Podcast / Edge of Sports / Jan 29, 2024

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.

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Where sports and politics collide, hosted by Nation magazine Sports Editor Dave Zirin

Why Haven’t the Knicks Won a Championship In 50 Years?
byDave Zirin / The Nation

 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.

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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.

Edge of Sports
Edge of Sports

Where sports and politics collide, hosted by Nation magazine Sports Editor Dave Zirin

Moses Malone Gets Biblical
byDave Zirin / The Nation

This week, we speak to Paul Knepper about his new book, Moses Malone: The Life Of A Basketball Prophet. Also, we talked to the hoops savant Arya Shirazi about what we’ve learned so far this NBA season and which preseason prediction we wish we could do over. 

Zirin, Sports Media Has Forgotten About CTE Even After Player Deaths

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/nfl-concussion-cte-sports-media/

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