This NBA playoff bonanza really is special.

Miami stomping all the higher seed, who would have thought. Now they can take care of business at home. Boston is not dead but it surely looks bad right now.

Denver vs Boston, doesn't sound so bad. If Denver is winning it would be their first chip and 100% well deserved.

Jokic couldn't care less about the lost MVP if he manages to crown yet another awesome season with the first title for this franchise. This would make him a legend already in the city.

Rooting for these guys, they surely deserve it big time!!!

No, it won't dump as long as the hype is still there. What can happen rather is more increase is going to be recorded but each hypes has an end and it is a big question if meme coins like pepe can recover or not. If it can, then investors of it will be happy.

Maybe soon it will be on the level of dogecoin and shiba inu and it will also be accepted on most platforms. I'm not updated about the price of pepe but if there are still active fluctuations, it's a sign that the coin is still alive and kicking. We can ride it if we want to earn a profit. For those who are scared about what is left, much better if they avoid it and switch on to a new meme coin because the chance for them to pump is still high.

I was wondering how people go about getting feedback on their portfolios? Do you just have discussion with friends/ colleagues?

Yeah, I was even thinking of betting on the Lakers that time, but luckily I didn't pull the trigger. And it takes Murray in the 4th quarter to make a run against the Lakers and its enough to get them this big win and move 2-0.

So it's really hard for the Lakers to stop Jokic and  Murray, these two are doing the damage, so they will have to find a solution to either stop anyone of them in this series, otherwise it might be over in 5 games, in my opinion.

I definitely agree that Heat were the better team but did not expected it to be like this. Celtics are a great team who saw finals just recently, and to see them play like this on a very important game really disappointed me. The coach was the single most important thing, that is the key point here. I mean coach put in Tatum way too late on third quarter, for a while Miami were like lowry and butler and so forth, and Celtics still had Brogdon as their best player, and then put in Tatum but not Brown.

I am sorry but players won't get "tired" on these games, they may, but if the other ones are then let yours play too. I think it is quite important. I believe that the best thing about Heat is that they have a much better head coach without a doubt.

That is mainly because Celtics somehow managed to put their best players down for a rest on third quarter and Miami didn't. Celtics coach probably assumed that Miami would too, but they didn't and while Brown was resting, Heat took a great lead and then it wasn't that hard to finish the rest. I keep telling people that NBA head coaches are not as great as you think, sure some of them are, a few, like Pop is the best ever, but usually they are not.

Why are they there and not us? Because we didn't pick that life when we were young, look at their CV and you will realize they are there because they paid their due. But when you talk about talent, I am sure that there are a lot better armchair coaches that can do better job than what celtics coach did last night.

It's been a year and half that I talked last with a family friend who is living in North America and finally, he replied my messages after so many sms sent out to his number, he told me about how he own 60k in gambling and I somehow feel sorry for him but at the same time I doubt this, because I don't see anyone talking about gambling debts before.

To play in any casino you have to come with your money or asset, or are there any casinos that allow play and pay later? Or I am thinking if maybe he used a credit card for gambling? We all know that debt is possible on cards..

I know some people likes taking loans or borrow money, but I know him too well, he always advice us to never take any loan for anything.

I know some are wondering why I don't ask him, he is way older than me and I don't want to ask him, I only told him to take things easy with himself, I don't know if asking can make him feel bad even more.

So is gambling debt one way or other possible without the person taking loan or borrowing money?

I've been around for a while so my tactic has varied a lot. I have choosen my coins and tokens by the fact they have:

Real world use case: When i came in i was told buy coins with actual real world use case. I tried to find those but so far i haven't found any real world adoption for anything other than permissionless transfer of wealth that's been done with bitcoin from the start. Maybe some smart contracts can be useful but they have not been adopted in any significant scale. There's potential in many of them, but most of them are now going to be adopted ever. And even their devs know this, yet they can't really say it as they want to sell their snake oil. I a still looking for even one that might be adopted.

