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Sunny Vaccaro has a book. It's called Legends and Souls, the memoir of an American

original. It's just been released, available online, wherever books are sold. A little background

here on Sunny. I think I met Sunny in 1983.

I covered his basketball camp when it was in New Jersey

and was also part of a TV show at CNN with Sunny.

We did a college basketball show.

And he was a great resource for me over the years.

Whenever I needed something set straight or there was a rumor about a coaching change,

somebody getting hired, fired, I always went to Sonny. And Sonny would always, if he knew something,

then he would tell me, he'd set me straight.

And we've stayed in touch for whatever, 40 years now.

And so I knew the story about when he was getting Michael Jordan.

Michael Jordan was Mike Jordan at North Carolina and hit the shot that won the national title against Georgetown.

Now, Sonny's job, Sonny was trying to grow Nike.

Nike was a running shoe company.

And Sonny went all in.

Bob Knight saw Michael Jordan and said that guy's going to be the greatest basketball player of all time.

And you had Adidas and Combers who were the big shoe companies at the time.

Adidas, big shoe company.

And Converse had been established for quite some time prior to that.

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