Harris got injured, Lee is injured. No one can step up and carry the team thus they lost. Prayers for Mike Harris though and I hope he will recover.

For sure this will be a physical one (as it is always ) or I mean more physical than the normal one. We have Hodge that is a very good defender and just willing to sacrifice his body just to have extra possessions. I wonder who will he be defending. It might be Brownlee maybe. Ginebra in 6 for me or maybe 5 but not 4 even though Pringle and Japeth but there is a high chance it will be 6. More games = more revenue and more entertainment .

I also felt the same when SMB was down 20 against Meralco in the first round. I thought that they can come back in the 4th quarter but when I see that there is a few time remaining and the lead is still in double digits, I shut down my TV and did something already because I also lose my interest. Its understandable and maybe its not their time. Lets just support which team we want to support and not be bandwagons .

4 of their starters didn't play and yet they won against the top team in the league right now.
This Memphis Grizzlies team is really a team to watch out. They are a young team and most of them doesn't have any experience in the playoffs but lets see how they will perform when playoff comes.

Their roster is very deep that you can make a good 5 man out of their second unit as well. They have many scorers and they have someone that can step up every night. If they will face TWolves in the playoffs though, they might be having a hard time since their record is 2-2. We don't know but this team is a playoff team for the next 3-5 years or even longer as long as their core players will be not be traded which I think they will not.

People are becoming more intelligent already that is why scam cases are reducing every year.
Still I don't know how but I believe that investors are becoming more intelligent than they are a few years ago where scams are everywhere from ICO to DeFi to IEO's etc.

Investors know already which are scam and which are not though there are still some who are still falling into some common ways to scam them, they are learning from it thus we see scamming cases going down every year which is a good thing . Still we need to inform those newbie investors and let them know which projects are scams and which are not.

Why start with stable coins? What is the primary purpose why you are investing into crypto? Isn't it to gain profits?
Why start with stable coins when you can't gain profit from it technically unless you know how to trade it. You will only gain when the market is going up and vice versa. Safer? You will not gain profits if you will always be on the safe side. At least take some risk and invest into some volatile coins like Bitcoin or any other top coins.

I'm not holding any stable coins for now but it seems like I will go with the stable coins where you can earn just by holding it and putting it into an exchange like Gemini or Crypto.com. I don't know the actual amount of interest they are giving annually but I think its more than 5%. Yes there are risks into it but you will not gain if you will always be playing safe.

Clicked the link and it seems that we still don't know who Satoshi Nakamoto is which kinda frustrating if you will ask me .
Anyway, it is what it is. Satoshi doesn't wanna reveal himself/herself/themselves so... lets just accept it.
First glance at the title and the first thing that came to my mind is the Eminem song "Real Slim Shady" because the lyrics is the same .

I thought that the game will be tomorrow but its today and I just visited their website and its only 34 seconds left with Meralco up by 13.
It seems that we will see Meralco and Magnolia again in the PBA Finals.

TBH, that would be better instead of seeing Magnolia and Ginebra in the PBA Finals. Both of the imports are having a bad night. Bishop with only 8 points while Harris having 5 points only so the Locals stepped up but it seems that Meralco's local players had the last laugh. Now with the best Import of the conference, I think many here will go for Brownlee and I'm one of it.

P.S. As I'm writing this post, the game is over already 94-81 in favor of Meralco Bolts and they are the ones that will go against Ginebra in Manila Classico PBA Finals.

I think it isn't necessary to foul Brown on that play since he already is clear for take-off. I just don't know why Middleton tried to swipe the ball even though he is already at the back and Brown is about to dunk it or shoot.

Either way, the Bucks-Nets match-up was almost the same as they played each other in the 7 game series last season. We might see both of them going with each other when playoffs come but who knows.

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First the Celtics and then the Sixers. The Detroit gave an upset to these 2 teams this season especially the Sixers where they scored only 15 points in the 4th quarter. Harden didn't play well but good thing is Embiid is there still with 37 points. A complete upset :X.

Did a quick search on who have the highest IQ in the world and it seems that the highest is 263 base on Reader's Digest.

I will try to beat that IQ at least in this forum so I can say to myself that I'm the most intelligent person on Earth .

If I will pick between Davis and Westbrook into which one will be traded with them, I think I will go with Davis as well.
Being an all-star caliber is pretty much useless if you are injury-prone. We've seen many players who are all-star players but their career just got wrecked because of injuries. In Davis' situation, he is very injury-prone that I see him as a liability to the Lakers this season.

Changing the coaching staff will also help since the current roster and the coaching style of Vogel isn't match. Vogel is known for his defensive strategies and most of the players right now in the roster are more on the offensive one. The question though is if they will change him, who will be the new head coach and right after this season I'm pretty sure many will wait into what will happen to the Lakers in the off-season. Who will be traded and will Lebron leave the Lakers? .

That is why it seems like the Ukraine-Russia War that is happening right now is kinda like a "blessing in disguise" towards Bitcoin since many people are using it to help both countries in their own ways.

This is the power of decentralization where nobody can stop anything. Bitcoin is for all. You can also see Russia trying to use cryptocurrencies just to evade those sanctions that has been put to them. Its hard I think but at least they are making ways to at least stimulate the economy though I believe that their economy will be affected greatly with what is happening.

Teaching Bitcoin and its basics or giving them knowledge isn't enough for me.

