more, one more.

Lakers under third quarter.

There you go.

In the World Championship Series,

thank you for handling at the dunes the hotel, casino

and Country Club.

Press the 48, look for the hardware.

Nice work.

Guys are off war.

Right there.

Yeah, 1400.

Good luck, Mr.

Lee.

Let it go.

I know.

You are someone's son.

Why you breathing heavy?

Ohh, you still can't shoot with a damn another brick.

What about my players?

I'm trying.

I'm trying.

I mean, I could just can't figure out

what these kids want to take less money to sign

for a rival shoe company?

Why would kids from Baltimore want to wear German soccer shoes?

Hot right now, Amanda.

Rappers away and then the video.

The break dancers or break dance up in the front,

still on the floor breaking ankles.

The tables for no reason.

And these kids ain't cool unless they got to be this on.

And it was a bad ass job to suit you.

You got it in me.

We can't touch their jogging suits.

I got my cousin in South Korea.

Don't send me two knockoffs.

I wear them on the weekends.

I wear my beer.

But it's wrong with Nike.

Nike jogging competent.

They're black people.

Don't jog.

You ain't gonna catch no black person running 26 miles

for no damn reason.

Then the cop.

They pull over like, you know, stole some

because these kids are talking about Isaiah

and magic.

They don't get there by Bruce Jenner throwing a Frisbee

around in a damn decathlon

and

people don't know what the hell of Nike is,

what's a Converse NBA All Star shoe play

like magic dribble like Isaiah.

That's what it is.

Maybe you know running MC doing a song

about Adidas

who run the MC making a free song

coming out on their next album out Adidas.

Who's doing it?

See that?

Tell me something right there.

Saying, hey, when you sign Moses, how did you do it?

Mary Malone, His Mama.

She thought the world on me.

But you know, I always go through the mothers, man.

The mothers run stuff, especially in black families.

And we need some more players.

Sonny, you got to give me somebody else.

We got Moses.

I know we got Moses, man.

I was up in the club with him 3:00 o'clock in the morning last night,

trying to get him

out there because he got 5:00 o'clock practise.

I told I said OK, who with the owls all night

and fly with the Eagles in the morning.

Do I know you can't do what I do?

You can hardly do what the hell you supposed to do.

Hey, one more chance.

You want that added suit from South Korea?

Feel better not come up talking about no damn,

where's your ideas to?

I need my jobs and you don't play.

That's shit.

I'm like, he hit one shot in 30 minutes.

Let's get out of here.

I gotta just stop by my office, you know, back in.

My knees are messing up now, he said.

Look at these damn pulses down here.

They get upstairs in the running department,

got Picasso and we got cartoons down here.

Damn.

You know, I I like the that new slogan,

the one for the whole company that they're talking

about.

I don't like it.

What?

You know where it came from.

But damn slogan came from a convict

about to get executed in front of a firing squad,

They asked him.

What's your last words?

Let's do it, yeah.

That's where that comes from, yeah.

Bullshit, Dan Wedding told me.

Man.

He got no reason to lie to me.

Kind of a fitting metaphor for the way basketball is needed.

This company.

I know Nike.

Just get this shit over with.

What did it say about me that I liked it?

That's it.

You fat middle-aged white guy that don't want to exercise.

That's fair.

So Mr Orwell was right.

1984 has been a tough year.

Sales are down, Our growth is down.

But this company is about who we really are

when we are down for the count.

My right, huh.

When you're down on the canvas, bang, we pop right back up.

Like Balboa.

We got the eye of the tiger.

We're not gonna go down to Mr.

T Pity the fool.

Here we go.

Elijah on off the table.

Number one pick is not going to be wearing our shoe.

Sam Bowie picked by our local pro franchise at #2,

he's going to go to conference.

And at #3, Jordan going to Adidas.

Can't afford it.

Perkins.

Who knows.

Sweet gap though, huh?

Nice teeth.

And what we're going to do is we're going to focus on three names

between pick five and

pick.

20 Alright, let's just let's toss out some ideas.

What are we thinking?

What looks good?

Yeah.

Lots to choose from.

Don't rush into any thoughts.

Come on, fellas.

What about Lancaster, Gordon, anybody?

Louisville.

Louisville.

He went to Louisville.

Bill, that is correct.

I wrote it right there.

How about what do you think about Charles Barkley?

The round mound rebound could be a little bit of a reach for us

at pick 5 clubhouse issues.

Clubhouse issues.

What does that mean?

Trash talk?

Nobody wants to see Barclay on TV.

Does anybody hear me?

If I'm down in the Valley singing the song of a man

they call Terrence T-bone Stansbury?

