Well, carrying out a brief analysis of what was mentioned, I also believe that the Lakers have a little hope to get a seed in these playoffs, but for that to happen they need to be impeccable in the next games, as this will be something decisive for them. ..
OKC, Timberwolves, Mavs and Jazz, these are the other teams that are in a similar situation to the Lakers, that is, it will be extremely close competition for any team to get the last remaining seeds for these playoffs.
That's the result now of the Lakers losing too many games in the early to mid-season. Yeah, those games early in the season, when AD and Lebron was injured and WB, well not playing good as a Lakers and he has been the escape goat. So they are now trying to catch the last end of the playoffs or play in. Aside from they really badly need to win their remaining games, they also need to depend on losing those teams above them.
If only they managed to get on a good track in their early games, they will still be in the close competition in the play-in but not in the status they are now currently that they need to depend on other teams losing their respective games just for Lakers to make a chance for a playoff spot.
They have 2 games that they could easily win. But they still have a good chance, although it might not be in their hands. All they can do is pray for those teams that they are juggling for position to lose their remaining games. |
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Back over months is reddish, I could hardly think about bitcoin as anything good soon but it seem like there will be positive green movement this mid of the year coming. Bitcoin can never be overrated sometimes it will destroys your feelings, sometimes it will bring excited, dudes, is been a while we reap the juicy part of bitcoin. 3 days now is looking greenish with improvement I hope the pump starts soon enough, this green looks real positive
After 3 days your thread was created, and the bitcoin price seems like a correction today, I hope you are still there, Don't panic and change your mind. Usually, when a newbie talks about optimism while prices are in positive green, he will be very scared and start thinking about selling the asset when the price dumping immediately like today. Are you okay? We are back though, the price is again above $28k after a correction due to the Fed interest rate. But it was just short lived, and we love how the market reacted, goes down a bit and then investors doesn't care about that negative news anymore. So yeah, the bulls is back in the market again, we have like 7 days to close March and everything is looking good. We can only hope that $30k could still be reach at the end of the month. But again, if we are still in the bullish momentum then it will continue to grow in April. |
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So who do you guys think is the best team in the NBA right now? Much like college basketball and the current tournament going on, I feel like there is a great deal of parity inside the NBA. I honestly can't say who I think has the best chance at winning it all this year, and normally it's pretty easy to at least make a couple guesses. I guess the Phoenix Suns are one of those teams, perhaps the Milwaukee Bucks are another. Then you've got the Celtics and teams like the 76'rs.
Really odd time in the NBA right now to be honest. I love it though.
The balance has tip to the East right now, as you have said, Boston took the lead, and then Giannis and Bucks overtake them after the all start break. Now the Sixers is pushing as well and Joel Embiid cemented his case for the MVP race. While on the West it's the Nuggets, but they seems to struggle in their last 10 games, Memphis? Nah, I don't think they have the guts to win with or without Ja Morant. Warriors is not the same team anymore, while Phoenix without KD can't make it to the Finals. |
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Let's see about this one, I'm under the impression that this fight could easily be made since Crawford has no promotional ties and we have seen him and Oscar in public.
It's also a mandatory fight, so he'll have to accept the challenge, and I think there will be no problem with that even without the promoter since it's already mandatory. So maybe he will accept this fight as compare to the Thurman vs Spence which might take some time to make as both are boxing diva and maybe wanted more money for that big fight.
it's a different to Crawford, I'm not sure what happen here but Thurman vs Spence should be an exciting fight to watch, and when it comes to money matters, I guess Spence should be the one dictating the slice since he is the more popular fighter and a champion. Just to be clear though, even if it is mandatory, these boxers may or may not follow the organization. There are a lot of instances already in the past, just like Spence fight, he should be fighting his mandatory but he was allowed to pick Thurman here. It's always been money if the fight is going to be delayed, unless either one of them has back out of the fight and doesn't want it anymore. But I do agree that Spence should get the lion share here. Thurman is no longer the champion and has been out in the boxing, and his last win against Barrios in not that impressive. |
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Sadly, this fight is not going to happen. Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk undisputed title fight is now offI knew that something like that was going to happen, because there were to many issues already to organize that fight. Like always, it seems that it is all about money. I felt that Fury was planning to make this fight as a his last fight, so he wanted to get the biggest purse as possible. Also it looks like Fury isnt interested in boxing anymore. He has achieved a lot already. His last fight with Chisora is an indicator of my guess. Yeah, in the beginning it was just the issue of the venue, but maybe when their Middle East contacts didn't agree with what they are asking, then Fury switch stands wanted more money and that starts the finger pointing about the contract, the purse split and other issues. And even if they are being pushed by the boxing body, there's no clear path for this fight, all they have is a date that's it. As the fight date gets closer and still there are no negotiations except in media, then all signs point that this fight is really on jeopardy. |
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Good for you if you have made profits already when the price hits $28k because it seems that we have a correction already. And so it's true, we never know the price movement. We were all hinting that the price might go to $30k for this month as this is our goal.
