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Michael B. Jordan’s ‘Thomas Crown Affair’ Sounds Incredibly Sick

Michael B. Jordan’s ‘Thomas Crown Affair’ Sounds Incredibly Sick

Published by Jenni Sidey

There probably hasn’t ever been a bad time to be Michael B. Jordan, frequently ranked among both the greatest actors and the sexiest men of his entire generation. (Okay, fine, maybe the Fantastic Four reboot was a bit of a nadir.) At the same time, MBJ has never had it better: his last movie, Sinners, was the zeitgeistiest blockbuster of 2025, riding its popular appeal—and genre-smashing verve courtesy of director Ryan Coogler—to a record number of nominations at the Oscars, where Jordan beat Timothée Chalamet to Best Actor. Right now, you’ll be hard-pressed to name a hotter property in Hollywood. It is truly his world. And yet, the best may well have yet to come. Early next year, the actor-director is set to helm the second remake of sultry heist flick The Thomas Crown Affair, a passion project that Jordan reportedly first pitched over 10 years ago. The ‘60s original starred Steve McQueen as an entrepreneurial multi-millionaire, the titular Thomas Crown, who stages a daring series of bank heists essentially for the love of the …

The Invisible Game: Jordan’s Negative Space and Jung’s Shadow

The Invisible Game: Jordan’s Negative Space and Jung’s Shadow

Published by Jenni Sidey

What do basketball legend Michael Jordan and psychiatrist Carl Jung have in common? More than you might think. Both focused on seeing things that others often don’t see. Jordan saw “negative space,” which is the empty area between the other players on the court. Jung’s idea of the Shadow describes the hidden parts of ourselves that we don’t generally see. Both concepts teach us that the things we’re not looking at, such as the gaps, the blind spots, and the overlooked spaces, hold the key to extraordinary performances and deeper self-understanding. The Art of Seeing What Isn’t There Jordan’s Hall of Fame basketball career was built in part on his unique ability to perceive and utilize negative space. Jordan didn’t just see players. He saw the spaces between them. This enabled him to navigate through defenses, finding paths that others didn’t see. His famous fadeaway jumper wasn’t just about athletic ability. It was about recognizing and creating negative space between himself and the defender. Carl Jung’s concept of the Shadow is the psychological equivalent of …

Tyler Reddick Wins at Darlington in 4th NASCAR Win This Season for Michael Jordan’s Team

Tyler Reddick Wins at Darlington in 4th NASCAR Win This Season for Michael Jordan’s Team

Published by Sam Flores

DARLINGTON, S.C. (AP) — A malfunctioning battery, a cool suit that got very hot and a big deficit to the leader with less than 50 laps remaining at Darlington Raceway. The “Track Too Tough To Tame” tested Tyler Reddick in every way possible Sunday, and this year’s top star in NASCAR naturally passed with flying colors for his fourth victory of the season. “I know never to give up,” said Reddick, who broke through after three runner-up finishes on the tricky 1.366-mile oval. “I think it’s very fitting that when we finally get our first win here at Darlington that ‘The Lady in Black’ would test us like that. We’ve been so close so many times.” Ryan Blaney finished third, followed by Carson Hocevar and Austin Cindric. The problems started on the first lap for Reddick, who radioed his team about an alternator problem that caused his voltage to drop dangerously low. The team swapped a battery with larger capacity into his Camry after the first stage, but the charging problems remained. Reddick had to …

Michael B. Jordan’s Basketball Coach Saw His “Always Focused” Drive from the Beginning

Michael B. Jordan’s Basketball Coach Saw His “Always Focused” Drive from the Beginning

Published by Sam Flores

Michael B. Jordan made history on Sunday by becoming the sixth Black actor to win best actor at the Oscars. He was honored for his performance in Sinners, directed by Ryan Coogler, with his mother in the crowd as he accepted the golden statuette. Two other figures in Jordan’s life had long sensed the extent of his talent. His Newark Arts High School drama teacher, Carl Gonzalez, and basketball coach, Roger León, said in interviews with People that his potential was already visible when they first knew him. “His relationship with Ryan Coogler is not to be dismissed—not at all,” Gonzalez told the magazine. “Those two may end up being like Scorsese and De Niro.” Gonzalez detected in a young Jordan a focus and work ethic that set him apart from his peers. “I’m not surprised by any of this,” he added. “The sky is the limit for this guy.” The teacher met Jordan when he was a junior in high school and his career was already taking off. At the time, the young actor …

Michael B. Jordan’s Oscars Advice Mirrors Timothee Chalamet Slogan

Michael B. Jordan’s Oscars Advice Mirrors Timothee Chalamet Slogan

Published by Daniella Wilson

After winning best actor at the 2026 Oscars, Sinners star Michael B. Jordan offered encouraging words for other artists looking to sink their teeth into pursuing a passion. While speaking at the press room after accepting the Academy Award, the star was asked what this victory should signify to rising creatives. Jordan starred with a dual role as twins Smoke and Stack in Ryan Coogler‘s Warner Bros. drama that landed a leading 16 Oscar nominations before winning in four categories. “My father always told me, ‘Don’t expect anything to be handed to you,’” Jordan said backstage. “You do the work, and everything else will figure itself out.” The Creed star acknowledged that the Oscar represents “a pinnacle” of his industry and that it can be easy to feel competitive about winning one. He also added, “At the same time, what’s for you is for you, and you can’t listen to anybody else. I’m just walking my path. I would encourage other actors and other artists, no matter what their medium is, to try to keep …