I don't think they call him that.

Well, we could if he wears Nikes.

Think about it.

What about this fella, Vern Fleming?

Tough name.

Good Jay.

I like Melvin Turpin.

Melvin Turpin.

Thank you, Bill on the board.

What about John Stockton?

He's scrappy, just like us.

Gonzaga.

Sure.

What's that?

Vocational school.

What do you like about Melvin Turpin?

Mel Turpin, what do you like about his game?

Go Bill, you made the Final Four last year,

what sorted 40 other guys?

He's the 5th or 6th pick in the Draught.

Have you watched him play?

Yeah.

What?

What do you like about his game?

He's got great.

Ports, thinks he's a he's got good vision.

He had 33 assists last season.

I like his play.

I liked the guy.

I know

he's going to be a good player in Europe in four years

when he's out of the league.

OK, You like Mel Derp because he's a six pick in the Draught.

Nobody's gonna give you shit

for saying you like the six pick in the Draught.

Yeah, I'm just.

I'm so fucking asshole.

So you're not an asshole.

He's got great vision.

Sonny's trying for it, though.

Here we go.

Anybody else?

I got a ship.

Throughout

my sunny, we're honestly, What the fuck is your problem?

Who are we going to get?

You tell me Phil brought you here

because you're the Mr Miyagi of high school basketball.

You not supposed to lecture people.

You're supposed to tell us who's going to paint the fence.

I like Barkley.

That's fucking dumbest thing I have ever heard in that room.

You didn't think it was relevant to chime

in to support what happened in there.

Bullshit of telling you now?

I'm not.

I'm not going to say it in the meeting.

Well, listen, people are afraid to.

Speaking there.

Why?

Because you spent 1/2 hour berating them no matter what they said?

I just have no tolerance for people who have no insight,

fucking do no work

and then

act like they got a seat at the table.

And Mel Turpin would be better off signing my mom.

Not available.

Well, even if she were alive, we can't afford it.

Before my mom's club out dishes.

Listen, we got 250K for three names.

This is where you come up with a brilliant idea

that no one else can see.

Let's hear it.

That's not brilliant, OK?

That's what happens when things just successful.

What's happening right now is failure.

And if it continues that way,

Nike is going to be out of the basketball business

and

we're going to be out of the job.

Good player.

Great, good players.

Barkley.

Four.

I really like Stockton.

You didn't know where Gonzaga is.

I didn't say it's ideal.

OK, it's a name.

Is better than what you probably OK, Yeah, Rob.

What about Jordan?

Ohh.

Something we can't get.

OK, I'll listen to fall for three hours.

He's too expensive.

Sorry, Sir.

Hello.

Hi, Richard.

Yep.

Hi.

Hi, Richard.

I'd love to get some time on your calendar.

OK.

That sounds fun.

Roger.

That will do, Roger.

Thank you.

Richard.

Yeah, Yeah.

That's what that was.

OK.

Thanks, Richard.

Bye.

You know, there.

Thank you.

They're there.

Used to be a time when I could name everybody worked here.

Things changed.

Places grow.

That's true.

Hey, you want some dessert?

Hi.

A meeting with who

we shoe dog.

Hey, Sonny.

Picture.

So he's coming.

Honey, I'm missing the Sunday bar, Phil.

What do you think this guy is?

Skateboarding to work?

We're a public company, is now in court.

Probably just some kid.

There's 50 years old and he's beard.

That's what Pete

I would Pete skateboard to work.

Maybe he's having a life crisis.

Really scratch my car.

17 layers of paint achieve their precise colour of purple.

They call it grave, which sounds

kind of pedestrian was pretty.

How's the strategy?

Disaster.

Wonderful.

What's the plan?

Because the way our tiny allocation on 3 mediocre players again,

Tony, we had an annual

loss.

I had to lay off 1/4 of the fucking company,

OK, I know, Phil, do you do you know the

whole basketball divisions on the chopping block

at the board

wants me to fire everybody.

And I can't guarantee

without some improvement

that's not going to happen at the next

board meeting.

But we need to increase spending.

I brought you in here.

To grow the basketball business,

it's it's smaller now it's Strasser's number right 250K?

Yeah.

What about 500?

No, you're lucky to have 250K to fight for that.

Have the running shoes in the country that are sold last year were Nikes.

It's 900 million in revenue.

You want to spend 250K on basketball?

You know, they're telling the board.

There were potentially 1,000,000 customers

for basketball shoes in the United States

who would wear those shoes only when they're playing basketball.

They're wondering if any investment

is worth the potential upside

if a board member said

it the board.

