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Man Sues Michael Jordan and Nike for $832M

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Portland man sues Jordan, Nike for resemblance

04:32 PM CDT on Friday, July 7, 2006

By PAT DOORIS for kgw.com

A Northeast Portland man is suing basketball superstar Michael Jordan and Nike founder Phil Knight for a combined $832 million. Allen Heckard filed the suit himself, June 29th in Washington County Court. Heckard says he’s been mistaken as Michael Jordan nearly every day over the past 15 years and he’s tired of it.

“I'm constantly being accused of looking like Michael and it makes it very uncomfortable for me,” said Heckard.

Heckard is suing Jordan for defamation and permanent injury and emotional pain and suffering. He’s suing Knight for defamation and permanent injury for promoting Jordan and making him one of the most recognized men in the world.

Heckard stands just over six feet tall. He is not six foot six like the real Michael Jordan. But Heckard says many people seem to miss that. He does share a bit of resemblance to the real Michael Jordan. Heckard has a shaved head, an earring in his left ear, and is in good shape from working out, and yes, playing basketball.

“Even when I go to the gym I'm being accused of playing ball like him (Jordan), said Heckard."

Most people would consider that a high compliment.

"Yes...don’t get me wrong it’s definitely a positive thing, because Michael, like I say is one of the best ball players that I've known to play the game. But then again, that's Michael and I'm me. So I want to be recognized as me just like Michael's being recognized as Michael."

Dressed in blue Air Jordan tennis shoes, Heckard might seem to be actually trying to look like Jordan but Heckard doesn’t see it that way.

"They're very comfortable shoes to play ball in,” said Heckard. “I play a lot of basketball and any other shoes I try to play in tend to hurt the bottom of my feet."

“I got a right to buy Nike or Adidas or what ever, so I chose the Nike because its a good shoe for me to play ball in,” he said.

Heckard agreed that not everyone thinks he’s a famous basketball player, but insisted a lot of people do mistake him for Jordan.

"I figure if I'm out in public and around a lot of people at least three or four times out of a crowd ...and like I was at the Blues Festival and you could see people they was pointing at me," he said.

Some might wonder how he decided to sue Knight and Jordan for $416-million each. "Well, you figure with my age and you multiply that times seven and ah, then I turn around and ah I figure that's what it all boils down to."

The question remains – is the occasional confusion with an admired celebrity worth $800 million.

“Well,” said Heckard, “You never can put a value on a person's life. You know you're taking my lifestyle away from me. So you know...we'll let the ball bounce like Michael does...where it’s supposed to fall."
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I don't believe that the court can make him pay for the costs of having to deal with his frivilous lawsuit before they throw it out, but they should be able to.

Maybe he's hoping they'll settle for the cost of plastic surgery to make him look like Micheal Jackson instead. :biggrin:

OK, plastic surgeries, since that would probably take several procedures.
 
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This is just ridiculous. This is all I needed to read to know that this man is a moron:
Dressed in blue Air Jordan tennis shoes, Heckard might seem to be actually trying to look like Jordan but Heckard doesn’t see it that way.

"They're very comfortable shoes to play ball in,” said Heckard. “I play a lot of basketball and any other shoes I try to play in tend to hurt the bottom of my feet."

“I got a right to buy Nike or Adidas or what ever, so I chose the Nike because its a good shoe for me to play ball in,” he said.
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Not to mention the fact that he's 6 inches shorter than Michael... anyone with a brain would know that by looking at this Heckard guy that he wasn't Jordan just based off of height, regardless of him looking like him, slightly... or not very much... eh, Heckard is a dumbass.
 
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Re: “I'm constantly being accused of looking like Michael and it makes it very uncomfortable for me,” said Heckard.

He should look at the "upside" of this, (if he really looked like Jordan), he should be able to walk into any bar and instantly pick up any "hot chick" he wanted.
 
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Come on guys, I'm just trying to get mine, you know what I'm sayin? Every day....Michael this, Michael that.....girls throwin their panties at me, sayin' "Just Do Me, Mike".....I couldn't take this shit another day.
So I was gettin high a few weeks ago, watchin some infomercial about this lawyer...and I says to myself, Hey, I can be a lawyer n shit....I'll sue Michael Jordan, get him to settle out of court, take my money and invest in one of them pot farms in Columbia or one of them other foreign places, where foreigners live n all. Never have to work another day in my life...that other day I worked was hard, man....y'all ever worked for a whole day??
Stop hatin, y'all.
 
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I'm going to go find Jordan, then run up to him saying, "Hey, you! Yeah, aren't you that Allen Heckard guy that filed that frivolous lawsuit against Jordan and Nike? You're a fucking leech! You know that? Oh yeah, by the way, you really don't look too much like Jordan anyhow ... I think you look more like Montel."

Then Jordan will have grounds to countersue. :wink2:
 
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