Episode 81: Blake and Giovanni on Pickup B-ball and the Instagram Community

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Thank you to Blake and Giovanni for coming on the show. Follow them on instagram! Blake is @sacredhoopsbook and Giovanni is @hgnext. And feel free to listen to my earlier conversations with Blake, featured in Episode 44 and Episode 48.

Thank you to all you listeners out there! Please subscribe to Dear Adam Silver, and if you already are subscribed, please share, rate and review wherever you find your podcasts. Thank you so much for all of your support.

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Episode 81: Blake and Giovanni on Pickup B-ball and the Instagram Community

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Episode 90: Whereas Hoops is back and a court has been built! 1:04:28

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The collaborative team from Whereas Hoops , Noah Cohan and John Early, are back on the show to discuss the recent opening of basketball courts in Forest Park. Are you interested in history? Public space? Social practice and engagement with place? St. Louis? And of course, basketball? Listen now! This project is wonderful and I am grateful to have Noah and John back on the show (check out Episode 80 for our first conversation) to discuss this exciting work and all of the nuanced experience, research and collaborations with many people from across St. Louis that went into making the courts possible,…

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Episode 89: Mirin Fader and Dream: The Life and Legacy of Hakeem Olajuwon 54:51

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Hey Dear Adam Silver listeners! We are back with a new interview with writer and New York Times Bestselling author Mirin Fader who is on the show to talk about her new book Dream: The Life and Legacy of Hakeem Olajuwon , which was released earlier this week! Hakeem Olajuwon is of course a former professional basketball player who was a 2 x Defensive Player of the Year, a 2 league MVP, a 2 x NBA Champion and a 2 x Finals MVP, and a 12 x NBA All star among many other things on and off the court. Mirin’s first book Giannis: The Improbable Rise of an NBA Champion , was a New York Times best seller and was featured on many other best selling lists. Mirin is a Senior Staff Writer at The Ringer where she writes long-form, human-interest sports features. Before that, she wrote for Bleacher Report and the Orange County Register. This is a fascinating book that has seemingly endless interesting stories about Olajuwon's life and experience moving from Nigeria to the United States to play basketball. But also, it is just a book about the world and where basketball fits in and all of the ugliness and joy that can come from the game and institutions. Purchase a copy of Dream: The Life and Legacy of Hakeem Olajuwon ⁠here⁠ . You won't regret it! If you are curious about the video compilation of NBA stars Kyle was referring to, you can watch here . You can follow Mirin on Twitter @MirinFader , Kyle is @kylethegreen and Abigail is @DearAdamSilver . Kyle also produces and hosts the Give Methods a Chance and Give Theory a Chance podcasts. Check them out too!…

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Episode 88: Talking Trash with Rafi Kohan and Kyle Green 1:13:03

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Dear Adam Silver listeners! It has been awhile. After a cross country move and settling into my new home in northern northern California, we are back with our 88th episode. Author Rafi Kohan joins the show to discuss his new book Trash Talk: The Only Book About Destroying Your Rivals That Isn't Total Garbage (PublicAffairs 2023). Dr. Kyle Green of SUNY Brockport's sociology department is back to co-host and we laugh a lot during this episode, all while getting into some heavy ideas and concerns. Rafi's book is an entertaining and informative read and it was fun to get into it and talk a wee bit of trash too! You can purchase the book here . Follow us on Twitter: Rafi , Kyle and Abigail…

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Episode 87: Andrew Maraniss and Inaugural Ballers 1:19:05

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New York Times Bestselling author Andrew Maraniss is back on the show to discuss Inaugural Ballers, his 2022 book that tells the story of the first US women's Olympic basketball team that played in the 1976 games. This incredible team was recently inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and it felt like the perfect time to chat with Andrew about this moment in history, that has helped to shape women's basketball today. Kyle Green (MMA nerd, Professor of Sociology at SUNY Brockport, and all around wonderful guy) joins as co-host as we dig into this fascinating story that teaches us much about basketball and also the history of the United States.…

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Episode 86: A Summer Sports Stories Reunion with Kyle Green and Tunisha Singleton 1:46:06

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The always charming and witty Kyle Green (Ph.D. in Sociology) and Tunisha Singleton (Ph.D. in Media Psychology) join the show to discuss the sports stories from the summer that are on our minds! Topics range from Las Vegas as a professional sports center point, watching big games and matches at Stadium Swim, the continued failures of UFC as an institution, and the misguided UNITUS apparel launch. Throughout the episode, we collectively feel all of the anger, frustration and excitement around our fandom and process it together. You can follow Tunisha on Twitter @TSingletonSay and Kyle @kylethegreen. More new episodes of Dear Adam Silver coming soon so please subscribe and share!…

