Jordan Brand Chairman Larry Miller Talks Murdering a Man as a Teenager: “It Was a Senseless Act That I Regret Every Day”

Larry Miller, Chairman of Nike’s Jordan Brand, recently revealed he killed a man when he was a teenager.

The business executive appeared on Tuesday’s episode of “The Tamron Hall Show” to promote his newly released autobiography “Jump: My Secret Journey from the Streets to the Boardroom,” which details how he murdered 18-year-old Edward David White, who he says was “ in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

“I was drunk. I was angry. I was 16 years old and part of a gang, and it was just a senseless act that I regret every day,” Miller said of the 1965 killing, before stating that taking the life of an innocent young Black man “eats at” him.

Miller pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for killing the father of two and served less than five years in prison. By the time he was 20, he was back on the street but was arrested a short time later and served more jail time. There, he began taking college classes, and upon his release, he received an accounting degree from Temple University.

While working closely with the Jordan Brand, his daughter, Laila Lacy, inspired him to tell his story, and Michael Jordan encouraged him to reach out to his victim’s family and offer a sincere apology. He says that if he receives nothing else from the book, he is satisfied with White’s family forgiving him.