Overview

• On the All The Smoke podcast, Craig Robinson said Michael Jordan “cooked me” during private summer-2001 workouts as he prepared for his NBA return
• Robinson recounted that Jordan enlisted him, Ariel Capital’s John Rogers and former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan for the sessions organized by trainer Tim Grover
• He described elbows to his ribs and neck and a straight-forward exchange after a foul that underscored Jordan’s relentless competitiveness outside official games
• These fresh anecdotes reinforce the well-documented hyper-competitive legacy seen in The Last Dance and other firsthand accounts
• In a Forbes interview, Jasmine Jordan announced Jordan Brand’s strategic expansion into women’s basketball and athlete-driven NIL initiatives