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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.

Dave Zirin

January 29, 2024

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)

Edge of Sports

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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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

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

How the Green Bay Packers Became the Only USA Team Owned by the Fans
byDave Zirin / The Nation

We talk to Tom Nelson about his back on the Green Bay Packers and Arya joins the show again to talk Eastern Conference.

Body: This week we talk to Tom Nelson about his new book, “The Green and Gold Standard: A People's History of the Green Bay Packers,” with an emphasis on how they became fan-owned. Also, we talk to the hoops savant Arya Shirazi about the NBA’s Eastern Conference 

Zirin, The Bogus Lakers Sale Is Exactly Why We Need Publicly Owned Sports Teams

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/los-angeles-lakers-sale-private-equity/

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Dave ZirinDave Zirin is the sports editor at The Nation. He is the author of 11 books on the politics of sports. He is the author of a new book, The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn.


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