{"id":954557,"date":"2020-05-05T15:18:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T19:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=954557"},"modified":"2020-05-05T15:18:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T19:18:34","slug":"what-if-michael-jordan-had-signed-with-adidas-he-very-nearly-did-and-it-haunts-gary-stokan-to-this-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=954557","title":{"rendered":"What if Michael Jordan had signed with Adidas? He very nearly did, and it haunts Gary Stokan to this day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/what-if-michael-jordan-had-signed-with-adidas-he-very-nearly-did-and-it-haunts-gary-stokan-to-this-day\/19085167\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/voices\/2015\/03\/25\/14539324\/14539324-1427315279-160x120.jpg\" alt=\"Jordan Brand Nike shoe design for Sweet Sixteen\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Former NC State player and assistant coach Gary Stokan &#8211; currently the CEO and President of the Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl &#8211; joined The OG on Monday to talk about how close Adidas came to signing Michael Jordan when he was with the shoe company, and how the history of the shoe wars would&#8217;ve been forever changed if he had. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/what-if-michael-jordan-had-signed-with-adidas-he-very-nearly-did-and-it-haunts-gary-stokan-to-this-day\/19085167\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/what-if-michael-jordan-had-signed-with-adidas-he-very-nearly-did-and-it-haunts-gary-stokan-to-this-day\/19085167\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"What if Michael Jordan had signed with Adidas? He very nearly did, and it haunts Gary Stokan to this day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former NC State player and assistant coach Gary Stokan &#8211; currently the CEO and President of the Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl &#8211; joined The OG on Monday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=954557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=954557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=954557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=954557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}