EPISODE · Jun 5, 2023 · 1H 4M

Episode 110: "How Black Ball Saved the Soul of the NBA"

from The Way of Improvement Leads Home: American History, Religion, Politics, and Academic life. · host John Fea

The National Basketball Association is a multi-billion-dollar industry driven by Black athletes with global influence. But as our guest Theresa Runstedtler argues, the success of today's NBA players rests on the labor activism of 1970s NBA stars who fought with owners for economic control over their labor and a Black style of hoops born in the playgrounds of urban America. Runstedtler is the author of Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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