But when the FEDs seems to released their numbers and it's not very positive, the market reacted obviously.
However, we are still very good above $27k and I wouldn't be surprised to see the price going back to $28k++ again.
Good luck though in your goal to open a business with the profits that you are going to make in this run.
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In fairness to Golden State Warriors though, this team is already proven to always show "big changes" once playoffs come.
Disregarding how bad they are and not well-performing in a season, that all will be erased once playoffs come and every team will start at a 0-0 standing.
I will still treat them as a big deal in the Western Conference once playoffs come. Prior to that though, they need to make the playoffs first, and looking at the current competition in the West, too tight that almost 9 teams are all possible to be in the play-in tournament. Grizzlies destroyed them last night. The best player for Warriors was Kuminga, that tells us something's wrong. I don't think Warriors can go far enough even if they get a spot in play-off. It was only JD that has been shooting consistently with the Warriors against the Memphis team. Curry and Klay just combine for 30 points and then Poole, contributed by Donte was out of the game. I've just watched Pistons game and they were very close to win the game. The experience difference was the big factor in last minutes and Heat made a 10-0 run and won the game. Huge win for Heat though. They may pass Nets and steal the sixth spot if Nets keep losing games.
Yeah, I thought that it will be close, but then again, Butler and Herro had made their runs, 10-0 and the inexperience Pistons doesn't have any answers. Miami experience really shows and I guess perfect time for Herro so catch his shooting from, with 3's. |
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Good news for fans of "No Mercy" Gesta, he won against Jojo Diaz, judges score the fight in his favor, Alejandro Rochin (99-91) and Pat Russell (98-92), while the other judges, hehehe, maybe he is watching other fight because the score is somewhat questionable, Judge Pam Hayashida (97-93).
I just wonder though if Ryan Garcia fought Gesta, maybe there could be upsets as well, hehehe.
In any case, good for Gesta, his career can move on and most likely fight for another day. While for Diaz, no longer the hype on his name, probably this weight for his is too much, maybe it's better to go down to 130 lbs.
I watched the highlight of the fight, and it seems Gesta is a bit tired on the 4th round, aside from that, I felt that Gesta movement is a bit stiff even though he is moving from side to side pretty well. The jobs helps Gesta in securing the fight, though it would be devastating for him if he was caught when he leans his head forward without any defense. That should be one of the flaw Gesta need to fix on his next fight. All in all, I think the fight is pretty close every round it is that Gesta jobs more than his opponent securing each round. Yeah, it may have been the big finish of Gesta that improved his winning chance. The jabs did help to score more and the judges may have seen something that is worth giving him the victory. Diaz may have defended some of it well but the flurry of jabs does look like Gesta landed more than blocked or avoided. As for Diaz's career, this should not be the end of it but he needs to clear his name first and fix those legal issues that were thrown at him. I didn't know that card had so many issues that happened. The main event was canceled due to Ramirez missing weight so Gesta versus Diaz was moved to the main event. Then, Diaz was also at 139 lbs. but thankfully it still happened. Boxing and weighing. I hope Ryan Garcia will make weight and then the other weigh in before the match starts that was written in their clause. It's just the numbers though, Gesta is the more busier fighter in this fight, the volume could be enough for the judges to score the fight for him. Diaz might have the best punch, but it was Gesta's workrate that secure the victory for him. I don't think though that Ryan will make the same mistake, his fight with Davis is high profile, so everything must be perfect for him. Trainings and food intake and of course the pre and during the fight weigh-in. |
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It's really Jason Moloney who is available during the time WBO ordered the fight but since he backed out, Santiago received a big opportunity to fight for a world title and this would be the biggest fight of his career.