Basketball is the future.

The NBA Finals are on tape delay.

People watch basketball.

You know, we took four goals at the Olympics

and nobody gives a fight.

We dominate the running shoe market,

sunny 200,000,000 running shoes,

because that's

what people do.

They run and when they walk, they were running shoes.

And when they go to the store,

they wear running shoes and they go to work.

They wear running shoes.

That's what they do.

People are starting to ask me what you do here.

You know what I do here?

I I know you.

I know you go to a lot of high school basketball tournaments

and usually with a layover

in Vegas.

And I I I'm told that you're a basketball guru

or wizard

or It's hard to quantify that

to a board.

You know what I do here?

You're losing.

Sorry.

Yeah.

Just because you lose it doesn't mean it wasn't a good bet.

This perfect results.

It's not bullshit.

It is bullshit.

Those are the central principles

that built this into a billion dollar business.

I can't win if you don't give me a bankroll.

You have to be accountable.

You're accountable.

I'm accountable to the board that I told you not to go public.

You get tight.

You change this.

All the companies are taking care about it,

the P&L statement and keeping the board happy.

Do you run?

Is this going to be the same Buddhist aphorism I don't want to hear?

Do you rump?

No, Phil, I don't.

It's hard.

As suffering, it's difficult.

The illusion is that the finish line is the destination.

The act itself is the destination.

I need $500,000.

Mr Knight, you 1:00 PM.

OK, so.

When you find a wise critic who will point out your thoughts,

follow him as you would

a map to a hidden treasure.

And there it is.

Ohh St and Smith basketball fan,

you want to buy it?

No, no, I read that one already.

OK.

I'll buy this one though, OK?

What do you think of the the Blazers draught pick

boy?

Yeah, I mean, it's not a game, but I like him,

You know, I'm mad about Jordan.

A guard?

Hell, no.

I mean, he's averaging for 17 points,

which is like 10 in the NBA.

Even the Bulls.

James said that he wasn't going to change the chamber.

That wasn't going to dominate it.

Yeah, I read that and hit that one shot to win the title game

in the college championship.

He probably would have never without high in the drawer.

It's too small to be as good in the NBA as he was in college.

It seemed like a true fan.

No, no, man.

I love playing ball.

There you go.

Have a great night.

You too.

Hey, you know where Gonzaga is?

Spokane, WA.

Started too short, too.

Have a good night.

You too, man.

Michael Cooper, the Los Angeles Lakers forward, is our guest.

We're going to come back just a few moments,

talk about his artistry.

How many flies through the air with the greatest of ease?

This is the rag and I won them a little bit

and you could have bought it really.

You see the ash come to rock

and I use comes right off the production line

and I don't

customise my racket because the ash come too

is just the way I want it,

just the way

it is and it should be.

Head and I have worked together since 1969,

putting it all the special features we thought

important.

So this particular head racket

could have gone to you as easily as to me.

We planned it that way.

August 22nd, 24th Michael Cooper, among other lenders,

has suffered chances for the country.

I got it.

And you tend to get.

I need you to treat the Sunny.

I'm going to be done in 5 minutes and you're done now.

You guys are busy.

Richard, it's fine.

Richard, I'm sorry.

OK.

Thank you.

You know, Sunny in business,

there's a way in which we conduct ourselves.

I found them.

Who's that?

Sit down,

OK?

Lynnwood Robinson, That didn't mean anything to you.

You know, great recruit.

Everybody was.

North Carolina got him.

He actually announced his decision to go there the same day

that Michael Jordan did.

He was actually bigger News in The Charlotte Observer

got a bigger headline Within two

years.

Lynnwood Robinson.

Transfers.

Adulation state.

Nobody heard about him again.

Now watch.

This is the 1982 championship.

The shot that Jordan makes.

Everyone seen this.

No, we've been looking at it.

Wrong Watch.

Here's James Worthy.

OK, number one in his Draught class.

Another guy we had no chance of signing, Correct.

Why isn't he getting the ball?

They're down by 1.

There's under a half a minute to go.

Why isn't a superstar getting the ball?

Why is the ball going to the 18 year

old skinny freshman from Wilmington, NC?

They probably drew up the play for Worthy and Jordan

was an option in case Worthy was

covered.

No, that's wrong.

Worthy is a decoy.

We've been looking at this wrong look.

He knows he's not getting the ball.

They're in a 131 zone.

that zone is going to

collapse on him,

leaving Michael Jordan open in the corner

and the ball is going to go

to him and he's going to shoot it.

