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About Paul Knepper
Paul Knepper used to cover the Knicks for Bleacher Report. His first book, The Knicks of the Nineties: Ewing, Oakley, Starks and the Brawlers That Almost Won It All was published in September 2020.Paul Knepper covered the Knicks for Bleacher Report and is the author of The Knicks of the Nineties: Ewing, Oakley, Starks and the Brawlers That Almost Won It All. His next book, a biography of Moses Malone, will be out in 2025. You can reach Paul at paulknepper@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter @paulieknep.
NBN Episodes hosted by Paul:
November 17, 2024
Michigan Vs. Everybody
In Michigan Vs. Everybody: Inside the Wolverines’ 2023 National Championship Season (Triumph Books, 2024), The Detroit News' Angelique Chengelis exper…
November 2, 2024
Dream
It’s now the norm for NBA and collegiate teams to have international players dotting their rosters. The Olympics are no longer a gimme for Team USA. B…
October 27, 2024
The End of College Football
In The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game (UNC Press, 2024), Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva offer an existential c…
October 18, 2024
The Six Pack
In 2005, Brad Balukjian left his position as a magazine fact-checker to pursue a dream job: partner with his childhood hero, The Iron Sheik (whose rea…
August 23, 2024
Mind Game
In growing numbers, athletes are speaking up about their struggles with mental illness—including high-profile stars such as Michael Phelps, Kevin Love…
July 24, 2024
Pipeline to the Pros
Today I talked to Ben Kaplan about his new book (co-authored with Danny Parkins) Pipeline to the Pros: How D3 Small-College Nobodies Rose to Rule the …
June 7, 2024
A Baseball Gaijin
Like many American boys, Tony Barnette yearned to one day make it to “The Show,” playing baseball professionally. The Arizona State pitcher was drafte…
April 26, 2024
Kings of the Garden
In Kings of the Garden: The New York Knicks and Their City (Three Hills, 2024), Adam J. Criblez traces the fall and rise of the New York Knicks betwee…
April 17, 2024
Big Cat
Johnny Mize was one of the greatest hitters in baseball’s golden age of great hitters. Born and raised in tiny Demorest, Georgia, in the northeast Geo…
March 27, 2024
The Wingmen
It was 1953, the Korean War in full throttle, when two men—already experts in their fields—crossed the fabled 38th Parallel into Communist airspace ab…
March 22, 2024
Roberto Alomar
Roberto Alomar was not just a five-tool Hall of Famer; he was a magician on the diamond, a generational talent whose defensive wizardry left teammates…
January 13, 2024
When the Game Was War
Four historic teams. Four legendary players. One unforgettable season. The 1980s were a transformative decade for the NBA. Since its founding in 1946…
December 9, 2023
Marty Glickman
For close to half a century after World War II, Marty Glickman was the voice of New York sports. His distinctive style of broadcasting, on television …
October 6, 2023
Mountaintop
When the 1997 college football season began, the once-mighty Michigan Wolverines were dismissed nationally as a relic of a bygone era. Michigan had po…
September 18, 2023
The One Hundred Most Important Players in Baseball History
Baseball lore and history is filled with many valuable players, and not all of them are the Hall of Famers you know. In The One Hundred Most Importan…
August 16, 2023
Earl the Twirl
Today I talked to Earl Careton about his new book (co-authored with Jake Uitti), Earl the Twirl: My Life in Basketball (McFarland, 2023) Earl "The Tw…
June 11, 2023
Baseball's Endangered Species
Scouting has been called pro baseball’s personalized way of renewing itself from year to year and a pathway to the game’s past. It takes a very speci…
April 26, 2023
Roy White
Roy White played on the New York Yankees from 1965 through the 1979 season. Roy grew up on the tough streets of Compton and created a successful all-s…
March 11, 2023
Black Ball
Against a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial desegregation and strident calls for Black Power, the NBA in the 1970s embodied the nation’s imagin…
February 22, 2023
Spies on the Sidelines
Kevin Bryant's Spies on the Sidelines: The High-Stakes World of NFL Espionage (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022) is first book to fully explore the extraord…
February 11, 2023
Figure It Out
Simply put, Mike Westhoff is the greatest special teams coach in National Football League history. Sharp-witted, creative, and intensely focused, West…
December 11, 2022
Lost in the Game
For players, coaches, writers, and fans, basketball is a science and an art, a religious sacrament, a source of entertainment, and a way of interactin…
November 24, 2022
The NBA in Black and White
“There’s a basic insecurity with Black guys my size,” Scott writes. “We can’t hide and everybody turns to stare when we walk down the street. … Whites…
November 10, 2022
Muggsy
Growing up, Muggsy Bogues was always told he should do something else, anything besides basketball. He never acknowledged his many doubters except to …