Yes, Dan Rafael should be reliable enough. There must be truth behind Dan Rafael's tweet. So it is not Mayweather Jr. that will announce it first though? So it is November 12 or 19 in Las Vegas then. At least the venue is not in Spence's state of Texas and although this made Crawford inactive for a year, I hope he is pumped and ready to start his training camp.

And it also mentioned WBA regular champ Eimantas Stanionis in the undercard. Guys like Stanionis, Ortiz, Ennis, and Butaev will get their mandatory shots sooner than later. And IMO, these young guns are too risky for both Crawford and Spence. Unless Spence is happy and contented staying at welterweight forever.

Wow! Unbelievable! That was a very great performance by Team Spirit over the always odds favorite PSG LGD. Team Spirit is a whole new different level just in time when TI is only a few months away. And who saw that TORONTOTOKYO's all caps "HATERS WHERE ARE YOU NOW?" just before they entered LGD's gates to deliver its final blow? That was funny.

And just as EG and Outsiders barely made it into the top 12 for an automatic TI invite. I have here the most painful award, and it goes to Fnatic. Peace Fnatic fans, I can feel the pain with that 0.05 DPC points differential.
 

I think this trio combo will end in a failure. But who knows? It's time for Kyrie Irving to be serious with the game, play harder and stop his unnecessary antics if he wants a good contract after this upcoming season. The same with Ben Simmons, this might be his last chance to prove that he is still a relevant talent in the league.

I am very curious about how the Atlanta Hawks perform. My bets on the eastern conference are Philadelphia and Boston next season.

So Merge will most likely going to happen. Not 100% but considering the success of the recent tests says it all. I used to reserve some ETHs for this POS thing. It took a lot of time though which is finally going to happen next month. And I made a very bad decision selling most of my ETHs a few years ago before the whole crypto market started to bounce back. There is still time to accumulate but it is not that cheap like before but still worth it IMO.

I'd been contemplating lately about starting to mine and ETH seems to be the fastest ROI in my country with expensive electricity. But it seems that this is goodbye mining for ETH.

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There are still a few months to go and we might see more exciting and surprising trades before the start of the next season. So far the teams that upgraded their roster to a whole new level are;

1. Minnesota Timberwolves- Acquiring defensive superstar Rudy Gobert will right away put this team in the mix of strong contenders next season. This is bigger than Minnesota acquired Latrell Sprewell many years ago. But we will see if this current roster is comparable to the hype of that Sprewell trade many years ago. AFAIK the Minnesota Timberwolves became the favorite to win Garnett, Sprewell, and Cassell. I hope Minnesota's plan of trading Russell materializes because I want to see them improve and vie for the top.

2. Atlanta Hawks- People are really curious if a duo core of Trae Young and Dejounte Murray works well. I hope it works well as I want to see more teams becoming competitive and become serious championship contenders. It makes the league more exciting.

3. Boston Celtics- Still hanging in the air for a possible KD acquisition but they also took Malcolm Brogdon. Their current roster is already very strong and they might become the betting odds favorite.

4. Philadelphia 76ers- I knew some people aren't convinced with P.J. Tucker but I am. Looking forward to a better Harden next season.

This is interesting. I would love to see people investing these tokens giving updates here. I am also looking into BGF and Moonbet for a while now but am still hesitant due to the current market condition. Moonbet seemed to fail or maybe they can recover but Betfury casino is doing good.

The growth of these tokens is kind of limited though. Exchanges are starting to follow strict regulations in many countries. And correct me if I am wrong, but casino tokens cannot be easily accepted since they are kind of stocks. Will governments ask them to apply the tokens to their stock exchange?

Teo got a point though. Especially Ryan Garcia and Tank Davis are just cherry-picking their opponents exploiting their popularity. I don't even think Oscar is seriously matching his baby Ryan Garcia against Teo. Unless Teo will look weak in his upcoming fight. And then Teo will not accept the offer if they aren't impressive against Campa. This is all about exploitation but nobody gives up because they both think they are the A-side.

Poor Haney. The most accomplished of the quartet but probably the least popular. It looks like Haney without a belt is useless in the eyes of Teo, Tank, and KingRy. But I have to admit though that Haney is boring to watch.

I am hoping Teo will lose this fight. But any champions would love to fight either Teo or Garcia because of money. But for the meantime there is only 1 champion in the division, the former undisputed Josh Taylor is giving up his belts in favor of moving up to welterweight.

I learned a lot during 2018 and 2019 when bitcoin dropped prices heavily. I gave up and sold most of my bitcoins even if my bitcoin old-timer friends kept telling me to HODL. I think some of them owned bitcoins as early as 2011 and they already experienced huge swings throughout the years and always told me and my friends that they'd seen worse. I think it was the year 2017 the same year when I started purchasing some bitcoin portions, one of our mentors an ex-NEM foundation officer mentioned that if someone cannot hold bitcoin at its worse price it does not deserve to enjoy bitcoin's highest prices. I ignored all of them and sold most of my holding although I did retain a little.

So now I realized that experience is really the best way to learn. It's very different when you are in the situation. I learned the hard way. Now I will never sell my bitcoins unless it is super necessay.

1. What if a group of dumb leaders will decide to buy all the bitcoins to kill it?
2. What if this group of dumb leaders will sacrifice their countries' funds and economies in order to gather $500 billion for the huge buyout?
3. What if this group of dumb leaders realized that their heavy bitcoin buyouts are pumping its price and $500 billion is not enough?
4. What if this group of dumb leaders sees that there are no 21 million bitcoin in circulation?

