Each weekday, I send out a newsletter called The Cipher to Defector Pal-level subscribers, which has a recap of the blog day, ...

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something ...

Derrick White, unglamorous secondary ball-handler for the defending champion Boston Celtics, does many things well. He’s a ...

There are times when the lag between when we record The Distraction (on Tuesday mornings) and when it goes up (the first ...

As loyal readers of Defector know, I am never wrong. I’ve certainly never written an article that was eventually proven to be ...

I stood on an empty stretch of the Alaska Highway and squinted north as the sky darkened. I had parked a couple of miles away ...

In Quincy, the 2018 documentary meant to capture the totality of Quincy Jones’s contributions to the last 70-plus years of ...

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The Golden State Warriors are evidently the dynasty that won’t die. It is a dynasty that will age and eventually expire, of course, because they all do, and maybe this will all collapse in a heap of ...