Yes this is a big fight of his career and it's not impossible for him to win, having a 3 consecutive wins last year and a much younger than Donaire, he stand a chance. Though, it won't be easy since Donaire is an experienced boxer and already prove his worth. He might came from a loss with Inoue but it's a motivation for him to redeem himself and be a champion again. Anyway, is the date for this fight set already? It's better to think that Santiago is going to give Donaire a good fight, as most of us here think that Donaire will win easily. You know, when Donaire's opponent is aggressive, it usually results in an entertaining fight, regardless of the outcome. So let's hope that will be the scenario come fight night. As of now, Donaire is still the favorite, but that's expected already since Donaire has a better ranking than Santiago. Yes, that the correct mindset, not going to be easy sailing for Donaire here, this is for the belt and of course Santiago wanted to be a champion as well. And even if he like rank 6, Donaire shouldn't be underestimating him. On the other hand, Donaire might be taking his training as hard as the last time. We all know that he was knockout by Inoue, but still though, this is another opportunity for him to remain as champion, so everything should be perfect for him come fight night. |
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Memphis Grizzlies VS Golden State Warriors
The stake odds for this game are 1.90 for the Grizzlies and 1.85 for the Warriors, Vince Williams Jr., and Steven Adams, can not play for the Grizzlies Ja Morant is still suspended, while Ty Jerome, Andre Iguodala, Andrew Wiggins, and Gary Payton II can not play for the Warriors, for this game I really don't know if the Grizzlies could step up for a win because the Warriors is having a crazy loss, but I think the Warriors will manage to win this because they got bad blood Dillon "Dynasty" Brooks because of his trash talking I think my pick is the Golden State Warriors, I think it's high time we all move past this idea of the Golden State warriors getting a win on the road, and it doesn't matter if they are playing Boston Celtics or Detroit Piston, or even as mediocre as a team from the G-League, these clowns just can't get a win on the road, I believed playing the Atlanta Hawks or a Ja Morant-less Memphis Grizzlies' would have been an easy way to dismiss that narrative, but here we are again, the fumbled it! I'm probably done with them until the post season, I mean that's even if they manage to secure their spot for it. Yeah, they have already cost us a lot of money, expecting that one day they'll be back to being the old Warriors who can dominate on the road. I don't understand the line movement in this particular game. It seemed like it was signaling that the Warriors would win, but what happened was a complete massacre for the team. Good thing I was able to bet live and took the Jazz to win with 3.40 odds. It made me profitable in the end. I skipped the Warriors game, because I want to beat on them, but there are parts of me saying that it's going to be very difficult because of their road game records. It's a different Warriors team now, although the core remain but the second unit is not that strong anymore, so to be honest, I doubt that they can defend their crown for this year, just to be realistic. They could be the crowd favorite for us, but it might cost us more money losses, just saying. |
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After winning 1 to break the 4 losing streak, Denver Nuggets are back to lose more.  I don't even understand what is happening. The stats are okay, Murray is back to his normal shooting accuracy and attacking the paint. Maybe it's the lack of defense that they are missing. They are known to score over 120+ per game and they have a record to win it whenever it goes over 120. But vice versa to their losing record when they gave scores like 110+ they will absolutely lose. They may be safe for the playoffs but giving away games will put them in number 2 as the Kings are not stopping to win each game. Yes, and again, one interesting numbers: Jokic didn't make a triple double, he is shy of 2 assists. And when we see this stats, it make us think that they could be in trouble if he can't make a triple double, also the scoring output though, he is to be expected to score at least 30 points. Very though for them, maybe they are not doubting themselves again in the playoff. Last year Jamal is out and then Porter Jr has some extended injuries. But now, this season they are healthy, on top of the standings, but seems to be having problems closing out the regular season. And we might say that they are choking right now, in my opinion. Well, they are still 4 games above the 2nd seeded Kings, so maybe these is a strategy to them. I mean kind of they will not perform 100% on their remaining games, so that they will still have the energy when playoff comes. If they know that they will retain the 1st spot with a few games remaining, for sure their key players Jokic and Murray will sit in preparation for the upcoming playoffs. Currently, they lost 5 of their last 6 games and the only win that they got in that 6 game span was against the Pistons. They only have 11 games remaining, and it's a bit tough at least because on that 11 games, 7 of them are against teams above .500 (Warriors, Suns, Sixers, Bucks, Nets, Kings). TBH, I'm a bit worried on how the Nuggets are performing on their last games, but if they will manage to win majority of the remaining 11 games then I still think that they will retain that top spot in the West. I think it's going to be close with Memphis as the Grizzlies are on a winning streak right now. So maybe the Nuggets will maintain the top spot, but it doesn't good to look at when they are not winning. And this might be a similar case with the Suns a couple of season ago when they are on the top of the West but eventually lost. So regardless, they have to win because entering the playoff they have to build the momentum. |
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We are not sure if $1 M could be within this bull run it might take a couple or two of bitcoin halving before we can even consider this price. Maybe in this bull run, 6 digit is within reach. And then we will be in the bear state after 2024/25.
