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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: evaluation
25 Jul 2023 Acquired Nike
“The thing that's so great, though, is it doesn't matter. It's the story, it's the dream.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- evaluation
- Recorded
- 25 Jul 2023
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Nike
Transcript context
…The coda to all of this is, even after reading all these books and watching all these videos and these interviews, I actually don't know what dollars ever changed hands. Some people said it was $5000 times an 82-game season. Some people said it was $1000 ever and then nothing after that. I have even heard that no dollars ever exchanged between Nike and the NBA or Nike and Michael Jordan because the fine was never levied. It was a threat that then Nike made the Air Jordan 1s before anything could be enforced. If anybody knows, please join the Slack and shoot us a DM, or put it in the general channel. I'm very curious. The thing that's so great, though, is it doesn't matter. It's the story, it's the dream. It doesn't matter. Right. They just put it in a freaking Hollywood movie that it was 5000 times 82 games, and that's all anybody's going to remember.…
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