The Sacramento Kings played and lost what threatens to be the last meaningful basketball game of their season on Thursday night. There is plenty of evidence to suggest that it may also have been the ...

When F.C. Barcelona acquired Dani Olmo from RB Leipzig back in August, it did so despite clearly not being anywhere close to ...

These were the worst purchases by the Defector staff in 2024. Two Subscriptions To Paramount Plus I hate Paramount Plus.

Once your tub is full and sudsy, gently place the sweater in the bath. DO NOT AGITATE, DO NOT SCRUB. This is where felting ...

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You know how it is when you're starting a new job. There are new rules and systems to figure out, a new overall cadence and a bunch of new people, and some number of other, stranger, newer things ...

Basketball fans and league officials who were wringing their hands about the NFL encroaching on Christmas woke up on Wednesday to quite the treat. Spurs-Knicks was an incredible opener to an ...

At some point, I will write my screed against first-person fiction. Today is not that day, but nothing affirmed my opinion more than reading George Eliot's 1860 novel The Mill on the Floss. It's a ...

This is Defector, a new sports blog and media company. We made this place together, we own it together, we run it together. Without access, without favor, without discretion, and without interference.

Draymond Green … we'll wait a moment while you readjust your underwear … is the last living pre-modern basketball player, a time-traveler from the era when "everyone is just collateral damage to the ...