Chapter 461: You Should Call It Number 23

Nike, like Adidas, chose an elder as their representative for negotiations.

Claude Mouton had been a senior executive at Nike before Jordan became part of the company; he witnessed firsthand how Jordan revived Nike from the brink of collapse and turned it into the sports goods empire it is today.

Those who had seen Jordan's heyday found it hard to believe that there would be another like him.

But Yu Fei's trajectory was traceable.

His legend began with defeating Wizards Dan.

Wasn't that a sign from God?

If Michael Jordan was destined to be surpassed, then the one to do it had not only to organize his retirement ceremony but also to watch how his own myth was dismantled.

Mouton was superstitious about Jordan.

Having grown up before the television era, he had seen those pre-television megastars, but Jordan's uniqueness lay in being one of only two black athletes since the founding of the United States to become trans-racial heroes.