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Episode 85: Maria Molteni is Back and Senda + Sedna are Here 1:22:28

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Dear Adam Silver listeners! It has been a minute! I am glad to be back at the mic and sharing a conversation that touches on themes of family, expectations of gender and health trauma all via the topics of basketball and astrology......very timely for Mother's Day. I am excited to share my conversation with interdisciplinary artist, educator, mystic and Team Captain of New Craft Artists in Action (NCAA) Maria Molteni, who is back on the show (first featured on Episode #32: Maria Molteni and Basketball Magic). Maria and I unpack the wonderfully complicated and nuanced Senda/Sedna zine that we worked on together this past November, which includes an essay about Senda Berenson (founder of women’s bball) and an essay about Sedna 90377 (Maria's favorite Trans-Neptunian Object). The printing of this zine coincided with the release of Maria’s Star Ball , which was created based on the design of the Cosmic Court in Fall River, MA that Maria painted alongside local students and NCAA members. On this episode we discuss the zine, the ball and all of the themes and concepts that they offer to us. Please be aware that Maria and I are very candid on this episode and discuss on our struggles with our body, some relating to infertility, and familial trauma. You can find the Senda/Sedna zine for sale here and the Star Ball on sale here and you can follow Maria on Instagram @strega_maria…

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Episode 84: Blake Gillespie on Basketball Amidst War in Ukraine 1:04:34

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Journalist, photographer and writer Blake Gillespie is back on the pod to discuss his article for SLAM entitled In War-Torn Ukraine, these Ukrainian Hoopers are Trying to Uplift Others Through the Power of the Game . Follow some of the basketball players mentioned in this story, including Natalia Yudytska who can be found @tasha_shorty and Dmytro “Smoove” Kryvenko, found @smooveukraine . You can also follow Blake and his every growing collection of hoops photos @sacredhoopsbook . Blake and his work have been featured on three previous episodes of Dear Adam Silver, including episodes 44, 48 and 81.…

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Episode 83: Dr. Johanna Mellis on Understanding History through Sports 1:01:45

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Dr. Johanna Mellis is an Assistant Professor of History at Ursinus College where her research focuses on international sport during the Cold War, namely in the Eastern Bloc and Hungary especially, in order to connect the local voices and experiences of Hungarian athletes to the IOC and broader international sport society. Her manuscript, Changing the Global Game: Hungarian Athletes and International Sport During the Cold War, examines Hungarian sportspeople’s interactions with the International Olympic Committee from 1948-1989. Changing the Global Game shows how Hungarian athletes, Socialist Hungarian state sport officials, and the IOC gradually realized by the 1960s that sporting cooperation with one another - and not East-West political clashes nor resistance - was the way to achieve their respective aims of sport success, career and financial stability, and political and institutional strength. Our conversation covers many different topics, but we do repeatedly come back to a consistent theme of unlearning our early understandings of world history through sport to form a better, more accurate, and historically inclusive narrative. You can follow Dr. Mellis's amazing and well curated Twitter feed @JohannaMellis . As I share in the podcast, my eyes have been opened to a multitude of different historical perspectives on sports through Dr. Mellis's Twitter account. Dr. Mellis also cohosts the End of Sport Podcast , a podcast on capitalist sport, labor, and justice for end times. The show features interviews with athletes, critical sports journalists, and fellow academics to explore all the ways that people use sport to harm others - i.e. through racist mascotry, the NCAA and higher ed’s exploitation of Black and Brown college athletic workers, sexual abuse and harassment, transphobia, and more. You can read Dr. Mellis's writing alongside her End of Sport cohosts in The Chronicle of Higher Ed , The Guardian , Time , The Baffler , and more. She also has sole-authored pieces with The Washington Post and Arizona State University’s Global Sport Matters . As always, thanks for listening! Please share, rate and review Dear Adam Silver wherever you get your podcasts.…

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Episode 82: Mikey Yates on the Joy of Slam Ups and Painting as a Form of Witness 59:50

