The Block, As Remembered By The Guy Who Called It And The Guy Who Let It Be | Defector Monty McCutchen remembers the play unfolding in front of him. With just under two minutes left in Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals, the game tied at 89, Golden State’s Andre Iguodala grabbed a rebound…

The block, as remembered by the guy who called it and the guy who let it be: defector.com/the-block-as...

Should I Take My Two-Year-Old To A Soccer Match Abroad, Or Can I Leave Him At Home? | Defector Welcome back to Minor Dilemmas, where a member of Defector’s Parents Council will answer your questions on surviving family life. Have a question? Email us at minordilemmas@defector.com. This week,…

This is Minor Dilemmas, where a member of Defector's Parents Council will answer your questions on surviving family life. Have a question? Email us at minordilemmas@defector.com.

Achieve Information Independence Via Defector’s Spring Sale | Defector When I survey energy markets—that is, when I gaze through binoculars at the gas station sign I can read from my home as long as there isn’t a big truck in the intersection—I see the disruptive…

Defector is simply the 26 worker-owners who staff the site, along with the 40,000 or so paid subscribers who sustain it. Become one of them for only $1.

Hark! Follow The Sounding Of The Horns To The 2026 NBA Playoff Preview | Defector Whoaaaa, get a load of this! The NBA playoffs are starting tomorrow. Yes yes, there are more play-in tournament games tonight, but we’re not here to talk about that. We’re here to talk about the real…

Hark! Follow the sounding of the horns to the 2026 NBA playoff preview: defector.com/hark-follow-...

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New York Islanders Raise Money For A Convicted Killer Because He's A Cop | Defector The New York Islanders took a moment during their final game of the season to promote a fundraiser for a former NYPD sergeant who was recently convicted of manslaughter. Yeah, sounds about right.…

New York Islanders raise money for convicted killer because he's a cop: defector.com/new-york-isl...

It's always been my dream to be the guy who tells another guy named Tom about Jon Bernthal for the first time.

The Killing That Won't Let Go | Defector Grief has no expiration date, and there’s no statute of limitations on murder. Twenty-one years ago this summer, Steve Cornejo was shot in the back and died in the courtyard of an apartment complex…

The killing that won't let go: defector.com/the-killing-...

Nothing But Respect Sports Podcast · Updated Weekly · The last uncompromised podcast hosted by Patrick Redford and Harry Krinsky.

The NBR playoff mega-preview is out now, starring @seankuhn.bsky.social @highkin.bsky.social @kylietcheung.bsky.social @ichotiner.bsky.social @eamonwhalen.bsky.social @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social @islemcelroy.bsky.social @maitreyiaa.bsky.social @toley.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

Achieve Information Independence Via Defector’s Spring Sale | Defector When I survey energy markets—that is, when I gaze through binoculars at the gas station sign I can read from my home as long as there isn’t a big truck in the intersection—I see the disruptive effects...

There is nothing keeping a trial subscriber from reading all five-and-a-half years of Defector during your $1 intro month and then tapping out. But I think the blogs sell themselves, and we're extruding new ones daily: defector.com/achieve-info...

President, Extremely Normal Brain-Wise: Pope Weak On Crime, Also I'm Dr. Jesus Christ | Defector The President of the United States, Donald Trump, is a deranged old pervert whose brain, long since sodden and pitted from a lifetime of indulgence and Diet Coke, is foaming out of his ears. Over the…

President, extremely normal brain-wise: Pope weak on crime, also I’m Dr. Jesus Christ defector.com/president-ex...

“Everyone’s saying Bill Simmons is crazy for making Payton Pritchard one of his Unicorn Of The Year nominees but I actually think there’s a good case to be made—“

Free Press Dipshit Humiliates Herself In Public Again | Defector By now, Free Press reporter Olivia Reingold has established her beat as doggedly reporting on her own humiliation. This is someone who excels not just at taking an L, but at putting all of her Ls in…

Free Press dipshit humiliates herself in public again:

Why We Fly | Defector It was a lovely day above the Moon. The Artemis astronauts did some science, took lots of pictures, didn’t die or get replaced by bodysnatchers, and perhaps most importantly, made me bawl a couple of ...

Barry's moon blogs have been so good, and this is the best of those. Really excellent stuff here: defector.com/artemis-moon...

