On this episode of the Edge of Sports podcast, Arya Shirazi joins the show for yet another installment of the Basketball Butterfly Effect.
Buck Williams #52 of the New Jersey Nets in action against the Washington Bullets during an NBA basketball game circa 1983 at the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland.(Focus on Sport / Getty Images)
Where sports and politics collide, hosted by Nation magazine Sports Editor Dave Zirin
In this episode, we talk about the truly forgotten players of the NBA, particularly during the 1980s, such a unique era in the history of the NBA, and theorize on why they are not remembered as intently as others.
Zirin, “What the Super Bowl Parade Shooting Has to Do With the Empire of the Gun”
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/super-bowl-parade-shooting-guns-colonialism/
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In this episode of Edge of Sports, we talk about the truly forgotten players of the NBA, particularly during the 1980s—such a unique era in the history of the NBA—and we theorize on why they are not remembered as intently as others.
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Where sports and politics collide, hosted by Nation magazine Sports Editor Dave Zirin
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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Dave ZirinDave Zirin is the sports editor at The Nation. He is the author of 11 books on the politics of sports. He is also the coproducer and writer of the new documentary Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL.