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Episode 99: Sister Meg (Smithson) Believes in the Knicks and Has Some Thoughts
Jun 7, 2026
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Episode 98: James Hamilton Returns for Olympics Rant/Ode + Posters Basketball Show Reflection/Season II Preview!
May 29, 2026
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Episode 97: Maria Molteni Returns
Apr 28, 2026
1h 35m 30s
Episode 97: Maria Molteni on Cosmic Courts, Corporate Cowardice, and Divine Losers
Apr 28, 2026
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Episode 96: Blake Gillespie on Basketball Hoops in Concentration Camps
Mar 31, 2026
1h 03m 35s
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| 6/7/26 | ![]() Episode 99: Sister Meg (Smithson) Believes in the Knicks and Has Some Thoughts | Sister of the Co- Host, Meg Smithson, is on to discuss her own journey with basketball and her on the ground takes on Knicks fever! Works Cited: Link to article about Mitchell Robinson's political beliefs. Please share, rate and review wherever you get your podcasts. | — | ||||||
| 5/29/26 | ![]() Episode 98: James Hamilton Returns for Olympics Rant/Ode + Posters Basketball Show Reflection/Season II Preview! | We are excited to welcome back Emmy Award-winning writer, comedian and producer James Hamilton to the show! James is the host of the Posters Basketball Show (season II coming soon...) and has worked with NBC Sports, VICE News, PBS, The Moth Radio Hour. He is on the show to discuss his experience covering the Winter Olympics and the nitty gritty behind producing a show like Posters. You can find James on both Instagram @thejamham and X @thejamham too. And Youtube and Tiktok!Please share, rate and review wherever you get your podcasts. | — | ||||||
| 4/28/26 | ![]() Episode 97: Maria Molteni Returns✨ | art practicebasketball+3 | Maria Molteni | New Craft Artists in ActionJoan's Ark | Tennessee | Maria Moltenibasketball art+3 | — | 1h 35m 30s | |
| 4/28/26 | ![]() Episode 97: Maria Molteni on Cosmic Courts, Corporate Cowardice, and Divine Losers | Dear Adam Silver favorite Maria Molteni is back on the show! Previously a guest on episodes 32 (and introduction to their art practice) and 85 (featuring a conversation about the collaborative Senda/Sedna zine), Maria joins to discuss their ever evolving multifaceted art practice, often made in dedication to and appreciation of basketball, a game they played growing up in Tennessee . This conversation focuses on the ongoing arc of their "Altars to the Sky" (intricate, symbolic and place based basketball court paintings which laid the foundations for a national public art movement), their near swish with the WNBA, and how their dreams were crushed by corporate cowardice.”Maria is magical. An artist's artist and a player's player. And it is always a pleasure to have their thoughtful and earnest voice on the show. You can follow Maria on Instagram @strega_maria and @mariamolteni_studioAnd check out all their work on their website here and support their work by purchasing a jersey or a ball! Click here to check out the work of New Craft Artists in Action (Maria is team captain) and you can follow the collective on Instagram here. You can follow their Substack Joan's Ark here Learn about and support the work of Arab Resource and Organizing Center here, which organizes to fight for racial and economic justice and the dignity and liberation of our Arab, and Muslim communities. You can also support the Muslim Justice League by clicking here. | — | ||||||
| 3/31/26 | ![]() Episode 96: Blake Gillespie on Basketball Hoops in Concentration Camps✨ | basketballimmigration policy+4 | Blake Gillespie | ICEWill Basketball In Concentration Camps Wake You To Action?+3 | AustraliaIran | basketballconcentration camps+6 | — | 1h 03m 35s | |
| 2/22/26 | ![]() Episode 95: Rafi Kohan says accountability is key to healthy trash talk + more✨ | trash talkaccountability+3 | Rafi Kohan | Association for Applied Sport PsychologyTrash Talk: The Only Book About Destroying Your Rivals That Isn't Total Garbage+1 | — | trash talkaccountability+3 | — | 1h 24m 23s | |
| 1/24/26 | ![]() Episode 94: Ivan Salcido and the Myth of Hoops✨ | artbasketball+3 | Ivan Salcido | Get in the GameDear Adam Silver | — | basketballartwork+3 | — | 53m 10s | |
