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 talk about the politics and promise of the 2026-2027 NBA season with the Hoops Savant Arya Shirazi. It gets no better.
Zirin, Jalen Hurts Deserved Better. We All Do
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jalen-hurts-eagles-blood-clot/
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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.