Oscars 2026: Michael B. Jordan’s Best Actor Nod Was the Win Everybody Wanted

Oscars 2026: Michael B. Jordan’s Best Actor Nod Was the Win Everybody Wanted

Published by Jenni Sidey

This evening, at a 2026 Oscars ceremony that brought to a close the most up-in-the-air, undecided awards season in recent history, One Battle After Another—Paul Thomas Anderson’s 30-years-in-the-making portrayal/critique/tribute to the American revolutionary instinct—took many of the banner awards and won most of the jump balls with its main competition: Ryan Coogler’s brilliant vampiric genre analogy, Sinners. One of a few notable exceptions (shout to Autumn Durald!) was the great Michael B. Jordan’s Best Actor win for his performance as twins in the film that almost certainly finished a close second for Best Picture. As both Smoke and Stack in Sinners, Jordan tackles two roles that demand pathos, and humor, and deeply emotional resonance. It’s a performance that’s destined to age well and it deepens with repeated viewings, so it is perhaps not surprising his road to this award was anything but conventional, with little to no precedent in Oscar history. Jordan was the first actor to ever win the award for playing twins, and the sixth Black man to ever win Best Actor. So …

Spike Lee Pulled Up to the 2026 Oscars in Off-White Air Jordans

Spike Lee Pulled Up to the 2026 Oscars in Off-White Air Jordans

Published by Jenni Sidey

At the 2026 Oscars, many of the best-dressed men in attendance chose to keep things simple in classically tailored tuxedos. Not so for Spike Lee, who kept on doing him in the way only Spike can. The legendary director is as well-known for his sneaker game as he is for helming classics like Do the Right Thing and last year’s Highest 2 Lowest, thanks to his iconic run of Air Jordan commercials in the late ’80s and early ’90s. And at Sunday night’s ceremony, Lee stayed on brand by hitting the red carpet in a pair of elite Js: the Off-White x Air Jordan 4 ‘Sail.’ Spike Lee at the 2026 Oscars in a pair of Off-White x Air Jordan 4 ‘Sail.’ Gilbert Flores/Getty Images Released in 2020 as a women’s exclusive, the ‘Sail’ 4s are one of the crown jewels of Virgil Abloh’s later collaborations with Nike. Lee used the kicks to lock down a typically freaky fit: brown Prince of Wales check blazer, white shirt, cream trousers, and a matching purple bow tie …

Michael Jordan Wore These Air Jordans During the Last Dance. Why Aren’t They More Loved?

Michael Jordan Wore These Air Jordans During the Last Dance. Why Aren’t They More Loved?

Published by Jenni Sidey

Once a season or so, Jordan Brand reissues a sneaker that Michael Jordan wore on the basketball court in an iconic original colorway—the Air Jordan 3 ‘Black Cement,’ say, or the Air Jordan 1 ‘Bred’—and that shoe inevitably flies off the shelves. But this week, an OG Air Jordan that’s only been released twice since its days on the United Center hardwood makes its return—and it’s unclear if sneakerheads will be lining up to cop. For the first time since 2017, the Air Jordan 13 is back in its original red-and-white ‘Chicago’ colorway. The Tinker Hatfield-designed 13 was one of the last signature shoes Jordan wore during his prime with the Chicago Bulls, and he only wore four makeups of it on the court. The ‘Chicago’ kept things clean and simple with a white pebbled leather upper accented by a stripe of red suede that ran above the black sole and up the heel. It’s tied together with a circular jeweled “cat eye” emblem on the ankle. Courtesy of Nike The 13 occupies an unenviable …

Meet Michael B. Jordan’s supportive mom Donna and dad Michael

Meet Michael B. Jordan’s supportive mom Donna and dad Michael

Published by Daniella Wilson

When Michael B. Jordan, to his admitted shock, accepted the Actor Award for his role on Sinners in March 2026, he made sure to thank his mother, Donna Jordan, for helping him kickstart his acting career. “Mom, thank you for driving me back and forth to New York when we didn’t have enough money to go through the Holland Tunnel, when we were looking for gas money, parking spaces,” he said as his mother proudly looked on from the audience. Learn all about the Sinners actor’s early life and his parents below. Michael played both twins Smoke and Stack in Sinners Michael is part Californian, part New Jerseyan Michael, 39, was born in Santa Ana, California — his father, Michael A. Jordan, is from Los Angeles — but moved to Newark, New Jersey, where his mother is from, in 1982. Though Michael primarily lives in Los Angeles now, he told HuffPost in 2013: “I was born in Orange County — in Santa Ana. My dad is from California. I was raised on the East Coast. …

Y2K-Era Air Jordans Are Having a Moment

Y2K-Era Air Jordans Are Having a Moment

Published by Jenni Sidey

In early January, the release of the Air Jordan 17 “Doernbecher” —a sneaker drop with a very special origin story—single-handedly revitalized one of the most overlooked Jordans ever, and became an early contender for sneaker of the year in the process. And at New York Fashion Week, Public School returned to the runway with a new version of the Air Jordan 15, rekindling the brand’s relationship with a sneaker it first collaborated on back in 2017. (Notably, that drop coincided with the last time late-period Air Jordans experienced a bump in popularity.) The timing could hardly be better—in fact, if anything, this resurgence of later Jordans feels somewhat overdue. Pop culture, and particularly fashion, has been gravitating toward the dawn of the millennium for several years now, but while Y2K-era sneakers have been on the rise for some time, the Air Jordans released around the year 2000 have so far not benefited from the trend. Perhaps it’s because the 2000s-era Jordans were themselves out of step with the trends of the era and therefore still …