Dear Adam Silver

Maryam Amirvagehfi is back on the show (first featured in episode 28) to discuss her art practice in the context of a book that Abigail and Kyle are writing about basketball and art (more on this soon!!!!).

Maryam's work is is quirky, pointed, playful and heavy with the language of sports. It is always a pleasure to discuss her process and approach.

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Kyle Green cohosts as we welcome Emmy Award-winning writer, comedian and producer James Hamilton to the show. We talk about aging as a basketball fan and player, favorite jerseys, dusty GOAT lists and what keeps us coming back for more. James has worked with NBC Sports, VICE News, PBS, The Moth Radio Hour and his new podcast, Posters, will be dropping soon, so be sure to keep an ear out!

You can find James on both Instagram @thejamham and X @thejamham too. And Youtube and Tiktok!

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Austin Bell joins the show to talk all about his project and book Shooting Hoops, where he documented 2,549 in Hong Kong. Whew. That's a lot.

We dig into the process, the visuals, the energy of each court and what is up next for Austin, including the release of some Shooting Hoops shirts, which we desperately want!

You can find Austin @austinwonderland on Instagram and you can buy his book here. The book is a beautiful object besides being educational about basketball in Hong Kong and the larger region. Get a copy! And check out his other projects here and here.

Kyle Green co-hosts and we are here to laugh and talk about bball.

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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,

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!

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.

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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.

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.

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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

Blake and his work have been featured on three previous episodes of Dear Adam Silver, including episodes 44, 48 and 81.