The inevitable has happened. The Phoenix Suns have traded Kevin Durant to the Houston Rockets, as first reported by Shams ...

A week before I was hired at Defector, I decided to quit vaping. This was kind of a while ago now, but I still have good days ...

Fifty years ago, the hot comedy skit was Saturday Night Live’s “Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead!”, a play on the ...

For the first time in American sports history, a team has been sold on an 11-figure valuation. News broke Wednesday that the ...

The best pitchers in baseball were going to pitch on the same day! In the same place! Walking distance from my home! On a day I didn’t have to work! This dream confluence would give me a chance to ...

Reading or watching the news has become a real nightmare for me, as I imagine it must be for anyone reading this. Each day seems to bring some new horror or tragedy, and if the non-stop procession of ...

On Thursday night the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres, who do not like each other, completed a four-game series in ...

True heat—the overwhelming hot wall that hits you the minute you step out of a door, that takes your breath and makes it into ...

When it comes to my daughter, I try to live in the moment. I stumbled into this paradigm in March of 2023, when Nora was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder at the age of 2. Nora is 4 now—a fiery, ...

It seemed like a small thing at the time. Before last Saturday’s game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco ...

The Pacers and Thunder have constructed a series that has put the lie to the notion that there are insurmountable leads in ...

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.