This is out of my copy of SC with the Penny cover:
SC:How'd they break it to you that they had decided to end your Air Penny line?
Penny:Well what happened was,when I went to Phoenix,they were trying to put me onto the Jordan Brand.I said "I don't want to be on the Jordan Brand if I just had my own shoe."They were saying that the guys that were working on the Air Penny line had [moved to different divisions] and that they needed to go in a different direction,and I didn't want to take another direction at all - especially to Jordan Brand,which was no disrespect to Michael,but my shoes were rivaling his! I was hurt,but that's the business of it,and I understood and knew that wouldn't hurt our relationship or respect.