Jordan Brand Executive Kept His Murder Conviction A Secret, Finally Reveals Truth

A Nike executive has opened up about the time he murdered a Black teenager in his recently published book — more than five decades after he committed the crime.

Larry Miller was 16 when he killed Edward David White at the corner of 53rd and Locust Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Sept. 30, 1965, CNN reported.

He had accused White, then 18, of being in a rival gang before he shot the stranger in the chest and walked away, added the outlet.

White, the father of 8-month-old Hasan Adams and was also expecting another child named Azizah Arline, had no gang ties and was heading home from work that night, his family said.

Miller would spend four-and-a-half years in prison after he pleaded guilty to the murder and was convicted of shooting and killing White, a report by CNBC said. He also served five additional years for a series of separate armed robberies.

Following his release, Miller lived on without opening up about his crime, and he would later end up becoming the president of both Nike's Jordan brand and the Portland Trail Blazers.

Miller, now chairman of Jordan at 72, has finally opened up about the murder in his memoir, "Jump: My Secret Journey from the Streets to the Boardroom," published on Jan. 18.

Laila Lacy, Miller's daughter and co-author of the memoir, had to push her father for 13 years to tell his story.

Miller had approached Nike co-founder Phil Knight, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and basketball legend Michael Jordan — his longtime friend — in preparation for the reveal.

All three supported Miller and his decision to speak now in hopes of stopping another teen from heading into criminality, inspiring someone in or who had left prison to turn their life around and encouraging employers to look beyond people's rap sheets.

"I’m getting comfortable with my story being out there. I tried so hard to hide over the years. ... It’s kind of been freeing to be able to not have to carry this around," Miller said.

However, Miller failed to name White in his book, and he also did not reach out to his victim's family before he went public with his secret over concerns of privacy.

Miller has since apologized for not naming White in the book, and he has met with his victim's family twice, with the first meeting on Dec. 17 resulting in the latter's sister, Barbara Mack, forgiving Miller for the murder.

"[I]f I didn’t forgive him, God wouldn’t forgive me," Mack, 84, was quoted as saying by The New York Times.

She noted that "would have been across the table" had she been 30 years younger.

Adams, now 56, also forgave Miller. Arline, meanwhile, claimed she was working through the healing process but was not yet "100 percent forgiving."

"I can't live in a space of hardness and hate; that won't do me or my spirit any good," the now 55-year-old Arline said.

During their second meeting, White's family asked Miller to establish a scholarship foundation in the dead man's name, funded in perpetuity, which would assist his descendants and maybe others in attending college or trade school.

The scholarship foundation would provide opportunities for family members and demonstrate that White "did not die in vain," noted Arline.

Miller said the details for the scholarship had not been worked out, but "we have agreed that we wanted to do something that allows his name to live on and something that also is a benefit and positive to other folks that come from our community."