Are we just going to create a thread or posts without knowing even a little? I am not techy but pretty sure coingecko or coinmarketcap or whatever similar sites are basic when someone starts getting interested in bitcoin.

So Bob Arum is being futuristic for Devin Haney and is expecting another easy win by the undisputed champion. Bob said that Haney will get a Lomachenko fight although the Ukrainian needs a tune-up fight first. Devin Haney will have a lot of options if he beats Kambosos again. Inside Top Rank, there's Vassily Lomachenko, Shakur Stevenson, Teofimo Lopez, maybe Josh Taylor too if he will stay at 140, and Jose Ramirez. Outside of Top Rank, there's Tank Davis and Ryan Garcia.

And as for Kambosos? He will have the same options too but he needs to win over Haney. Otherwise, I am not sure what his future will be. It's like his win over Teofimo was a fluke and he only became champion on Teofimo's worst night.

It seems that we are heading into another Team Spirit vs PSG LGD match which is pretty exciting. And yes, I think Team Spirit is starting to become stronger once again which is perfect because TI is getting nearer. I will be rooting for Team Spirit t win but my bet will be over 2.5 total maps.  

OG and Outsiders are still alive though and I see these teams are also a threat on the upper bracket losing team.

And now Oscar De La Hoya of Golden Boy Promotions is hyping his fighter Ryan Garcia who is also moving up in weight the same as Lopez. De La Hoya mentioned that Tank Davis and his team aren't serious about fighting KingRy since they get no replies. So now De La Hoya shifted on Teofimo and said that he will be watching Teofimo's upcoming fight.

There is so much publicity and hype on the big quartet Haney, Teofimo, Tank, and KingRy. Are they bigger than championship belts? Although Haney and Teofimo are well accomplished already. Tank became a legit champion but only at super-featherweight yet he is probably the biggest name of the 4. KingRy is the least when it comes to accomplishments but he is the 2nd most popular or who knows maybe he is even more popular and marketable than Tank.

I am not a fan of Bulba and I really hope he will be replaced and maybe even Fly too. As an EG fan, I still want them to play in TI. And maybe Fnatic wins over beastcoast and then drops Outsiders then it'll be a free ticket for EG in the TI.

As for Boom. I believe they are very good players. The decisions and maybe their confidence level too is what cost them some games. I'm still hoping for Boom to win against Entity but no more bets since they might become content with a TI ticket.   

Congratulations to the winners and big thanks to Roobet and Hhampuz for this kind of event. This is the first time I joined a contest ever and I felt it is still an accomplishment even if I didn't win. Looking at the previous contest threads it looks like the forum got a lot of very very talented artists and probably some of them are professionals. Hats off to all the participants and the audience in this event.

I think the maximum contract in the NBA is only 6 years. I don't know if Green is just wanting attention or trolling or bluffing or just high or drunk. It is even unlikely that GSW will give him a max contract. And his performance is not the same already as before so he will not be worth $32 million per year something.

I believe that GSW management, the splash brothers, Kerr, and the rest of the gang will persuade Draymond to remain with them. And I don't think any team in the NBA will want Draymond at $32 million per year.

Spence will fight Jermell if the money is right. I even doubt Spence fights his close friend unless there's a fallout. While both Spence and Jermell are promoted by PBC, it is Crawford that has an easier route to fight Jermell as a WBO welterweight champ privilege unless the undisputed champ vacates his WBO belt which is very possible too.

As for Spence's legacy. He only got 3 belts in a single division. He is not even the lineal and Ring champ. That resume is not enough to enter the Hall of Fame. Crawford's resume is the one that has HoF credentials being a 3 division champion, 2 division lineal and Ring champion, and former undisputed champion.

Will Spence got the balls to fight Crawford for a chance to become an undisputed champ? Or will Spence continue to block Crawford's chance to become the first ever 2 division undisputed champion in this 4-belt era? And there's Spence's friend the undisputed champion Jermell Charlo already saying in public that he will not give Crawford a shot at his undisputed belts. It should not be that hard to see who's the guy clearly chasing a legendary status in boxing.

All my bets were ML. I lost that EG bet and I think Bulba should be fired next season. But this team might still get a TI ticket if Fnatic will win against Beastcoast (very winnable) and the hard-as-nails Outsiders.

I believe Boom is really the better team compared to Liquid but their discipline and decisions are sometimes flawed. In the first game, they were leading but it shifted to Liquid's favor before finally retaking the game. And in the second game, people were expecting for a more disciplined Boom yet they were badly beaten in less than 30 minutes. It was in game 3 that Boom finally were playing too safe although I think it was too much, they could've finished the game earlier.

I think it was early this year when the WBC approved Canelo to jump in the cruiserweight and fights WBC champ Ilunga Makabu. It didn't materialized though, maybe there is no money in a Makabu fight or the Canelo team thought it was too big for them.

Yes Canelo is not tall and he also does not have a huge frame but he is damn heavy and solid. 5-6 months should be enough for Canelo to acclimatize in cruiserweight although he cannot stay there for long. Maybe a mission to win a title and when done, he needs to move down once again. Canelo's speed might be enough to outpoint the champions there but the problem is he's got enough power to earn their respect. Otherwise, those cruiser champs will become aggressive and can seriously hurt Canelo, especially WBC champ Makabu.