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Nike vs. Adidas series would keep game alive

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There was a rowdy, adrenaline-filled conversation among some Adidas basketball marketing executives a few years ago about a campaign idea that would have crossed a line from which there would be no turning back.

The idea, according to a former Adidas staffer, was to shoot a commercial where a van with an Adidas logo pulled up to the gates of the Nike campus in Beaverton, Oregon and a cast...

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