Welcome to the edge of sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziron. We have a bit of a truncated show this week, but you want to tune in because you're going to hear what I have to say about the National Basketball Association and vaccines,

which is what is on everybody's mind, especially as some of my favorite players are coming

forward as anti-vaccine, which is very tough to just get your head around.

So I try to make some sense of it.

Also I've got Jake's takes, Jake's takes!

And we're gonna learn who Jake is looking at

for the National Football League Week 4.

And then I'm gonna say goodbye

because we're going to Denver this weekend

and that's all I got to say about that.

All right, got family out there.

Not that you asked.

I've got some choice words to start off that I'm calling.

Being pro NBA player means being pro vaccine.

Okay, look, many of America's pro athletes are union workers, albeit union workers with a decidedly distorted social position relative to organized working class people more broadly.

They benefit greatly from collective bargaining, and as is the case for all workers, unions are a pro athletes best friend.

Just do your own investigation into what conditions and wages were like before unions.

Pro sports were part playground, part sweatshop. But while most athletes treasure their union,

they are also in a hyper-individualistic environment where individual contracts are signed

and competition for roster spots is fierce. This can be at odds with the development of

collective consciousness and solidarity.

Right now this contradiction is biting the NBA in the ass, as workplace safety is being challenged

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