Longtime Spurs usher Alan King has a special tradition at every home game - he gifts young fans with basketball cards of their favorite players from his own collection 👏
With the help of @ArenaClub, we returned the favor for Alan and have teamed up to surprise more fans at our remaining home games 🤝 #sponsored
@salazimo Interesting that they were both available in the same draft. I was one of few who argued for YY at #1 FYPD that year so I think it was a good pick.
It's early obviously, but let's take a quick peek at the top 2 picks in last year's draft:
Jackson Holliday: .348/.483/.609, 6BB, 3K 👀
Druw Jones: .053/.182/.053, 3BB, 10K 😬
I'm confident Jones's talent will catch up, but Holliday looks like a #1 overall prospect to me!!
@OffDaHook35@OhhMar24 Ljax is better in all stats, lamar was/shoulda been the mvp. Again. Unless some think the 1 more win outweighs 10 other stat areas....
MiLB pitchers aged 23 or under with a WHIP below 1.05, a BAA of .215 or lower and a BB% below 10%:
- Matt Wilkinson (CLE)
- Sean Sullivan (COL)
- Jake Brooks (MIA)
- Caden Dana (LAA)
- Quinn Matthews (STL)
- Bubba Chandler (PIT)
- Chen-Wei Lin (STL)
- Félix Arronde (KCR)
A multi-millionaire dentist in France has been jailed for pulling patients' teeth out without reason and performing thousands of unnecessary procedures.
More speculation, this time from @BleacherReport’s Zach Buckley:
“The trade: De'Aaron Fox to the San Antonio Spurs for Keldon Johnson, Jeremy Sochan, Tre Jones, a 2025 first-round pick (via CHI, top-10 protected), a 2027 first-round pick, a 2026 first-round pick swap (via ATL) and two 2026 second-round picks (via UTA and NOP or POR)”
bleacherreport.com/articles/10149…
BREAKING: Banksy-inspired statue dropping on VeVe 💐
➡️ NOT available for purchase to US residents
➡️ Crafting event open to everyone
➡️ 1.25 MILLION MCP points needed to craft
➡️ Years-worth of points for most users.
➡️ Full breakdown and my take on this below
In a rather perplexing move, VeVe just released somewhat sobering details for their upcoming Banksy-inspired “Flower Bomb” collectible.
But let’s first start with the good news—wait, is there really good news? I’ll try my best
Designwise, they nailed the look and feel of the figure, which first made its global debut as the “Flower Thrower” in a 2003 mural painting by Banksy—notice the version on VeVe replaced the word thrower with bomber.
And although the mural painting is what propelled the art to worldwide stardom, it was actually first drawn in 1999 and exhibited in 2000 at a Banksy art exhibition.
There will be 4 variants of the statues. Two of the variants will be available for purchase via blind box format:
$60 | BLIND BOX
1️⃣ Flower Bomber (Concrete variant) | 1,133 editions
2️⃣ Flower Bomber (Original Color variant) | 222 editions
⚠️ There’s a catch: if you live in the United States, you WILL NOT be able to purchase either these in the retail store. HOWEVER, VeVe will allow users from the United States to purchase these in the secondary market. So at least there’s that.
This is disappointing to say the least, considering that most of VeVe’s users are located in the US. It will be interesting to see how this drop performs without its largest user base being able to participate.
OK, now let’s take a look at the crafting component of this drop.
$0 | MCP CRAFTING
3️⃣ 250,000 MCP points needed: Flower Bomber (Street Cleaner variant) | 333 editions
4️⃣ 1 MILLION MCP points needed: Flower Bomber (Patina Bronze variant) | 88 editions
Yes, you read that right. Veve is asking users to spend 1 million of their hard-earned MCP points to be able to claim the secret rare patina bronze variant.
Last time I checked, it takes around 2,300 MCP points being earned daily to become a Master Collector on the app. Which means it would take 434 days for a Master Collector to accumulate 1 million points.
Think about it this way, if you’re a master collector, the way you are being “rewarded” for this drop by VeVe is by spending over one year’s worth of your MCP points.
And for the ultra rare crafting variant, you will need 250,000 MCP points. That’s 108 days’ worth of MCP points for a Master Collector.
So cumulative, you will need 542 days worth of MCP points. And that’s for most Master Collectors. I can’t even imagine how many years worth of points that equals two for those that aren’t Master Collectors. Actually, I can imagine. So let’s dig into that.
Now let’s say you are a fairly active collector on the platform that earns 500 MCP points daily. Are you ready to hear how long it will take to accumulate enough points to craft both of these statues? Grab a chair or sit on the floor, because you might fall after hearing this: 2,500 days! Or nearly 7 years 😳
And if you earn 1000 MCP points daily, it’ll take you 1,250 days to craft these two statues, or 3.42 years.
So Master Collectors from the United States are stuck with being forced to drain nearly 2 years worth of MCP points to craft the two variants. But for most users, it would literally take years-worth of MCP points to craft these two.
A more reasonable 100,000 MCP points for the ultra rare, and 250,00 for the secret rare would’ve been better received. Heck, considering how few Master Collector ranks there are on the platform, an exclusive crafting event just for them would’ve made more sense.
Perhaps the spirit of this decision was in the right place. But the execution fell far short of rewarding loyal collectors on the platform. It feels more like being taken advantage of. But maybe that’s just me feeling this way. How do YOU feel about this? Is this crafting event fair?
Drops: 6 July 2024 8 AM BST
@miggiesmalls aint happening. research/educate y wont get anyone relevant 2 coach. has 2 do with salary n how much they can pay (equal rights thing) can only pay a % higher than the uswnt coach. so all these big names aint coming unless they're coming for 1.5x much as uswnt coach paid #facts