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By Matt Hladik The story of Nike signing Michael Jordan is coming to movie theaters, with some big name casting to boot. Legendary actors and close friends Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are teaming up for a film portraying Nike’s pursuit of Jordan in the 1980s. Both men will co-write and star, with Affleck directing and Damon producing. Affleck will reportedly play Nike co-founder Phil Knight, while Damon will be cast as Sonny Vaccaro, the colorful former Nike marketing executive who helped engineer the signing of Jordan coming out of North Carolina. “The film will follow Vaccaro’s conquest and i…