Moses Malone Gets Biblical
Edge of Sports
Dave Zirin / The Nation
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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This week, we speak to Paul Knepper about his new book, Moses Malone: The Life Of A Basketball Prophet. Also, we talked to the hoops savant Arya Shirazi about what we’ve learned so far this NBA season and which preseason prediction we wish we could do over.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziron, brought to you by The Nation |
| 0:16.0 | Magazine. We have such a great show this week. First and foremost, we're going to be talking to one of my favorite sports authors, Paul Nepper, |
| 0:23.9 | who has a book out called Moses Malone, The Life of a Basketball Profit. |
| 0:29.0 | If you are at all interested in the legendary three-time most valuable player, |
| 0:33.9 | you have to check this out. |
| 0:36.4 | Moses Malone, the life of a basketball profit. |
| 0:39.9 | Also, speaking to hoops, I'm going to be talking to the savant, Aria Shirazi, about the various |
| 0:46.6 | moving targets in the National Basketball Association this year. |
| 0:51.6 | And which one of our preseason predictions are we most proud of? |
| 0:56.0 | And which do we wish we could have a do-over on? |
| 0:59.1 | But first and foremost, before we get to Aria, |
| 1:01.9 | let's talk to Paul Nepper about Moses Malone, |
| 1:04.9 | The Life of a Basketball Prophet. |
| 1:15.2 | The book is Moses Malone, The Life of a Basketball Prophet. |
| 1:17.1 | The author is Paul Nepper. |
| 1:18.5 | We're thrilled to have him on the show. |
| 1:19.6 | Paul, how you doing, sir? |
| 1:21.0 | I'm doing great. |
| 1:22.2 | Thanks for helping me on, Dave. |
| 1:24.9 | All right, we got to start for our young listeners here. |
| 1:31.5 | Let's talk about Moses Malone. My personal view is that of the top 20 players to ever play in the NBA, he is the most underrated. And proof of that is that in some of |
| 1:39.5 | these top 20 lists, you don't even see Moses Malone. So please, for our listeners, make the case for |
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