>> except the kids. >> bergman: sonny vaccaro also made a lot of money off those kids. he became known as the "godfather of youth basketball" because of his relationships with the best young players in the nation. >> six fouls and they're out. >> bergman: those players attended vaccaro's summer camps and his all-star games, where they could showcase their skills for big-time college basketball coaches. in 1977, vaccaro had a new idea, and he took it to a then little- known athletic shoe company called nike. >> i said, "we ought to give the shoes away and we ought to pay the college coaches. put the shoes on the kids and the t-shirts on the kids, and the public will buy." >> bergman: soon, vaccaro was giving away truckloads of nike shoes to college coaches, and then paying them so their players would wear them-- coaches like bill foster from duke and jerry tarkanian from unlv. you were paying college coaches. >> yeah. >> bergman: was it a violation of the rules? >> no, no. i basically gave them my check, which nike later reimbursed me. >> bergman: you were writing person