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Turning on the 11 pm Nuggets game and seeing a 20-minute countdown to tipoff on the screen… am I simply a worm? Am I a bug to you, Adam Silver??
November 12, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Turning on the 11 pm Nuggets game and seeing a 20-minute countdown to tipoff on the screen… am I simply a worm? Am I a bug to you, Adam Silver??
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contribute to our tip jar and enter the raffle to journey on our dime and either watch us flail around in a rented professional kitchen (option 1) or flail around in a rented professional kitchen alongside us (option 2) defector.com/help-secure-...
Help Secure Our Financial Independence By Infiltrating The Great Blogger Bake Shop | Defector
Last year, Defector’s operations geniuses submitted our annual Tip Jar drives for consideration in the Online Journalism Awards category of “Innovation in Revenue Strategy” for mid-size newsrooms. We ...
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November 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
contribute to our tip jar and enter the raffle to journey on our dime and either watch us flail around in a rented professional kitchen (option 1) or flail around in a rented professional kitchen alongside us (option 2) defector.com/help-secure-...
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media criticism lives: defector.com/everybody-st...
Everybody Stand Down: New Yorker Columnist's Child Doesn't Care About Sports Gambling | Defector
In the final hours before the Nov. 1 UFC bout between featherweights Isaac Dulgarian and Yadier Del Valle, the betting odds on Dulgarian, the favorite, abruptly dropped from -250, meaning a bettor wou...
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November 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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they don't want you to know that orlando's starters (suggs bane franz paolo wcj) are +19.1 per 100 possessions, fourth most played lineup in the league btw, starters with black subbed in for suggs are +8.2,,
November 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
they don't want you to know that orlando's starters (suggs bane franz paolo wcj) are +19.1 per 100 possessions, fourth most played lineup in the league btw, starters with black subbed in for suggs are +8.2,,
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The Sacramento Kings are an abomination: defector.com/the-kings-ar...
The Kings Are An Abomination | Defector
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — During the break between the first and second quarters, the Sacramento Kings interrupted one anti-competitive spectacle with another. Six babies lined up to race, only to hear the...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The Sacramento Kings are an abomination: defector.com/the-kings-ar...
orlando's wearing black tonight, smart
Over the weekend, Jaylen Brown had two incidents in which some kind of dark residue on his head, possibly applied to simulate a hairline, appeared to smear onto the clothing of opposing players. defector.com/jaylen-brown...
Jaylen Brown's Really Leaving His Mark On Opponents | Defector
Carlos Boozer’s twin sons are top prospects for the 2026 NBA draft, but he may have yet another legacy in the league: artificial hair. It would appear that Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown is…
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November 8, 2025 at 12:31 AM
orlando's wearing black tonight, smart
holy moly: kalimalone.bandcamp.com/track/a-soun...
A Sound That Is Alive, by Kali Malone + Drew McDowall
from the album Magnetism
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November 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Oh hell yeah Christmas in November
Today on Twitch, join @girinathan.bsky.social @redford.bsky.social and @remas.bsky.social for another episode of Colossal Ponderings. Let's raise our status to the maximum.
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November 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Oh hell yeah Christmas in November
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I'm not sure how many writers there are in the world who communicate clearly or more directly than Albert, but it can't be that many.
Dick Cheney departs the world he made: defector.com/dick-cheney-...
Dick Cheney Departs The World He Made | Defector
At its heart, American conservatism is a fantasy. It’s a vision of a world too evil to be saved or cared about, and fearsome enough to justify any and every impulse toward cruelty and violence that a…
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November 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I'm not sure how many writers there are in the world who communicate clearly or more directly than Albert, but it can't be that many.
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Toronto will never get over this: defector.com/toronto-will...
Toronto Will Never Get Over This | Defector
Baseball makes you feel bad. I don’t mean that in a literate sense ripping off Bart Giamatti’s lede, the sense of dreading a sullen winter spent longing for the sensory pleasures of the game. I mean…
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November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Toronto will never get over this: defector.com/toronto-will...
it's so funny that the highest-leverage play of the season came down to spinning around and trying to step in the right place. beautiful, goofy sport.
November 2, 2025 at 3:58 AM
it's so funny that the highest-leverage play of the season came down to spinning around and trying to step in the right place. beautiful, goofy sport.
"happy halloween"
-- the fellas
-- the fellas
October 31, 2025 at 9:12 PM
"happy halloween"
-- the fellas
-- the fellas
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come bake—and I cannot stress this enough—with us: defector.com/help-secure-...