| 11/27/25 | ![]() Episode 93: Maryam Amirvaghefi, My Personal Art Crush Who Embraces Losing✨ | artbasketball+3 | Maryam Amirvaghefi | — | — | Maryam Amirvaghefiart+4 | — | 50m 45s | |
| 10/16/25 | ![]() Episode 92: James Hamilton and the Why of It All✨ | basketball fandomaging in sports+3 | James Hamilton | PostersNBC Sports+3 | — | basketballJames Hamilton+5 | — | 1h 27m 11s | |
| 8/5/25 | ![]() Episode 91: Austin Bell and a Drone Over Every Court✨ | basketballdocumentary+3 | Austin Bell | Shooting Hoops | Hong Kong | Austin BellShooting Hoops+4 | — | 56m 10s | |
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| 1/7/25 | ![]() Episode 90: Whereas Hoops is back and a court has been built!✨ | basketballpublic space+3 | Noah CohanJohn Early | — | Forest ParkSt. Louis | basketball courtsForest Park+3 | — | 1h 04m 28s | |
| 10/19/24 | ![]() Episode 89: Mirin Fader and Dream: The Life and Legacy of Hakeem Olajuwon✨ | Hakeem Olajuwonbasketball+4 | Mirin Fader | The RingerBleacher Report+3 | — | Hakeem OlajuwonMirin Fader+5 | — | 54m 51s | |
| 7/14/24 | ![]() Episode 88: Talking Trash with Rafi Kohan and Kyle Green✨ | trash talksports rivalry+4 | Rafi Kohan | SUNY BrockportPublicAffairs+1 | — | trash talksports+5 | — | 1h 13m 03s | |
| 8/27/23 | ![]() Episode 87: Andrew Maraniss and Inaugural Ballers | 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. | — | ||||||
| 5/15/23 | ![]() Episode 85: Maria Molteni is Back and Senda + Sedna are Here | 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 | — | ||||||
| 9/29/22 | ![]() Episode 84: Blake Gillespie on Basketball Amidst War in Ukraine | 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. | — | ||||||
| 2/28/22 | ![]() Episode 83: Dr. Johanna Mellis on Understanding History through Sports | 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. | — | ||||||
| 7/12/21 | ![]() Episode 80: Whereas Hoops with Noah Cohan and John Early | 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 Silver 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. | — | ||||||
| 8/31/20 | ![]() Episode 57: Bradley Robert Ward on the Messy Process of Making Cyanotypes and His Recent Work About Baseball | Bradley Robert Ward is back on the pod (listen to Episode 21 for our previous conversation about bball and some of his older work!!) to discuss his research and new work about the Negro Leagues and his own relationship with baseball, as a fan, former player and image maker. Our conversation was timely for many reasons, one of them being that the 75th anniversary of Jackie Robinson signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers was just this past Friday, August 28. Bradley and I discussed the failures of MLB to adequately address the systemic racism that exists both in their past and contemporary existence and how this connects to a larger issue within the US, where BIPOC histories are regularly left out of the historical narrative and misremembered, romanticized or forgotten by our mainstream media. You can view Bradley's artwork on his website and follow him on Instagram here. Thank you to Bookman's for sponsoring this episode of Dear Adam Silver. | — | ||||||
| 8/29/20 | ![]() Episode 56: Thoughts on the Wildcat Strike in B-Ball with 2/3 of the Profs | Professor's of Sociology Kyle Green and Alex Manning, at SUNY Brockport and Hamilton College respectively, are back on the pod to discuss the last few days in the world of sports. Please keep in mind that this discussion was recorded on the evening of Thursday, August 27. You can follow Alex Manning on twitter here for discussion on the crossover between sports and sociology, and check out Kyle Green's website here. | — | ||||||
| 8/25/20 | ![]() Episode 55: Dwayne Mansfield on Hoops and Horticulture | Seattle based Art Director Dwayne Mansfield is on the show today to discuss his new and evolving brand Hoops and Horticulture and the concept behind his handmade basketball planters. His dedication to exploring the idea of growth through basketball and plants is at the crux of this work. Follow Hoops and Horticulture on Instagram here and please check out his Etsy store and support his work here. The planters are elegant, thoughtfully designed and a must have for any bball fan/plant collector. Thank you to Bookman's for sponsoring this episode of Dear Adam Silver. | — | ||||||