Perhaps the best gauge is that when we reach a point that "almost all" bitcoin has been mined or at least 99% or it.
And then hard 1% might be the factor that it will be scarce, so very high demand with almost no supply then likely the price is going to go up, but not in the last bull run.
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I think we have heard this kind of story before, that for every success, there could be some kind of secret behind it.
But now sure how we can relate it to gambling, although in Hollywood, and if you have seen the Ocean's series, there is this part where Al Pacino character trying to double cross one of the members of Daniel Ocean's gang, Rueben to sign a document about his ownership stakes.
And who knows, this could life imitating art or the other way around.
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Injuries are really taking a toll one the NBA as we get closer to the end of the season. I should be getting excited about the Los Angeles Lakers playing the Dallas Mavericks tonight, but I’m not sure if any of the superstars are going to be on the floor. Luka maybe will put on a show but I would’ve loved to have seen Kyrie and LeBron face off again on their latest teams.
What a beauty this ending was. Our guy Maxi Kleber with 3 clutch free throws 15sec before the end to make it a 1 point game and then after a Lakers turnover Maxi's first NBA game winner buzzer 3 pointer. He is a force on the defensive end but his shooting from 3 is definitely worth mentioning as well. Thanks AD for the "great" foul on Maxi shooting a 3, amazing. GO MAVS. It was basically how the Lakers team has been for the last couple of years. They just aren't that good and I hope they don't make a full series playoff because they will get smacked around and be boring. Was funny because as I was watching that broken play and was thinking to myself the Lakers are gonna screw this up and bam. 3 at the buzzer lol. Just the breaks of the game I guess, they know that the ball will go to Kyrie and so someone left Maxi as they triple team Irving in the dying seconds, and it's good that Kyrie didn't force that shot and instead pass to to Maxi who is very wide and boom, 3 and a good win for the Dallas team who are still struggling because Luka is still out. Teams are not getting desperate, and it's good though, because we might see games that are very close and maybe another buzzer beating. Or the game will be contested and won by 3 points or less. |
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During Corona in 2020 the Federal Reserve added dollars to their economy after which we saw Bitcoin rise from less than $4000 to almost $7000. Many believe that the US will add more dollars to its economy in the coming days, which could push the price of Bitcoin to new highs.
Wrong, during corona pandemic in 2020 the FED injected more money at March 13, 2020 [1], actually when the FED announce to inject more money Bitcoin price is dump from $8K to $5K, it's not increasing. I think we can't compare though the Feds injecting more money that time as to today. People panic because of the virus, there are no clear understanding as what or who causes it and obviously not just crypto or bitcoin falls that time, every traditional market collapses, stocks, oil etc. The collapse of 2 banks and FED injected more money in this year had no relation with the sudden pump of Bitcoin price. FED prints new money will make the value of the dollars decreased, but it doesn't mean it will increase Bitcoin price.
The narrative or expectations of investors now are different though, when government injects money to save bank, so as the bank fails, investors opt to other assets to hedge their wealth and bitcoin might be the number 1 logical choice, or maybe gold or maybe stocks. Or maybe this news as well: https://decrypt.co/123295/binance-swaps-busd-stablecoin-bitcoin-ethereum-bnb“Given the changes in stablecoins and banks, Binance will convert the remaining of the 1 billion Industry Recovery Initiative funds from BUSD to native crypto, including BTC, BNB, and ETH,” Binance CEO Chanpeng Zhao wrote in a tweet early Monday. |
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This should be a really good fight, I am expecting Canelo to win this though.
Has anybody seen any early fight odds, please post any crypto bookie odds here if and when you see them.
No odds yet for this fight from our crypto bookies, so maybe the handicappers are still trying to get the odds. But I reckon and as others speculation that Canelo will be the huge favorite here. And it might be the first time after many fights though that Canelo opponents doesn't have any physical advantage against him. Ryder is not going to be taller than him and the reach are almost the fight. And we all know that Canelo are used to fighting tall boxers and then completely destroys them in about 10 rounds. So Ryder might not go to distance against him. It will be another advantage for Canelo despite his previous injury. I agree that he'll be the favorite here no wonder because he always shows aggressiveness in the ring. His fast punches are also admirable despite facing taller and bigger opponents. Strength is really more important than the physical edge when it comes to the ring. Canelo only needs to make sure that his surgery will not affect the fight. And that is the thing, we don't know if his hands are going to be fully healthy, or if he will suffer another injury as we all know that hands are very brittle and once it has history of injuries, it might come back to haunt him later in his career. Most likely this is the same reason why they take Ryder, in paper it seems to be legit, as he is has earn his place against Canelo. But we all know that Eddie Hearn has cherry pick another British fighter for Canelo to beat. |
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Bitcoin has been pumping that begun since more than 8 hours. This might be because it appears that the department of treasury of America and the Federal Reserve are going to give Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank the funding and the cashflow that they are needing to give their depositors 100% of their money.