Help Secure Our Financial Independence By Infiltrating The Great Blogger Bake Shop | Defector
Last year, Defector’s operations geniuses submitted our annual Tip Jar drives for consideration in the Online Journalism Awards category of “Innovation in Revenue Strategy” for mid-size newsrooms. We ...
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October 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
come bake—and I cannot stress this enough—with us: defector.com/help-secure-...
lots of people who Do Data Online are principally interested in telling you how smart they are. nick is the opposite of that: genuinely invested in advancing public knowledge and helping people learn. we are richer for his work; i'll miss so much of it happening in public.
it's my last stream today so stop by if you haven't -- and if you have, stop by again! streaming all night twitch.tv/nickwan_data...
nickwan_datasci - Twitch
data science
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October 29, 2025 at 11:34 PM
lots of people who Do Data Online are principally interested in telling you how smart they are. nick is the opposite of that: genuinely invested in advancing public knowledge and helping people learn. we are richer for his work; i'll miss so much of it happening in public.
NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is: defector.com/products
October 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is: defector.com/products
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If you went to bed before the conclusion of that 18-inning marathon World Series game, Ray Ratto has a message for you:
If You Went To Sleep, Sorry But You Are Not Forgiven | Defector
I think we can all agree we got cheated last night, and to be technical about it, it was still last night—at least on the West Coast where the nice people live—when Freddie Freeman hit the 609th pitch...
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October 28, 2025 at 9:03 AM
If you went to bed before the conclusion of that 18-inning marathon World Series game, Ray Ratto has a message for you:
this whole thing smacks of daniel mccutchen's heroic relief appearance against the braves in 2011,
October 28, 2025 at 6:47 AM
this whole thing smacks of daniel mccutchen's heroic relief appearance against the braves in 2011,
if you haven't yet read that big feature on gooning this has been a good primer
October 28, 2025 at 5:45 AM
if you haven't yet read that big feature on gooning this has been a good primer
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shohei ohtani makes me want to have children so I can have grandchildren so I can tell them about him
October 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
shohei ohtani makes me want to have children so I can have grandchildren so I can tell them about him
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"There's not even a hint, in any mainstream sports-media conversation about this scandal, that legalized sports gambling may have been a bad idea." - @redford.bsky.social
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The NBA Media Is Not Built To Cover A Gambling Scandal | Defector
Hours after the FBI arrested Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billups, and published a pair of indictments detailing the former’s alleged involvement in a cooked prop-bet unders scheme and the latter’s alleg...
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October 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
"There's not even a hint, in any mainstream sports-media conversation about this scandal, that legalized sports gambling may have been a bad idea." - @redford.bsky.social
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supremely grateful to be sufficiently healthy for a favorite fall tradition: getting cooked by a middle schooler in the neighborhood 5k 🥲
October 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
supremely grateful to be sufficiently healthy for a favorite fall tradition: getting cooked by a middle schooler in the neighborhood 5k 🥲
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What can't the president do? defector.com/what-cant-th...
What Can't The President Do? | Defector
Donald Trump bulldozed the East Wing of the White House this week, so that he can build a ballroom with a footprint nearly twice the size of the existing White House, financed by blatant graft. The Wh...
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October 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
What can't the president do? defector.com/what-cant-th...
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my favorite thing about the NBA is the product
April 29, 2025 at 1:57 AM
my favorite thing about the NBA is the product
"All of it, in the end, becomes a question of what you will settle for, and how much you are willing to bear in exchange for a chance at making things less unbearable.
But in a time of monsters, you can at least respect yourself."
But in a time of monsters, you can at least respect yourself."
I wrote about the degrading choices our political system forces on us, the importance of respecting yourself, and the time I experienced a mild Oliver Stone moment at Sammy's Deluxe in Rockland, Maine. defector.com/what-job-is-...
What Job Is A Guy With A Nazi Tattoo Qualified For? | Defector
The man that my wife and I found ourselves talking to at the bar of a restaurant in Rockland, Me. in the summer of 2019 had arrived in town as your fancier visitors do, which is by boat. He told us th...
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October 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
"All of it, in the end, becomes a question of what you will settle for, and how much you are willing to bear in exchange for a chance at making things less unbearable.
But in a time of monsters, you can at least respect yourself."
But in a time of monsters, you can at least respect yourself."