Topic - Phil Knight

“What Michael Jordan did for basketball, Tiger Woods absolutely can do for golf,” Knight told Golf World magazine about the original deal (5 years, $40 million) that seemed so enormous at the time and now looks to be what his father, Earl Woods, once called it - chump change.

Tiger Woods, Nike was a partnership for a lifetime until it wasn't →

It was not a surprise breakup, especially after Nike co-founder Phil Knight said in the days after the company suspended Irving that he had doubts there would be any reconciliation.

Nike says Nets' Kyrie Irving no longer one of its athletes →