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Mikey Yates is a painter currently based in Kansas City, MO and a resident at the Charlotte Street Foundation , where our interview took place. Mikey paints tiny moments that carry a significant weight to him, sometimes also engaging with historical world events. Basketball, his first love, comes up again in different scenes that he depicts and his rich, dynamic palette brings a glow and reverence to each of his paintings. Grateful to have the chance to talk shop with Mikey and unpack how his work, and deep appreciation for basketball, came to be. You can see and find out about his work here and be sure to follow him on Instagram @mikey_yates . Please rate and review Dear Adam Silver wherever you get your podcasts! Thanks for listening, as always.…

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Episode 81: Blake and Giovanni on Pickup B-ball and the Instagram Community 1:03:51

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Blake and Giovanni are on the pod today to discuss pickup basketball and the creative culture around the game. We touch on playing during COVID and post vaccines, including their personal experiences, and the ways they have used basketball and photography as a means to connect with other likeminded people around the world. Thank you to Blake and Giovanni for coming on the show. Follow them on instagram! Blake is @sacredhoopsbook and Giovanni is @hgnext . And feel free to listen to my earlier conversations with Blake, featured in Episode 44 and Episode 48. Thank you to all you listeners out there! Please subscribe to Dear Adam Silver, and if you already are subscribed, please share, rate and review wherever you find your podcasts. Thank you so much for all of your support.…

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Episode 80: Whereas Hoops with Noah Cohan and John Early 1:10:01

4 years назад1:10:01

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Noah Cohan and John Early who are on the show to discuss their project Whereas Hoops. Noah Cohan is the Assistant Director of American Culture Studies at Washington University St. Louis and is a previous Dear Adam Silve r guest from Episode 22 where he joined the show to discuss his book on fandom entitled We Average Unbeautiful Watchers . John Early is an artist and senior lecturer at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington university St. Louis. Their collective project Whereas Hoops was created to draw attention to the lack of basketball courts in Forest Park, which is located in St. Louis and is one of the biggest urban parks in the country.....but with all that space, there are still no basketball courts. Noah and John are working collaboratively to highlight this issue within its' proper historical context and hopefully correct it in the long term. Follow Whereas Hoops on Twitter and Instagram . Thank you to John and Noah for coming on and thank you to you all for listening! Please subscribe, share, rate and review Dear Adam Silver wherever you get your podcasts.…

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Episode 79: Sidelined by Julie DiCaro 57:23

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Episode 79 features a conversation with Julie DiCaro, author of the recently published book Sidelined: Sports, Culture and Being a Woman in America . This book unpacks sexism in sports media for fans and non-fans alike. Julie writes about her time in radio covering sports, to the harassment she has received herself from fans and listeners to her time in the sport for development world. Thank you to Julie for coming on and sharing about all that went into producing this book, including her personal experiences. You can read more of Julie's work on Deadspin , where she is a writer and editor, and hear more on her podcast The Ladies Room , which she cohosts with Jane McManus . Every week they dive into issues surrounding women and sports. You can follow her on Twitter @JulieDiCaro . Thank you, as always, to Bookman's Entertainment Exchange for sponsoring this episode. And you can pick up your own copy of Side Lined at Bookman's !…

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Episode 78: Brian Tran on the Excitement of the Play In Tournament 1:03:33

4 years назад1:03:33

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Long time Dear Adam Silver supporter and returning guest Brian Tran is back on the show to discuss our feelings about the first weekend of the NBA playoffs, including the play in tournament, the long standing question of whether refs and players are coworkers or colleagues, and our recent transition to sworn enemies as the Suns vs. Lakers series begins. Thank you to Brian for joining and indulging all of my emotional/over the top takes. And Happy Playoffs to all Dear Adam Silver listeners! Thank you for your support.…

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Episode 77: Glauco Adorno and Our Letters to Senda 1:00:48

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Glacuo Adorno is back on the pod today (listen to episodes 40, 25 and 3 for more)! Long time listeners will remember that we collaborated in Lithuania on a body of artwork made about women’s basketball pioneer Senda Berenson. We met while we were both in graduate school at Louisiana State university, when I was studying fine art and Glauco was studying art history and he is now a curator based in Rio de Janeiro. He is back on the pod today to read some of the letters that we wrote to Berenson while we were Lithuania, a part of this work which we have not shared before. Thank you to Glauco for coming on and being so willing to discuss this ongoing work and the hardships of the pandemic in Brazil right now. And thank you to you all for listening! Please share, subscribe, rate and review Dear Adam Silver wherever you get your podcasts. Please note that we recorded this episode on Zoom and the sound quality is a bit lower than usual.…

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Episode 76: Claude Johnson, Founder of the Black Fives Foundation 1:23:34

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