Good tokenomics: This i am still using as a reason to buy. Issuance rate needs to be sustainable, and distribution needs to be wide and fair. Marketcap needs to be low enough if we are not talking about the coins that already have the necessary net effect to attract developers and keep on growing more.

Team: I find this most important, without good team that knows their stuff you are destined to fail. In ideal case i choose professionals that are transparent and know what they are doing. They have coders in lead, their own legal team, and regular amas. Needless to say that i want everyone doxxed. So far every coin or token with anon devs that i have bought have vanished.

Right size marketcap: Most money i have made in this game is by finding suitable microcaps, like under $100k. If conditions are right, they can something like to 500k and above really fast, and i can take like 70% of my investment out potentially very fast. Rest of them stay for moonshot. But as a disclaimer i would like to say that while microcaps have have technically most room to grow, they also have highest changes of being rug pulls or slow rug pulls.

Trusting a tip from a friend: For some weird reason my newb friends have found some gems. They don't even necessary understand what marketcap means or how to do research. They might have bought because they liked the name. I see no reason buying them but they are making a killng with them. These days i throw some money on what ever they say. That might not be smart but i might as well.

Aping in to just tokens that has just been released: By doing this i don't have even the time to do decent research. I try to look everything as fast as i can and hope for the best. With this tactic i have found my best micro caps. I have also been bought into some instant rug pulls.

I see Nuggets vs Celtics final. I know that a lot of people have a lot of different opinions and Lakers played as well as they could hope for and almost got a win at Denver, that's good. But I believe that Denver had Jokic advantage that can't be unseen, that is a huge one and the fact that he plays like this at times to give them the edge is something huge, we need to consider that as the most valid opinion at this point.

I know that fans are upset about the current situation but we need to realize that Lakers just can't respond like that, not when Jokic plays like this. Even though if Jokic plays badly for a few games, I do not think that it will be 4 games, it is going to be totally different and we need to accept that.

There was a clear reason why Lakers were considered not to win this, and we have seen why that was the case. I think second game will not be that much different, most of the time road team ends up getting a win on the first game if they can, and home team wins the second game because they adjust accordingly, nothing surprising.

This time around they had a terrible shooting at the start and even with that they still managed to lead, that is important because they had offensive rebounds like crazy. I believe that AD clamping down on Jokic made Jokic not that bad, but it caused Lakers rebounding a lot worse, normally AD would have gotten those rebounds if he wasn't marking Jokic so closely, and not like that worked, Jokic still had an unbelievable game.

It's not over yet. We've seen big leads in the playoffs where the opposing team was able to come back and win the game. So, while I would like the Nuggets to win the series and every game, I cannot be too confident because the Lakers are also a strong team.

So far, we are witnessing what seems like a blowout game in favor of the Nuggets. If they manage to maintain a lead of at least 20 points, I would confidently say that game 1 belongs to the home team. Lakers fans, including my friends on social media, seem relatively silent at the moment.

Kevin really had a couple of good performances in the first round against the Bucks, but his performance in the second round against the Knicks was pretty weak. Nevertheless, I guess Kevin still has enough energy and skills to be useful on the court. I mean, he should be more active, especially in the paint.
By the way, Kevin is only 34 years old, so he's not that old.

Yes, we know that the Celtics will be the favorite in this series, not just every game. But just like in the Sixers series there could be unexpected results, like Sixers stealing game 1 for them. But they were able to get it back and win it in 7, so not every easy. And as we are now in the conference finals, it will be harder against the veteran Miami Heat. We thought that they are done, but this experience players specially Jimmy Butler still has one aces down in their sleeves and will everything they got against the Celtics. so it could really be six or seven series again.

I've been interested in adding Optimism and ImmutableX to my portfolio but their price has been inflated after big run ups.

Now they are both in freefall and I'm considering an entry point.

How do you decide where to take the plunge?  A certain %drop from the top or a %above bottom?

Or do you just look at previous levels as the traders always mention, Optimism is getting close to some previous tops at $1.3 for example?

Or do you get buy targets from another source?

Is the PEPE AI scamcoin or another memecoin ?