For the first time in sports media history, Defector is now publishing a podcast about, get this, basketball. Nothing But Respect makes its Defector debut today, and to mark the occasion, my co-host ...

Defector’s own Giri Nathan is the father of an insanely great new baby and the author of an insanely great new book. Just as ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew ...

John Wall announced his retirement from professional basketball on Tuesday, according to a tweet by ESPN’s Shams Charania.

Defector turns five next month. At last week’s offsite meetings, we celebrated that accomplishment and talked seriously about ...

The Platonic ideal of a chameleon, at least for those of us with televisions, is a small, somewhat nervous-looking reptile ...

Some people are fans of the Pittsburgh Steelers. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Pittsburgh Steelers. This ...

It’s tough being a dad. It’s even tougher raising a young woman in a horrifying patriarchal society that is constantly ...

Musab Al-Debs has lost 75 percent of his body weight. The 14-year-old reportedly weighed 40 kilograms (88 pounds) before he ...

There’s a way this Washington Mystics season could have been kind of tedious. In the offseason, and again at the August trade deadline, the rebuilding team swapped its veterans for a collection of ...

Michael “Curious Mike” Porter Jr. has made another podcast appearance. The former Denver Nugget and prolific podcaster was traded to the Brooklyn Nets a few months ago, simultaneously putting him in a ...