But when he shoots and he shoots it right away,

he knows he's getting the ball to play,

is drawn up for Jordan and now that you know that.

Watch Jordan.

You feel like your plane is on its final descent,

or you just circling.

Look at him.

Look at how relaxed he is.

But he wants the ball.

He's calling for the ball.

The whole world is watching him.

He's 18 years old.

He's 3 seconds away from the biggest shot of his life

and the biggest shot of Dean Smith's

life.

Remember the knock on Dean Smith?

He couldn't win the big one.

He'd been there three times, couldn't get it done.

This is his fourth and maybe his last time.

Dean Smith didn't even start freshman.

Michael's only the 3rd freshman to start for the guy,

and what does he do?

He puts the ball in the hands of an 18 year old freshman.

Why?

Because Dean sees the same thing that I see.

The same thing that Linwood Robinson saw

greatness.

I don't want to sign three players.

I want to sign one.

I'm going to sign him.

We build a shoe line around just him.

We tap into something deeper into the players identity, into that.

What's that mean?

He doesn't wear the shoe?

He is the shoe.

The shoe is him.

We want to anthropomorphize the shoe,

put little legs and arms on it.

Have you seen the Arthur Ashe commercial?

The.

This is the racket that I won Wimbledon with.

That you could have bought it.

We do that, but with a shoe.

I'm going to blow a quick 20 right here.

OK.

It's gonna cost too much money.

No, not if we bet it all on one guy.

Too risky.

You want the whole budget.

Whole budget.

Can't do that.

We're going to spread it across three or four players.

I've said that we have 250 K We can get them for 250K.

Guess who else has 250K?

Adidas has 250K too.

OK, so even if we were to offer him $250,000,

Adidas would be able to match it.

While all our other prospects have signed with other teams,

plus Jordan has made it abundantly,

clear, painfully clear,

that he doesn't want to come here,

so you would have to have

a pretty compelling pitch.

Do you have that?

Yeah, I can tell him the one thing the other companies can't compete with.

Our basketball division is fucking terrible.

I do not love it.

You think they're gonna go for that?

But you like the idea, right?

Yeah.

Idea of Michael Jordan.

Yeah.

Would you go over

budget?

As in nobody else getting no money?

Phil is going to fire you.

I can handle Phil.

The key to fill is make him afraid he'll get a boat there by.

We all got $100 million in a life Supply.

Them damn pink nut hugging jogging shots.

The hell is he afraid of?

Let's say you get filled.

How to heal.

You're gonna get Michael.

Michael is an Adidas guy.

He loves Adidas.

That's all he wear.

The badass, warm up suit, shell toe.

Michael don't want to come to Nike.

Back in that damn guy sending the bride pass.

Well, I'll deal with that after I deal with Phil.

Feeling going to do it, but you like the idea, right?

I'd like to sign joy.

What I don't know is what his ageing going to ask for.

Sunny, Sunny, sunny.

Good morning, folk.

Good afternoon.

For those of us in the real world.

What's new in the Wilds of Oregon?

Your Nikes getting out of the basketball business?

Who tells you that?

You know, I have.

Clients and other sports.

I just signed Boomer Sizing.

Great looking kid.

And Boomer.

It's interesting because what Boomer does, he did it.

I don't give a fuck.

I'm calling about

Michael Jordan, I told Strasser months ago.

It's never going to happen.

Well, you've never talked to me.

I'm doing you a favour.

Michael's not even taking a meeting with you.

What do you mean a meeting group of two,

maybe four or five executives in the room.

They hear a pitch from a company.

It's common business practise.

Michael's not going to be doing it at night.

Don't fuck with me.

Fall.

Come on.

What are the bids looking like?

How about the money?

When someone says it's not about the money,

I know for sure it's about the money.

We decided to stretch the envelope.

We want to hear what each company can do to promote Michael.

OK, well then we're thinking along the same lines.

That's why I want to have a meeting so any world class players

don't wear 3rd grade shoes.

Just get me in the room.

Frantic, so waste of time off the record,

even though you wouldn't see,

was a conference

call.

Michael Ward did this during practise.

But on Congress, right before the game started,

the second the final buzzer sounded,

Adidas back on the bullshit asking.

You said it was off the record.

I didn't say it To tell him.

What?

You heard it.

Trust me.

Converse knows it too.

I've already seen Adidas mock up.

Presentation.

3 words.

state-of-the-art.

That's four.

You're a stalking horse at best.

And a slow, fat stalking horse.

So you're not even credible.

You know he'll be miserable at Adidas.

I mean, it's a shit show over there since Adolf died.

Addy.

Sunny.

He went by Addy.

His name.