Does it necessarily mean that at every pump that bitcoin does there is always a fundamental behind it? As bitcoin price drops can't it naturally go on without being influenced by any news such as US adoption, US inflation index and so on.? Does it mean that the index of over buy and over sell does no longer imply in itcoin price fluctuations? Well, you could be right about Op, but I have also heard news of CZ buying coins worth over a billion which could also be a factor Yes, this could be one of the reasons though, but we all know that there are a lot of banks being saved now and being bail out by government and it's a sign that they might be printing a lot of money. And if they are printing a lot of money then it's going to be devalued at some point. And where does people go then so that what they hold won't lost any value, then obviously it will be with crypto like bitcoin because that's how it was design by Satoshi. That's why someone has pointed out that history repeats itself. And that's how we should value BTC more than ever. |
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This should be a really good fight, I am expecting Canelo to win this though.
Has anybody seen any early fight odds, please post any crypto bookie odds here if and when you see them.
No odds yet for this fight from our crypto bookies, so maybe the handicappers are still trying to get the odds. But I reckon and as others speculation that Canelo will be the huge favorite here. And it might be the first time after many fights though that Canelo opponents doesn't have any physical advantage against him. Ryder is not going to be taller than him and the reach are almost the fight. And we all know that Canelo are used to fighting tall boxers and then completely destroys them in about 10 rounds. So Ryder might not go to distance against him. |
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^ With the fight hype like this, they would really want a rematch and Golden Boy wants its space for it. I think no matter who wins they will have a rematch. And If I would read between the lines here. They will deliberately set the fight just enough to make it fun and exciting yet also disappointing to consider a rematch.
Haha, you may have a point but i think deliberately making the fight enough to warrant for a rematch is a hard thing to do and we must not forget that Tank Davis' sentencing will be in May and he may be out for a year or more so the rematch would not happen very soon even if Ryan Garcia win the first. Have not read thoroughly the rehydration clause but i think Tank Davis is simulating the moves of Canelo Alvarez wherein he controlled his opponent's weight when they face in the ring, not a bad move but i think a coward act hehe. I just think that Davis doesn't want to give any advantage to Garcia simply as that, so he inserted the rehydration clause to make Garcia uncomfortable and indeed if he has problems making the 136 lbs and what more if he wants to rehydrate after the weigh in. Not sure who is Garcia's nutritionist, but she/he has a lot of things in the plate to ensure Garcia will not have an problem during the weigh in and rehydrate himself just 10 lbs before the fight. |
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Yep, just one game for the Warriors, and as we can see in their lineup, no Wiggins still, so they continue to struggle unlike during their championship run last year there are a lot of good supporting players who fulfill their role, but not this year. So Curry need to step up, scores 50 and yet it's not enough.
They are in the playoffs, just have to see where they are going to land and which opponents they are going to face.
But you can't really take them off in the equation as they are the defending champions and they have been in this situation many times.
I doubt Curry can carry the whole team with this line-up against west teams that already power up by acquiring big boys player from the East like KD on Suns and Irving on Mavs. Nuggets and Kings are the new top teams that is very hard to break even with complete line-up GSW. I really think this year is not for GSW anymore due to a lot of factor that is much harder compared to last season. Western Conference is a one hell of a ride to be on championship while Easter Conference is an easy peasy path for Boston/Bucks. Western teams keeps leveling up their roster that makes most of Eastern team weak AF. I hope that NBA will revamp the Division playoffs to make it more balance since there’s a big difference between West and East team. He can't. He needs Klay Thompson to step up his game. But about GSW "not this year" thought, I won't go that far just yet. Remember, that's the same notion about them last year that is why it's too emotional for Steph Curry when they won the Finals. Because no one expected it and they are hearing bad things from different analysts about them being a bad team. And yet, they won it. I can see Steve Kerr trying new things in their rotation. This past two games, he is inserting Moses Moody and he is having 10-15 minutes playtime. He might be on something else again. I do agree, they have the DNA mentality so it's hard to beat that. But as far as their lineup goes, it's not that solid as last year. And the another bad news is that Iggy is injured and may not play in the playoffs. And so they have Ty Jerome, Moody, JaMychal Green that might not be enough to make a push this year. Curry and Klay And Draymond will have to do a lot now since their bench is not that deep anymore. |
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