rojo wrote:
I just got a good text from a friend.
A friend wrote:Anyone see the irony in the fact that Borris is getting sued by Nike for not following the right of 1st refusal....yet when Mo moved to Portland he was under adidas contract, and they simply let him wait and wear adidas stuff at nike for 3 months before making an official offer the moment adidas right of refusal expired...
Irony? So Adidas wouldn't match Nike's offer and so Nike poached Mo. They lost in this transaction. I don't exactly see the comparison here.
Either way, Mo got paid and honored his contract. In fact, it looks like Nike respects contracts so much that they let Mo (who looks to have been properly advised...) train in a competitor's equipment in their city...
It looks to me like Berian got paid in full by Nike, **very likely** got offered a similar in kind offer from Nike, but chose a second, more immediate pay day.
He and especially his agent should have erred on the side of caution.
(We won't know for sure without the terms. But I just don't buy the propagated notion that Nike is just out to ruin a guy's career. It's a valid business decision.)