The guy's name was literally Adopt.

It was a good man.

He kept the name.

It's Addie.

Addie Dosser.

Addy Doss.

Adidas.

He was in the Hitler Youth.

No, he wasn't.

Don't say that.

A picture of him personally wearing a swastika.

The guy had the haircut.

We all have a past, David.

Some of us have our past

and some of us were Nazis.

And there's a line.

Well, he's dead.

Or meeting with the whole family.

When's the meeting?

Jordan's going to Boston on Thursday as Commerce

and then Nuremberg for Adidas on Saturday.

And then we're gonna close Nuremberg.

Would you cut the shit?

It's close to, it's near there.

They want to close as the point.

What are they offering?

I don't see a world where itself at 2:50.

No fucking way.

Let me explain.

No, listen, Michael Jordan is the player we've been waiting for.

Yeah, but you said the same thing about our score last year, Jones.

Well, it's perfection.

Is the goal that I'm doomed, right?

I mean, I'm not going to hit every shot.

How about one shot a shot?

Ever?

It's part of gambling, Phil.

You don't win every hand.

This isn't a craps table.

And we don't have unlimited cheques.

I'm not asking for unlimited.

I'm asking for what you already budgeted on one player.

Yes.

Don't confuse desperation.

Visions.

We're actually going to need more than that for a rookie

who's never set foot on an NBA

court.

If that's the literal definition of rookie,

yeah, Magic Johnson doesn't have our shoe.

Exactly.

I can't justify that to the board,

so there's no point having this discussion.

Let me put it to you this way.

I'm willing to bet my career.

I'm Michael Jordan.

Come on, man.

You asked me what I do here.

This is what I do.

I find you players and I fucking feel at this time.

OK.

It's risky.

When you were selling sneakers out of the back of your Plymouth,

that was risky.

It took balls.

I mean, that's why we're all here.

Don't change that now.

I mean, if you look at them,

if you really look at Jordans like I did,

you're going to

see exactly what I see.

This is what the most competitive guy I have ever seen.

He is a fucking killer.

It was a competition.

Well, it doesn't.

Doors.

At my page all the people.

I know the last thing any of us want to talk about today is business.

I I can't imagine the grief

guys, Audie would say.

He must go on.

He did say that we have a great opportunity for Adidas America.

Very good.

We already got the number one pick.

Who's next on the hit list?

School board.

What the fuck guys weren't?

Can we even get meeting?

Rob?

Phil, you're signing off on this?

No, it's a stupid fucking idea, I said.

Can we get a meeting?

I'll call Falk, submit an offer and we can talk.

Meeting.

I can't do that.

Then I have no responsibility to inform my client.

250,000 is what you can expect I needed in writing.

When the offer comes, it'll be in writing.

I look forward to seeing that.

I can't wait to wait six hours flying out there.

Why can't you get a base on the East Coast

like a normal company?

They love it out of here.

I'm glad they're happy.

Hey, how are the parents?

Smart as hell or pony bullshit on They want to be sold to?

Yeah.

Are they home now in Carolina?

Don't call them, OK?

I'm not fucking kidding.

They'd be inappropriate and unprofessional.

So is outright refusing a meeting.

That's just business.

Why is Michael want Adidas?

Because he likes their track suits.

Get them every tracksuit he's ever wanted.

He's a kid.

He's not thinking about what he will have.

He's thinking about what he doesn't have right now.

You know what else he wants?

What Car?

Red Mercedes 380SL.

But fortunately he's got an extremely savvy advisor,

thinks long term, you know, really

your humility, David, which is so impressive.

You know what I think?

You don't have authorization to make a written offer.

Unless I see an offer in writing,

I have no obligation to inform my client.

David, don't so I can hang.

Sam, hey, get me a ticket to LA Plane ticket.

Leave it at the gate.

Ohh hey out.

I'm not going to make the meeting tomorrow morning.

I got to go to LA and see George Driver.

Who?

How did you get a job in the basketball division?

George Ravelling coach of the Olympics.

Iowa Best man at my wedding.

Jesus.

Yeah.

It's it's it's ridiculous.

I try.

I try to put the word in for you guys during the Olympics.

Just don't know.

I appreciate it, man.

Michael's not coming in like he doesn't even want to meet.

You know, I I believe me, I I told them multiple times.

And we got along, he just.

Doesn't like the shoe.

Remember more of the shows?

He did say if somebody was to buy him a red Mercedes 380SL

he would sign a shoe contract

for life with anybody.

Except Nike.

There's nothing cool about Nike, even what it means.

Adidas.

All day I dream about sex.

