Nike, his sponsor, had crafted a pair of gold running spikes for him. Now 28, he became known as 'The Man With the Golden Shoes' and expectations rose. The 400m was the first of Johnson's events ...

In his first few years at Nike, he worked on the gold track shoe that Olympian Michael Johnson wore to win two gold medals, starting Hatfield’s shoe designer career off quite well. With his own ...

Larry Johnson's $1 million shoe deal with Converse topped Michael Jordan's Nike contract in 1991. Larry Johnson just signed his first NBA contract for the Charlotte Hornets in 1991 when he topped ...