I'd rather teach my kid financial management and the importance of holding your own money than putting your money into a third party like banks. I think teaching Bitcoin alone isn't enough because sure you can teach them Bitcoin but lacking those traits and skills that is related to finance and it will kinda be useless. You can teach Bitcoin to them but it will be useless if our kid doesn't know how to save or at least hold it or doesn't know how to invest in general.

I will teach my kid in the future Bitcoin or crypto in general as well as financial management and I will do it at a young age.

Part of the strategy? So you are saying that they are that willing to risk everything just to play at lower bracket to go to the Finals?
I mean I'm not against what you said but I don't see any sense with it. Why go to a lower seed just to enter the Finals when they can just go to the top and reach the Finals.

I think it isn't part of the strategy but they are short-handed all throughout the season that led them to just be in the lower seed. Maybe I will agree if you will say that Brownlee didn't play his full potential in the elimination. Either way, its good to see Ginebra playing in the Finals again because the management will have more revenue again especially when the Finals will go in 7 games .

Ohhh thanks for correcting me on that part . My bad.
Or I should say that I can predict what can happen in the future . Kidding aside I'm already betting Ginebra as the champions this season.

I just made a quick google search into what is the record of LA Lakers when they are playing on the road and its quite disappointing to see.
Out of the 37 road games so far, they only won 11 of it and lost 26 with a total win percentage of 29.7%. You can see it here.

What's even worse is that the 5 of the 7 games that they are playing is the top teams and with that 5 games, 4 of them will be played in their own home court that means Lakers will play on the road against the top teams in their remaining schedule. Just by seeing at their win-loss record, I don't want to expect too much with this Lakers team anymore. They are done this season. The next 2 games of Spurs are against the Blazers which is struggling right now though the remaining 4 are against the top teams as well.

What worse with them is that, their 7 games will be one of the hardest and the deciding factor as well whether they will enter the play-in tournament or not. Just see their remaining games and 5 of them are from the top teams right now.

With regards to them being a failure, its pretty obvious that they are. Many are expecting that they will at least win the championship but now look what is happening with them. There is also a chance that they can't even enter the play-in since they are 11th if they will continue to play like this. I think I will agree with what others is saying here that they will not enter the play-in because of their schedule and the absence of their players when they need them the most. Lets move on with them I think and talk with other teams as well. Many are talking about the Lakers too much that we forgot other teams already.

Harris was also efficient on that game shooting 72% and take not he took 22 shots on that.

Both Magnolia and Meralco are equally match and you see that there's a lot of physicality on this match-up. I mean I know that PBA players is very physical but this series is far more than what is normal. You will see Abueva and Hodge bumping with each other then another player will do the same but its normal.

Still, I don't want to see a SMC vs. SMC in the Finals that is why I will bet on Meralco in Game 5. At least if I want to watch the Finals, those two teams are from different companies. Its more fun to watch right? .

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Congratulations to Ginebra for going to the NBA Finals.
Brownlee doing Brownlee things. 47 points and almost a triple double. I think with how he is playing this playoffs, I'm betting him to be the best import this conference.

The problem with these crypto traders and some analysts as well is that, whenever they see Bitcoin goes up significantly after it went down a few months after they will predict a very high price like the recent bullish move will continue and it will not go down again like in this case. Bitcoin just went up to $45,000 a few days ago and he already said that Bitcoin will reach $80,000.

I mean there is nothing wrong with this predictions but some investors are taking this as like it is an opportunity for them to buy Bitcoin since somebody already said that it will reach X price. Also another problem is that predictions are mostly done when Bitcoin is going up but when it is going down, no one or a few only are saying where it will stop. Overall, I will not follow this prediction of him and with regards to a good time to invest into Bitcoin, anytime at least as of this moment is still a good time to buy but maybe wait for a bit of a correction to happen.

Decentralization.

That alone is enough to say why no altcoins can replace Bitcoin. If they want to change something whether its the code or the rules etc., many people must agree to that change that makes it decentralized unlike altcoins where it is being created by a centralized company or a group of people. Most or all of the altcoins are centralized that they can change anything within their project at anytime if they want to.

Between the two, I would prefer Pancakeswap not only because I tried already using Pancakeswap and not on Sushiswap but I like the Auto-cake feature of it.

I don't know if only Pancakeswap has that feature of all the DEX'es around but the Auto-cake is like a passive income and its compounding automatically which is a good thing. Just buy some CAKE, put it on auto-cake and just let it stay there. I bought CAKE and used it but unfortunately I'm at a loss even though the total of CAKE I got is way more than what I bought.

They lost to the Mavericks 128-110.
And with that loss, they dropped to the 11th spot but tied with the Spurs with the 10th spot. I saw again a post in Facebook telling that James will comeback after 2 games and Davis will also come back 2 games after. I don't know if its true but if it is then at least they see some daylight to at least enter the play-in tournament as their supposed Big 3 will play.

Also seeing the remaining schedule of the Lakers, they have one of the hardest right now as 5 of their 7 games are from the top teams. Lets hope for the best for them maybe but I will not be surprised if they will not enter the playoffs .

Hmmm what can I say to them? Maybe a Good Luck is enough.
I don't think that they will be successful to change the code of Bitcoin from POW to POS. They can create a fork (like most are doing) but still Bitcoin will be on the top. Whatever FUD's they might create, I still believe that investors are more intelligent now. Still Good Luck with their agenda but it will be unsuccessful.