| 8/12/20 | ![]() Episode 53: Abdi Farah on the Excitement and Frustrations of the Bubble | New Orleans based artist Abdi Farah is back on the show to discuss many things including the highs of bubble basketball, the lows of sideline interviews and how it all relates to current happenings around the rest of the country. As a note, we recorded this episode before it was announced that the Big Ten and the Pac-12 will be postponing their fall athletic season. You can view and learn more about Abdi's artwork here. | — | ||||||
| 7/30/20 | ![]() Episode 52: The Potential of the NBA as a Space for Social Change and Some Reopening Ramblings with The Profs | Professors Kyle Green, Stephen Cho Suh and Alex Manning are on the pod to discuss their collectively written paper entitled Discursive Footwork on the Hardwood. This piece of writing focuses on four NBA players speaking out on the topics of cultural appropriation and both systemic and individual acts of racism through essays published on The Player's Tribune. The paper unpacks the possibilities and limitations of working to address and dismantle racism within the institution of the NBA, which is known to be a more progressive space in comparison to other major sports leagues in the United States. The four essays that are referenced and analyzed in the paper are linked to below. Blake Griffin Jason Collins Jeremy Lin Kyle Korver We also get into ALL of the WNBA/NBA reopening news, including how players and leagues will go about continuing their activism once they are on the court. Kyle Green is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at SUNY Brockport. Check out his website and learn more about his podcast Give Theory a Chance here. Stephen Cho Suh is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women’s & Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. Alex Manning is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Hamilton College. | — | ||||||
| 7/25/20 | ![]() Episode 51: The Momentum of Speak Up and Dribble | We all remember when Laura Ingraham told Lebron and KD to "Shut up and dribble." Her words, infused with racism and hate, were meant to keep two African-American men from speaking out on issues they care about, beyond their sport. The Speak Up and Dribble movement is a direct response to those racist comments as well as the ongoing protests against police brutality and in support of Black Lives Matter. The organizers gather children and adults to dribble basketballs through the streets and focus on the bounce of the ball as the heartbeat of those we have lost to systemic racism. I had the absolute pleasure to speak with the founders (six out of seven!) of this brilliant movement who have organized protests in their home city of San Francisco as well as offering support for similar happenings around the country. Please follow these wonderful groups that are using basketball to create change and foster community @speakupdribble and @the.hooper.mentality | — | ||||||
| 7/20/20 | ![]() Episode 50: Brooklyn Film Camera, Social Unrest and Racism in Photography with Kyle Depew | Kyle Depew is an activist, the owner of Brooklyn Film Camera, a wonderful photographer and a dear friend from my time living in New York City. Kyle and I first met when we worked together at The Impossible Project, which is a company that made new film for vintage Polaroid cameras (now known as Polaroid). After we both left Impossible, Kyle started his own company and shop called Brooklyn Film Camera in Bushwick where they sell film and film cameras of all types. In addition, BFC organizes events for image makers and film enthusiasts and their staff is available for photographing events. Kyle uses his love for photography to create and foster community and tell stories. He was a wonderful coworker and I'm grateful for his thoughtfulness and care. Check out and support Brooklyn Film Camera for all your film and camera needs (seriously, get an SX-70)! And follow them on instagram @brooklynfilmcamera. Please note that Kyle and I spoke over two weeks ago so, of course, much has happened since then that is not included in our discussion. | — | ||||||
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