The Ballad of Kobe Bean
On this episode of Edge of Sports, Arya Shirazi joins the show for part two of our discussion on basketball “butterfly effects.”
Edge of Sports
Where sports and politics collide, hosted by Nation magazine Sports Editor Dave Zirin
Basketball Butterfly Effect Part II: The Ballad of Kobe Bean
This week on the Edge of Sports Podcast, part two of our discussion with basketball savant Arya Shirazi about basketball butterfly effects. This time, we're talking about what would have happened if Kobe Bryant, on draft night 1996, had not been traded to the Los Angeles Lakers and had instead been kept by the Charlotte Hornets.
Also, we have words about the controversy surrounding Michael Oher and the Blind Side.
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Kobe Bryant in 2015.
(Rob Carr / Getty Images)This week on the Edge of Sports podcast, we have part two of our discussion with basketball savant Arya Shirazi about basketball “butterfly effects.”
This time, we’re talking about what would have happened if Kobe Bryant, on draft night 1996, had not been traded to the Los Angeles Lakers and had instead been kept by the Charlotte Hornets. Also, I have words about the controversy surrounding Michael Oher and the Blind Side.
Edge of Sports
Where sports and politics collide, hosted by Nation magazine Sports Editor Dave Zirin
The Atlanta Braves or the Atlanta Bravest? Also, the March for Mumia
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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