Basketball Butterfly Effect: Why Haven’t the Knicks Won a Championship in 50 Years?
On this episode of the Edge of Sports podcast, Arya Shirazi joins the show for another installment of Basketball Butterfly Effect.

Where sports and politics collide, hosted by Nation magazine Sports Editor Dave Zirin
New York is the Mecca of basketball. So what explains the city’s inability to score an NBA championship in the last half-century. Arya Shirazi joins the show to talk about this historical oddity.
Zirin, What Naomi Klein Taught Me About Aaron Rodgers
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/naomi-klein-aaron-rodgers-colin-kaepernick/
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Patrick Ewing #33 battles Chris Webber #2 of the Washington Bullets for the tip-off, 1995 at the Capital Centre in Landover, Md.
(Focus on Sport / Getty Images)New York is the Mecca of basketball. So what explains the city’s inability to score an NBA championship in the last half-century? Arya Shirazi joins the show to talk about this historical oddity.

Where sports and politics collide, hosted by Nation magazine Sports Editor Dave Zirin
This week, we speak to Chris Buccafusco about his organization, Atlanta Bravest, and what they are doing to combat indigenous mascoting. Also, sound from the March for Mumia onto the grounds of his prison, which took on the issue not only of Mumia’s incarceration but also of elder and medical abuse inside our prisons.
Zirin,“This Is Historic”: FIFA and UEFA Presidents Are Accused of Aiding Israel’s War Crimes
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/fifa-uefa-war-crimes-israel/
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