I still remember when Aldridge and Roy are the top players back when they are still in Portland. Its just sad that Roy retired very early that time.

Now he proving that he can still help the team as long as he will be given enough minutes. He played 21 minutes with 16 points. His perimeter shooting + his ability to handle ball are still there like he is playing on his prime. He isn't as quick as he is years ago and its understandable but his perimeter shooting is his bread and butter. I hope that he will be healthy all through out the season because he will be a big help to the Nets both offensively and defensively.

No. The Nets will not win the ECF without Kyrie.
We've already seen the effects of Kyrie not playing for them and we've also seen Harden exposed by the new rules of the game so without Kyrie, they will not be the ECF champions. It might be the Bucks again I think.

If Kyrie will not play, it will be the Bucks Vs. Warriors in the NBA Finals . I know I know it might be too early to say but this is only my prediction (and because I'm a Warrior fan as well and I would love to see them back in the playoffs after how many years).

Banks facing death if they will not adopt into what is happening right now in financial industry is kinda exaggerated at least for me.
I don't think that they will die gradually or will become bankrupt if they will not adapt but their business will be affected as crypto is getting more popular and popular.

Banks will stay because many people are using it. You are saying that crypto must be adopted by these banks or they will face death in the next years because you are involved into crypto yourself. Ask another person outside if what they will prefer to use. We can say that the people using crypto are increasing but the number of people that are using banks right now is enormous and many are comfortable with it. Some banks might adapt and some will just stay with their traditional way.

Well, not many knows Bitcoin at that time and people tend to spend more on some luxurious things rather than investing into some assets like Bitcoin.
I don't know if that is the nature of most of the people to be satisfied most of the time by buying things that makes them satisfy rather than delayed gratification.

Its a missed opportunity I must say and there is nothing we can do about it. The best thing to do is to balance out everything and prepare for the future. Maybe buy something that you want that will satisfy you and at the same time, invest into some assets. In that way it would be better for you. A win-win situation.

When a craze like this is happening, there will be con-artists out there that will create a new coin that is almost the same name as the coin that is booming and after few weeks to months they will just get the money and walk away like nothing happened.

To all, nobody is saying that you don't need to invest into these meme coins because after all its your own money. Just invest what you can afford to lose especially into these meme coins that no use case at all. If you are just investing base on emotions and hype, better not to invest at all because it is the riskiest form of investing (investing using emotions).

They still have big man in Aldridge although he isn't fast enough though compare to other bigs out there and we know what happened last year to him. It might again become a hindrance for him to be healthy all throughout the season. Overall, his height with additional perimeter shooting is just good for the team.

I just watched the highlights of the Nets and I think you're right. If they want to get the championship, they must make a way to get back Kyrie and play again. Just by seeing their roster, if either KD or Harden will get injured the team can't compete against playoff contender teams.

Its hard to know right now whether Jazz will still be at the top this season or not but for sure they will enter the playoffs again.

I didn't expect the Utah Jazz to be at the top last season and they had lots of improvements but right now, there is a team that even Stephen A. Smith said that "Only the Nets with Kyrie can stop them". With a healthy Klay and Wiseman coming back, the Warriors might be on the top again. Lots of three point shooters and you have the best shooters of the planet in Steph and Klay. Lots of snipers and at the same time, baiters because they can bait you if you are the defender. You think that they will shoot three but you left the paint for them.

TNT is just too much for MAG to handle as they win in Game 5 and getting the championship of the Philippine Cup. 4-1
I like the adjustment of the MAG at the start of the first quarter. 2 big man set-up to lessen the productivity of Mikey Williams but they didn't stopped him all throughout the game. Best player is Pogoy with 19 points and Williams still got 24 points.

At the time I'm posting this, it is already the awarding ceremonies and it seems like you can't see the happiness in the face of Coach Chot unlike the players who are shouting and you can see on their faces that they are happy with what they got. I wonder why . Kudos to the Magnolia still for getting the runner-up. No need to say what are the problems that Magnolia did since the conference is over. I'm thinking now that Magnolia must trade most of their guards and get some big players. They have too much guards in their roster. My opinion only.

The Finals MVP is Mikey Williams and its kinda expected already just by looking at his stats all throughout the Finals. Well deserved by him and the championship of TNT.
To the next conference . Anybody knows when will be the next conference starts??

DOGE will stay but SHIB will not... or maybe it will.
The DOGE community is the reason why it is still here right now even after how many years. SHIB community is just here for more than a year and we don't know if it will do the same with DOGE or not.

TBH, I don't like investing in meme coins so investing in both of these coins are no-no for me. This is a very risky investment that if you want to risk hoping that you will earn profit then just put only a small amount. SHIB is full of hype and it will be full of hype until it has a use case. With regards to both of them not existing after 10 years, SHIB might not but DOGE will.

For those that want to invest into SHIB, good luck to you and hope you will not get burned .

When a project is just posted by an influential person in his social media account, many will believe that it will be the next thing and that is what happened to SHIB.
If Elon didn't tweet anything related to it, do you think that it will reach what it had reached now?

Well, I believe that Elon helped SHIB to get a community behind it but it doesn't change the fact that the recent rise of it is sustainable. There will be a time that large holders of SHIB will sell all of their holdings, taking their profit and let those average and FOMO'ed investors to cry because of their losses. As for me, I will never touch this meme coin or DeFi token as they say. I'd rather invest into some other coins out there which has a lower risk than investing into this meme coin.

Congrats to those SHIB holders for their huge profit though . DOGE and SHIB are meme coins still .

When I'm still betting, the largest loss that I got in only a day was around 20$ and at that time I'm already disappointed on myself and felt regret in the end because of how large I lost in gambling. After that I moved away from gambling sites, spend my time in playing online games until the time came that I'm no longer into gambling and I don't want to gamble again because I don't want to get addicted.