This Election Is Too Darn Important To Be Left To Merciful Salad Eaters Albert Burneko on the pundits’ attempt to make Rahm Emanuel happen. *** A Basketball Team Can Be Sold, But Who Owns Its History? Ray Ratto on the questions raised by a potential NBA expansion team in Seattle. *** RFK Jr.’s Offal Advice Ben Wurgaft writes about the push to fix our broken food system with more meat.

Artemis Boldly Goes Where No Toilet Has Gone Before, by Barry Petchesky

Two Dazed Freshmen Authored The Tournament’s Immortal Moment, by Chris Thompson

Florida Picks A Stupid Fight Over The NFL’s Rooney Rule, by Samer Kalaf

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Journalism is better when it's backed by people, not markets: defector.com/products

Go Ahead and Use AI. It Will Only Help Me Dominate You. | Defector This piece was originally published on How Things Work, a newsletter by Hamilton Nolan. If you enjoy this, or the author’s previous work covering the NFL for Defector, you should subscribe to his…

Go ahead and use AI. It will only help me dominate you. defector.com/go-ahead-and...

Rejoice, Tired Parents! Defector Will Raise Your Children Now | Defector When Defector decided to get in on the market for parenting advice, there were many questions we had to consider. After all, there is no shortage of content on parenting at the moment: Oscar-winning…

Rejoice, tired parents! Defector will raise your children now. defector.com/rejoice-tire...

RFK Jr.’s Offal Advice | Defector In the supermarket or at the taco truck, whether it’s government subsidies for agriculture or the working conditions of food workers, food and politics are never far apart. Under the second Trump admi...

A rare treat to have @benwurgaft.bsky.social on the site with this searing, well-done piece

It’s Elite Eight Week of Middlemarch Madness Poor McTeague didn't stand a chance

This week, Defector's new culture newsletter The Span has an update on Middlemarch Madness: defector.beehiiv.com/p/it-s-elite...

The IOC decision today is so maddening. We already went through the whole process of having a testing policy and then realizing it was a terrible idea for a million different reasons and getting rid of it. This happened very recently!

The mayor absolutely flexed on us by posting a decent photo this morning.

Why I Got Out Of The Gambling Business | Defector There are broadly speaking two types of gamblers: valuable and not valuable. All are referred to as customers. The latter group  are dilettantes. These people deposit maybe once or twice, usually to…

Why I got out of the gambling business: defector.com/why-i-got-ou...

ICE agents deployed to nation's swamped airports to stand around and do nothing: defector.com/ice-agents-d...

We Have A New Culture Newsletter | Defector This week we are launching The Span, Defector’s first and only culture newsletter. Every other week, we will collect the best non-sports writing from Defector so that you won’t miss anything, and…

We have a new culture newsletter:

Team USA Lost For The Troops | Defector And here we see a shining example of the main peril of using sports as a reason to wrap oneself in the flag. When you look down and see that you’ve lost your pants, the flag makes a poor trouser subst...

"And here we see a shining example of the main peril of using sports as a reason to wrap oneself in the flag. When you look down and see that you've lost your pants, the flag makes a poor trouser substitute." defector.com/team-usa-los...

a good point she brought up: audits are very expensive! the NBA/NBPA devote a ton of $/resources to the annual BRI audit. a rev share system tied to net revenue, like the WNBA wants, would put even more work on the players to scrutinize the “expenses” owners are reporting and that’s *costly* work

Conner O'Malley has done it again

Fair Pay Feels Good In A Place Like This | Defector Half an hour into the Nitehawk Workers Union’s winter rally, 50 or so people had gathered across the street from the Nitehawk Prospect Park Theater to chant, hold signs, and shiver on a Friday too col...

For @defector.com, I wrote about the Nitehawk Workers Union, "saving movie theaters," and why humans respond to other humans defector.com/fair-pay-fee...

What Did The Migrating Bigfoot Family Know About This Ohio Meteor Explosion? | Defector On March 10, the Bigfoot Society noted an “unprecedented” multi-day mass migration of bigfoots—possibly bigfeet—in the vicinity of Portage County, Ohio. The “unidentified bipedal hominids” were moving...

❗breaking news❗what do the migrating bigfoots (bigfeet?) know ⁉️
a perfect @christhompson.bsky.social blog
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