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redford.bsky.social
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'The Rider' is the best book ever written about sports. Here is my case: defector.com/why-the-ride...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

new NBR! Me and @redford.bsky.social talking all things finals with @yourmandevine.bsky.social!! We get a full finals scene report, talk OKCs depth, chet hang pulls, aaron wiggins, OKC as a sneaky 'lime scooters everywhere' town and of course try to figure out if Obama read the ock sportello blog

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Returned to NOTHING BUT RESPECT to commune with the gods @redford.bsky.social + @lexaprotools.bsky.social over the NBA Finals, the dark magic of shot-making, Aaron Wiggins being cool, how insecurity + shame fuel my gamer-writing, Lime scooters, etc.: nothingbutrespect.substack.com/p/straight-l...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

i love being a fan of the Valkyries, who are flying defector.com/the-golden-s...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

A judge set David Huerta free today after ICE attacked, injured, and unjustly detained him for standing up for immigrant workers. But this fight isn’t over. Thousands are still detained. We won’t stop until ALL our people are free. #FreeDavidEndRaids seiuca.org/press-releas...

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

the pacers make me feel crazy because it’s like they have made every single bad shot they have ever taken in the last four minutes of every game and yet it all feels totally logical

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

this is so good

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

“why is new york always electing crappy and insane mayors.” the mayoral sash, regardless of city, is an object that causes madness in its wearer. it’s like you’re asking why someone grasping the palantir with both hands is talking to sauron

submitted 12 days ago • 16 comments

What world does bitcoin want to build for itself? I spent last week at the Bitcoin Conference in Vegas trying to find out: defector.com/what-world-d...

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

haven't laughed this hard in months defector.com/dave-mckenna...

submitted 17 days ago • 23 comments

"Fonseca demands attention, and he performs, displaying a magnetic brand of confidence in his equally magnetic game. I can't look away." defector.com/joao-fonseca...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Eric Adams just told the Bitcoin Conference, “You are the Betsy Ross of today”

submitted 18 days ago • 19 comments

The Tyrese Haliburton thing where he ostentatiously spins and looks away after throwing a pass = GMO-infused monocrop factory aura farming

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

harry details the following image on this week's Nothing But Respect, tap in

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

I am going to the Bitcoin Conference in Vegas next week. If you are also going or know where the high-roller parties are, hmu, let's link/build

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

Me and @redford.bsky.social had @maitreyiaa.bsky.social on to talk all things WNBA on this weeks NBR. If you start the ep right now you’ll have everything you need to #valktheline podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

The New York Times really asked Ms. Rachel if she's paid by Hamas: defector.com/the-new-york...

submitted 31 days ago • 15 comments

✨🏀 The (fifth!) annual Defector WNBA preview is up today! always fun to work on these…last year a player’s dad emailed me to complain about something I wrote lol defector.com/2025-wnba-se...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

For A Limited Time: On Steph Curry as comedian. defector.com/for-a-limite...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.

submitted 31 days ago • 80 comments

This is tomorrow!

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

some news: I'm writing a book about BUGS 🐛

submitted 32 days ago • 53 comments

How the Japanese-American basketball leagues built Natalie Nakase: defector.com/how-the-japa...

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

“Physicality” is the word of the playoffs. I tried to puzzle out exactly what that means: defector.com/physicality-...

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

Andrew Nembhard is the Derrick White of Fred VanVleets

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

“Physicality” is the word of the playoffs. I tried to puzzle out exactly what that means: defector.com/physicality-...

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

Next month's Defector Book Club is my favorite sports book of all-time: The Rider defector.com/defector-rea...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Steph is so good that he made a whole generation of Warriors fans who already got their fairytale ending think they might get a second

submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments