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The biggest sneaker free agent in basketball history didn't sign with Nike or Adidas.—Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 2 June 2026 Holt looked like the best player in the class at the Nike Hoops Summit and had slightly better numbers than Stokes on that U19 team last summer.—Cj Moore
june 2, New York Times, 2 June 2026 The Nike Air Bakin OG Varsity Red will be released this fall from Nike’s Snkrs app and select Nike Sportswear retailers.—Riley Jones, Footwear News, 2 June 2026 But according to court documents, the EEOC has accused Nike and The New York Times of discrimination against white employees and job applicants.—Andrea Hsu, NPR, 1 June 2026 Her skirt is couture from Nike, aptly, named by its co-founders Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman for the Greek goddess of victory lo these many decades ago, after Bowerman figured out the whole waffle-sole thing by destroying his wife’s waffle iron in his kitchen.—Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026 In a Nike video on Instagram, the tennis player was pictured practicing on court as a phone buzzed and rang.—Meg Walters, InStyle, 1 June 2026 In 2022, Nike opened the Serena Williams Building at the company’s headquarters.—Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 1 June 2026 Just look at Nike , which previously guided for a $1.5 billion tariff headwind this fiscal year.—Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 21 Feb. 2026