Biographies The head of Nike’s basketball department said he shot another young man as a teenager

Larry Miller talks about his past in an interview with Sports Illustrated as well as in his upcoming autobiography.

Sports equipment giant A member of Nike’s leadership Larry Miller, 72, tells the gloomy thing about its past in the American Sports Journal Sports Illustratedin (SI) in an interview. When Miller was 16, he killed by shooting an 18-year-old man on a street in West Philadelphia.

Miller’s autobiography is about to be published next year, in which he tells more about the case. She has made the book together with her eldest daughter Laila Lacyn with.

Miller runs the basketball unit at Nike and is responsible for the Jordan and Converse brands, among others.

Miller belonged as a teenager to a gang, on a vengeance he shot in his drunken head a person completely out of show. Miller tells SI that at first he didn’t even know who was shooting.

“It made it even harder for me because of that [ampumiseen] there was no reason. I’ve struggled with that and I’ve thought about it every day, ”Miller says.

“If I could go back and cancel it, I would definitely do so. But I can’t, so I can only try to help other people so that it doesn’t happen to anyone else. ”

MillerIN according to him, he has not concealed his prison time from his employers: at the age of 13 to 30, Miller spent most of his time first in a youth prison and later in prison.

Miller studied while in prison and earned a university degree at the age of 30, when he was also released from prison for the last time.

About shooting Miller says he has only told his loved ones and Nike’s management, among others, in recent months. SI also asked Nike’s CEO for a comment on the case From John Donohoe.

“Larry Miller has played a significant role in Nike’s history and is a beloved member of the Nike family,” Donohoe states in a statement.

“His story is an example of the perseverance, perseverance and strength of humanity.”

Miller himself states that he is nervous, but at the same time relieved now that the gloomy past has been revealed.

“I now feel free to be me.”

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