Puma, please use my ass.

Nike has no no meaning.

How are the parents?

So she wants it,

really.

So maybe I should talk to her.

Hey.

You bypass the agents and talk directly to the family,

You're gonna lose your job.

One.

What's wrong with me doing this 20 years?

I've never had a feeling like this.

You know, you get a feeling, you know, Yeah, you know what?

Don't lose that.

Remember, I get fired.

Summer 1963.

A friend of my father's asked me and his son

to come down to a marching town.

Now, mind you.

I have a full scholarship at Villanova, right?

But I got this feeling.

Don't know why.

So I go,

I get down there, I went to organise

and see 264 black kids

and they're like, oh, do

you guys want to help with security?

So now what?

A fruit Tesla.

Take us down there,

they throw us up on stage right on the podium.

This cameras one of the boosters has to be a claim number I you know.

With this voice kept telling me I should stay

and I'm there five hours

and I'm just sweating

like, oh, and then I saw the last speaker of speech.

We walked off stage.

I said to him, I said, Hey.

That was the best speech I ever heard.

He said.

Thank you, young man.

He takes his speech, he folds it up and he puts it in my pocket.

Later, I'm looking for my favourite line.

It's not in there.

Then I notice the whole second-half of this speech is completely different.

What was the line you were looking for?

I have a dream.

Come on, get the fuck out of here.

The I haven't.

You have that?

No.

See, the first half he noticed the audience wasn't with him.

And he changed the whole thing,

made the whole speech up right there on the spot.

Wow.

So are you saying I should contact the Jordans and fuck no,

just fucking said.

That's your voice.

Your voice tells you to do stupid shit.

My voice made me a part of history.

You have a speech.

That's right.

I also have Abe Lincoln's.

Are you doing security for that one?

Ohh fucking that old.

Jenny.

Looking all over for you, obviously.

See you may have a cup of coffee.

I'm thinking of reaching out to the parents.

But you have joined parents, yeah?

Son.

And there's some You take light in there, you go around folk.

You better close.

Listen.

You made me believe me, you you started to Dapper Dan tournament.

You got them all there, the greatest high school

players in the country.

You might have forgot about this, but I was invited.

Best day of my life.

You know, blew out my damn meal.

They don't matter about what feels, thinking or anybody's thinking.

Auto matters is how much do you believe?

I believe in.

You know, I was actually expecting you to try to talk me out of it.

You will listen anyway, but if you get fired,

I got a one bedroom private.

Ain't got no more room for nobody.

You got 2 rags, 1 tower.

So like that.

Yeah.

Where where is he?

He didn't come in.

Is he sick?

I'm not actually his secretary.

He doesn't have a secretary.

Where is he?

Hello, John.

Hey, where the hell are you?

North Carolina.

God damn it, Sonny, what happened to a phone call?

I'm calling you now.

The rental car has a phone in it.

It's not me, the parents.

It would have been unprofessional for me to just call them up.

Front door.

Look, if anybody back there asking where I am,

just tell him I'm sick.

You got it.

You're sick in the head.

Excuse me?

Excuse me, Sir.

Can I help you?

Yeah, I'm looking for the Jordans.

Well.

You're in the right place, right You Mr Jordan James,

Sunny Vaquero.

I'm with Nike.

And here we go.

Ohh.

Who is it?

Hello, Missus Missus Jordan.

My name is Sonny Vaccaro.

I believe Mr Folk made it clear that we weren't interested.

Yes, I I was told not to call.

Do you typically make it a habit

of showing up at people's front doors on announce

maybe

the worst of all my faults?

And believe me, there are many, But

I don't like to take no for an answer,

and I actually think your son should be endorsed

by someone with that exact mindset.

Come on back, take a seat.

Thank you.

Lord, I'm out here if you need me.

OK, baby.

All right.

5 generations of Jordans have lived

and died in this forest by the highway.

And then, since the Civil War,

some of these trees are over 800 years old.

You know, it's quite presumptuous of you to show up at my door.

But I believe the saying that if you say what you want,

that's fine and good,

but doing

something about it.

That's what really counts.

Is he here?

He is like, you don't need to see him.

It's not time for that.

Where'd you get that name?

Sunny.

Well.

My mother had trouble bearing children,

so when it finally happened,

she said that when

she was staring up at the bright hot light in the hospital,

all she could think about

was the sun.

She's still with us.

She's not.

Sorry to hear that.

Thank you.

But.

But she did her best to raise us.

I think it's admirable giving your life for your family

and give and given to.

There's nothing left to give.

Then you give some more.

That's worth it.

You're good at this.