Losing $20,000 in just 2 days is already huge if you are just an average person but if you are a rich one, this amount is just a small percentage. Either way, losing this kind of amount is kinda depressing but its good to see that you are moving on with what happened to you. At least you learned a lesson here that just focus on trading and disregard gambling.

Take it. Base on the wins of both teams, the wins of TNT are by double digits while on the 1 win on MAG it only a single digit so getting a -3.5 spread for TNT is almost a sure win if they will win today and finish the series.
Kinda risky still since many are still expecting for MAG to at least extend the series to 6 games. There are 3 things that they need to do in order for them to win.
1. Stop Mikey Williams or at least lessen his points.
2. Defend the three point area.
3. Lessen the turnovers.

As for me, I think too that TNT will finish this series today but still nothing is certain until the final buzzer sounds . Good luck for those who will bet on TNT.

YES...... and NO..

This is a very subjective topic because not all experienced the same thing . OP experienced the good side of airdrops and got profit from it. Not all airdrop hunters have the same experience as him and TBH, my estimation is that more than 90% of the airdrops turned out to be either useless, a dead coin or an abandoned project.

I still remember Uniswap, which started as an airdrop and now it is one of the top DEX'es already. Lucky for those who got UNI tokens from airdrop and held it because they got 100% profit . As for me, I didn't get the opportunity to earn thru airdrops.

There are 2 kinds of NFT that are popular right now.
One is NFT art which is the one we are seeing in Opensea more often. No need for further explanation on this .
Another one is the NFT under the blockchain game. Games like Axie Infinity, Splinterlands, Voxies etc. are the examples of games which requires you to buy the NFT under the game to play it.

I'm buying NFT under blockchain games but not NFT arts and at the same time, I'm invested into Gaming Tokens right now like ENJ which is a gaming token and AXS. Kinda thinking of investing into another NFT but can't decide which or I will just wait for more NFT games to be released .

I don't know if it is just me that I felt it but just when I click this thread, the first coin that went into my mind is SHIB and it really is.
Because of its hype that it has as of this moment, many are happy and many are hyping it again. Many are expecting for this shitcoin to go even higher.

Investor only sees the profit and not the risk. Investors only see the positive side and not the negative side. Many might get profits from SHIB short term but there will be more losers than gainers with SHIB for sure. Investing on SHIB is extremely risky right now. A memecoin, a shitcoin, a coin which has no use case, no benefits at all. If you will invest into SHIB right now, good luck and I hope that you will be ok after losing all  your money that you invested on that shitcoin.

I think you used the wrong words here .
You might mean that "when it is at its ATH" or at least the same.

In general, a false breakout really happens when a coin like Bitcoin surpassed its past ATH. Many holders tend to sell their Bitcoin at the same price or at least near that price either lower or higher but there are some too who are getting FOMO'ed for some reasons and that causes the prices to go up even more. At this time, sellers are in control since they want to get their profits causing the price to go down thus a false breakout happens.

What will happen after this? Now that Bitcoin is at $61,000 again at the time I'm posting this, there is a chance that it might try to reach the ATH again @$66,000-67,000 or might go down even further .

One of the best coaches of the PBA, the former coach of Gilas Pilipinas and former coach of TNT.

I don't see them to losing 3 in a row with this. Losing 1 might be on Game 5 but to lose this whole series and let MAG still win the series? I don't think that it will happen. I expected too that Game 4 will be a close match since MAG wants to tie up the series at 2 a piece but TNT really is just too much for them and they really are. Their starters are the best and their bench is also the best at least for me. Congratulations in advance to the TNT for getting their championship since 2015.

Looks like the new rule regarding calling fouls by the referees really hit Harden that bad. On average, Harden is taking 9 FTA per game but now he is only taking at least 3 FTA per game. A huge decrease and that is because of the new rules. The new rule hit him, Young, Doncic and those players who really like to lean on to the defenders to let them commit a foul. With the Nets currently 24th in offense and with a record of 2-3, they really need Kyrie but it seems like his ego still prevails and he still don't want to get vaccinated for his personal reasons and shit.

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Well, the Lakers team still not fail to amaze me
At one point, they lead by up to 26 at the 2nd quarter and they blew it all up at the 3rd quarter. Many here are blaming Ninja Turtle (Westbrook) but lets also blame his teammates who did awful on the second half. Scored 72 in the first half which is high already and only 43 on the second. I'm curious on what LeBron is saying to his teammates after the game .

I didn't have the opportunity to watch his fights on live but just watching his highlights on Youtube, he really is a badass when he is on the ring.

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Exhibition matches are never worth-watching at least for me. Only for those people who are bored at their home already and deserve to watch a boxing match live are the ones who are happy to watch this. Most or all of the exhibition matches are scripted and we've seen it already many times. Betting on this kind of matches is risky because you don't know who will win since it is scripted. Tyson might just let himself knocked out in round 1 and get paid or the other way around. Maybe they will just fight until the final bell rings. After all, both of them will benefit from this with the money they will get so... yeah.

If its for the money then they will do everything. Quite unfortunate that exhibition matches are becoming popular nowadays. Well, there is nothing we can do about it since there are still people who are interested to watch this kind of matches.

Bitcoin directly? None since I'm not using Bitcoin to buy something.
What I'm doing is that I'm converting it and then the money is what I'm using to buy some things that I want.

I think the best thing that I bought with Bitcoin is a phone and I think that is around 4 years ago but I'm planning to upgrade into a new phone this year hopefully with the help of Bitcoin still and a brand new computer set around 3 years ago. Aside from that, I might buy some bicycle for some exercise too. We manage to bought the things that we want because of Bitcoin so thanks to it .