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
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.