We're sitting here talking about my parents instead of about you.

I've had a lot of practise, there's no doubt about that.

Let's have a car on.

Now, you do understand that Michael's intention

is to sign with Adidas with Congress

as a second option.

And with respect, I think that's a mistake.

I'll make a bet with you.

I'll tell you exactly how those meetings are going to go,

and if I'm wrong then then

don't take a meeting with Mike, but if I'm right.

Please consider that you and Michael come out.

This is Converse, by the way.

John O'Neill.

He'll have his hair gelled up like an asshole.

Excuse me, a bunch of them be wearing red ties for the Bulls.

John will have a Rolex for sure.

Now, I've seen a lot of basketball,

but the feeling that I get when I see Michael,

there's

only a few other players who gave me that feeling.

Now when he's done.

I'd love it if you would ask him a question.

How's Michael going to stand out from these other players?

How's he going to be different?

What about Michael's meeting with Adidas?

Hello Missus Jordan, welcome.

You just tell me, sorry.

Here's what they'll say.

We have the best shoes, plain and simple.

All leather.

All the kids want to wear them converse.

Isn't this cool?

And.

I mean, this is me talking now and not Adidas.

They're not wrong.

I I get why Michael wants to go there.

Here's what you should ask them.

Who's running your company?

I think 4 different people in that room

are going to give you 4 different answers,

and

that's the problem with Adidas right now

and it's going to be a real headache for you

for the next few years.

Or should I ask you?

Ask me why.

Why are you in Momentum, North Carolina?

Because I believe in your son.

I believe he's different.

And I believe you might be the only person on earth who knows it.

That's why I'm in Wilmington, NC.

Right.

This is the Carol.

Thank you.

Bye, bye.

You got a lot of balls, you piece of shit.

You fat fuck.

You show up at the house.

Let me ask you something.

Is everybody from Pennsylvania this stupid?

I mean, are you trying to ruin your fucking career?

You show up at the house.

Well, you said it would be unprofessional to call.

That's real fucking funny.

You know, my my job is to protect Michael and his family from people like you

when you

go around me.

You make me look ineffectual

and if you end up signing them

it makes me look irrelevant.

Now that's the worst thing you can do to an agent.

Like if you're irrelevance is becoming self-evident to your client,

I don't see how that's

my fault.

I mean, I think that's maybe something you should take up with your therapist.

You don't want to talk to my therapist.

You won't have a life half as fucking miserable as my therapist,

but you give me no choice.

Because now, after what you did,

unless you make some fucking miracle dream,

deal with

the Jordans.

Unless you stop making that fucking air soul

and start making the entire company air

fucking Michael Jordan,

how dare you alive

and light you on fire and dance

and piss on

your grave and fuck the eye hole of your skull.

You're right.

I don't wanna be your therapist with me,

you fucking herpes Simplex 2, motherfucker.

You know, the fact that you know there's a second simplex of herpes

makes me think that

you might have it, David.

Of course I do.

Everyone has herpes.

You know why you don't, Sonny?

Because no one will fuck you.

No one?

I never looked at it that way.

You know what?

OK?

I will break you in half.

I will take your balls and nibble on them.

Do you hear me?

I will fucking take your nuts.

And fucking eat them.

I will eat your fucking nuts.

You know what?

I'm sick of your shit.

You know what?

But what?

What?

You think it's funny?

David, come on.

OK, We're on a telephone 3000 miles apart.

We're two out of shape, middle-aged guys.

I'm not out of shape.

I'm in great shape.

I'm in great shape.

When's the last time you saw me?

I mean fucking great shit.

I believe you did.

Unless you're making an offer to Michael and close him,

I will personally assure that

no client of this agency ever signs a contract with Nike.

And Nike will be out of the basketball business permanently.

And so will you.

What if we do make the deal?

You and I will be best friends.

It's Monday.

I'm lost.

They're coming to Beaverton, Colombo.

Don't make me say it twice.

They're they're coming out.

They're coming.

I sang it twice now.

You fucking OK?

Looking ahead yourself,

Michael's not gonna be excited to be there, OK?

If Mother's making him go, I understand.

Hey, David.

Yeah, I'll see you Monday.

Hey, fuck you.

Sunny.

Phil wants to see you in his office.

Ohh, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll give me like 10-15 minutes.

No, he said.

No.

Sorry, did you go to Michael Jordan's house

and sit down with his mother and schedule

a meeting with his family in this company for Monday?

We need a firm offer.

You don't have authorization to make any offer.

I understand from his representation

that he'll be expecting the entire amount.

250 a year.

Five years guarantee.

We can't afford that offer.

Do you understand how irresponsible that is?

That's not Converse is going to come in at 100.

You know the Germans will easily match too.

Honey, I'm the boss.

I'm the CEO of this company, OK?

I'm the CEO.

Guy.

You do what I tell you to do.

You work if you want to mean something in the basketball world,

you gotta spend.

Nothing in life is free, Phil.

Tell it to the college kids.

You keep giving our shoes away too, for free.

That's working.

That's a good idea.

How do you know?

Sorry, theoretical value.

It can't be measured.

So typical sunny value in what was my first idea

of high school All Star game.

Now what?

Every single company has their own branded high school

All Star game.

I'm giving away these ideas.

Feel free.

That's the problem is you see them as your ideas about you

and yourself and your ego.

There is no self, There's just the non self.

The non self.

That's right, the Dalai Lama have a great coloured Porsche.

Phil.

You fucking asshole.

Sunny, are you trying to be an asshole?

Look, all I can do is give you my recommendation.

This is the strongest one I've ever had.

I tell you what, if you want to go start your own company,

my own company.

That's what I wish you luck.

My own company.

You can be impetuous.

You can make mistakes.

You can be reckless.

But let me tell you how we do things at this company.

We make careful, strategic, measured,

thoughtful decisions with notable outcomes.

Knowable and thoughtful and careful.

How did you ever build this place, Phil?

Fuck you, son.

OK, you know.

You did.

You got the meeting?

You don't need a firm offer to prep the meeting,

so unless I give you the go ahead Sunday

night, you don't have a budget,

a Michael Jordan line or a firm offer to make on Monday.

So I'll think about it, and if I change my mind,

I'll just cancel it.

I don't know how much more emphatically I can say this

if we don't make this deal.

I don't know what my place is at this company.

I agree.

Would you like to risk any more on this hand, Sir?

Maybe the D to your house?

You're going to need to pack some pyjamas for tomorrow.

We're not leaving the office.

Michael Jordan is coming to Beaverton.

On the shelf.

Tennessee P.

What do I owe the honour?

I need a shoe peak.

I would assume as much.

I need the greatest basketball shoe that's ever been made.

How long do we have Monday Step in my office?

Hey, was that you on a skateboard in the parking lot?

Yeah.

What's that all about?

I'm having a member like, cracking.

It has to be individual, like.

Think of it like this.

The converse of playing ordinary shoes, right?

Every player wears the same one.

What we do with this one

is rather than have the athlete wear one of our shoes,

we create

the shoe around the athlete.

So the shoe is a physical manifestation

of the individual

rather than the individual,

as emblem of a corporate entity.

Something like that.

Girl requirements are.

Speak as an individual.

Market to a mass audience.

And be the most beautiful shoe known to mankind.

Yes, former function.

Something can be beautiful or it can be practical.

Rarely both.

Come up with something new.

Humans have been wearing shoes for thousands of years,

and the Gauguin had substantively

changed one.

When they differentiated between the right and the left shoe.

That was 600 years ago.

Let's go form beauty.

Not function.

You know, OK, say poetry only makes the world bearable.

If engineering that got us to the moon, I got to go.

OK, just get started today, tomorrow, Saturday.

If you don't come in Saturday, don't bother coming in Sunday.

We're Black Line.

Who's the player for the ship?

Michael Jordan.

Miss.

Mr Gordon.

I appreciate you making the long trip after right this way.

1.

Now.

Everywhere.

They're everywhere, Converse all the time.

The 1984 Olympics.

The feeling I get when I see Michael play,

there are only a few other players that gave

me that feeling and those players.

Are here at Congress.

It is that simple, Michael.

We're going to treat you like our superstar

before you even set foot on an NBA court.

We're looking for a shoe that holds appeal

beyond the basketball court.

Well, what could hold more appeal

than the shoe worn by the best players in the game

tradition?

And history are paramount of Congress.

You have an impressive roster.

Best three players in the league and Magic Johnson,

Larry Bird, Julius Erving.

But another way of looking at this

is that the best Michael will ever be with you

is

#4.

Frankly, man, we're.

We're talking about Magic Johnson and and Larry Bird here.

He's gonna play like that.

He's going to be mentioned in the same sentence with them.

What can be better than that?

The two bland.

They're just too white.

None of colour in there.

I mean, the Bulls are red and black and you get more red in.

They literally are not permitted

to be a single additional percentage point of red.

Is that true?

What is the actual rule?

51% of the shoe has to be white.

NBA is extremely strict about it.

They'll find it.

They'll find him $5000 a game.

We're fucked.

What about more red?