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Ja Morant and the Grizzlies were up 14 points on the Lakers at halftime of Friday’s NBA Cup game. After halftime, Morant effectively stopped trying, and…

The New Orleans Pelicans are 0-6 to start the season. Of those six losses, three have been by at least 30 points. No team in NBA…

The best part of the first week of the NBA season is seeing preconceptions built up over a summer spent consuming season previews shattered by the…

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…

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…

At Defector, in our staff Slack, we have a slogan: Root For Your Guys (RFYG). It’s an ethic, and also very often an exhortation. As an…

Thursday’s federal arrests of Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier came with a large and surprising information dump. It took…

It’s one thing to open your season with a 40-point, 15-rebound masterwork, but it is quite another to discover in short order that such deeds are…

Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier were arrested Thursday morning as part of an ongoing federal investigation into two…

In our big NBA preview, I asked what it might look like if Victor Wembanyama adjusted his shot diet in order to replace a good chunk…