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Japan is fucked. The US has left them to hang. Yen is going to depreciate like crazy. The carry trade will no longer work. Japanese citizens will not be able to afford anything outside of their country. Japan buying up the US debt was the biggest two country Ponzi. Seppuku!

Stock has now more than doubled and it is a ripe play to be bought out in my mind. I give it 12-18 months that some tier 1 US bank acquires them as their crypto arm. The race is on to scale adoption and GLXY gives you a business with expertise on how to scale instantly. Mike N going to get paid!

Kawhi had a decent supporting cast. But this cast was definitely not better than all the rosters Kobe had during his chip seasons. MJ’s first three peat definitely was a worst supporting cast. Kawhi the year the Raps won was one of the most dominant performances in history. Kobe was great, but people got to stop making him sound like he did it by himself. During his 3 peat with Shaq. Shaq averaged 35-16. Pretty hard when you have arguably the most dominant center in history in his prime playing with you.

I will always appreciate Kawhi, but let’s once and for all stop the narrative that he dragged a group of scrubs to a title. This supporting cast was 🔥 Kyle Lowry Danny Green Pascal Siakam Marc Gasol Fred Van Vleet Normal Powell OG Anunoby Serge Ibaka

@JWepp Buddy Jordan was attacking the basket with Robinson, Ewing, Mourning, Hakeem, Shaq! Derozan attacking like string beans in this era. No disrespect to Demar but this era are softies!

Michael Jordan would literally be demar derozan in this era

@JWepp Great post to get hate click bait!

@MarcJSpears There have been more athletic participants but a dunk contest is like a meal. You need the appetizer, main and dessert to all be 50s. This is where Vince will never be matched in 100 years! @mrvincecarter15

Vince 2000 vs McClung 2025? Who was better?

@LegionHoops Lakers got bailed out huge not taken Poor Man Oden 2.0. They should have been held to the contract. Cause they know what they were getting into.

Just like that, the Lakers have no center… and the trade deadline has passed. Unbelievable.

@ShamsCharania Oh boy!

Dallas Mavericks star Anthony Davis is expected to miss multiple weeks with a left adductor strain, sources tell ESPN. His absence could stretch to a month.

@KnicksMemes Similar type of call in the Raps OKC game. Boucher called for a technical intention to injure SGA while trying to block a 3. They said he jumped from five feet out so there and had no intention to block the shot so it was intent to injure. Silver killing the NBA

BREAKING: Knicks guard Deuce McBride has been EJECTED and SUSPENDED FOR THE SEASON after this Foul and HIDEOUS ACT OF VIOLENCE against Derrick White

@Jacobtheclipper Steph killed the NBA. It has breed a new generation of softies. Where are the Oakley’s, Shawn Kemps? Also, NBA calling technicals left, right and center. Bring back the finger wags, stare downs and even the shoves after a big play! That’s heart not insult!

Why are NBA ratings down? Because the NBA used to all have different individual/team styles of play. Now everyone plays the same like robots..

People underestimating Masai's vision. The issue with the Raps has been about finding balance. Post Kawhi era we got overweighted on SF/PF tweeners and lacked a C. After Fred left we lost our 3PT shooting and PG depth. An iso go to perimeter scoring threat pretty much didn't exist since Kawhi. Then we lost bench depth. The retooling the past 3 seasons have been about addressing all these items to build around Scottie: 1. PG depth - check - IQ and Shead 2. 3PT shooting - check - BI, Dick, Walter, Battle 3. Perimeter go to scorer - check - BI and IQ 4. Starting C - check - Jakob 5. Bench depth - check - New bench mob - Shead, Mogbo, Battle etc... 6. Salary flex - check - We stayed under lux tax, have all our firsts and our bench is comprised of rookie contracts where we have RFA control a few years from now. 7. Timing to add a superstar - Next trade deadline - There are too many fake contenders on the downhill. Next season we will see the largest list of elder superstars be available in the market: Bucks, Philly, Clippers, Suns, Warriors all going to be sellers!

The Raptors were in limbo. Then, they were rebuilding. And now? Who knows. With the trade for Brandon Ingram, the plan has changed again. The price was right, but the fit and timing? That’s where there are questions: tsn.ca/josh-lewenberg…

The tank is safe. BI still injured. Raps have a brutal schedule in Feb that they most likely lose 80% of the games. March was expected to be a easy month, but some thought to be tank commanders like Portland, Spurs and Pistons are gunning for the playoffs. We also have a healthy gap in the standings from the Bulls. Losing a spot to Brooklyn is really what's most at risk. Doubt we can out tank Hornets, Wizards, Pels and Jazz. We probably end up 5 or 6 at the moment.

If Masai pulls off the trade, we will have acquired Brandon Ingram Immanuel Quickley RJ Barrett Ochai Agbaji Ja'Kobe Walter Davion Mitchell Jamal Shead Jonathan Mogbo For just OG and Siakam.

I won’t even look it up, but off the top of my head VC played with Mourning, Kidd, Hakeem, Bosh, Dirk, Marion, McGrady, Marc Gasol, Trae Young, Brand, Fox, Nash, Odom the list goes on. Point being when you play for as long as Bron has you will have played with a lot of other stars along the way.

@TodayInSportsCo @KingJames Well the man is 40. So he has bound to have played with a lot of all stars. These narratives are just trying to slander the man. Pull up Vince Carter who played till 43 I bet his list of all stars is even bigger.

A starting five of Fisher, Kobe, Odom, Gasol and Bynum is not scrub. You have two arguably the most versatile SF in Odom and an all-star in Gasol. Bynum was an up and coming Center that was a giant. Add in a defensive beast in Ariza. It was probably the strongest front court in the entire NBA that year. Between Bynum, Gasol and Odom those three guys can all get you ten boards each any given night and two of the three were really good passers as well.

No disrespect to Kobe, but people got to stop making it sound Kobe did it all by himself. Kobe didn’t have CP3…but he had Shaq man! He had one of the best coaches of all-time. Shaq averaged like 35-15 in all of the championship finals they won. This is not even about LeBron, but let’s not make it sound like Kobe won with Vincenzo Esposito being his backcourt mate. Kobe played and won with some of the best rosters in his era.

THE NBA HATED KOBE & COULDN'T AFFORD FOR HIM TO GET RING 6 OR 7 WHEN THEIR PRECIOUS KING HAD 0. They were trying to take the NBA from Kobe & make LeBron the face, but Kobe had 5 to LeBron 0. So they allowed LeBron to Miami but told Kobe he can't have CP3. The league baby's Bron.

@Jacobtheclipper Steph killed basketball. Can’t watch these weak sauces three point checkers. Also bring back really centers

PEAK HOOPS Back when the GREATEST athletes in the world actually SHOWCASED their athleticism! They didn’t just chuck 3s and make podcasts all day 🤷🏻‍♂️

@CoachKarl22 @Iconic_sonics Amare at Prime was pretty nasty as well

Shawn Kemp is the best athlete I ever coached. He may also be the most athletic big in the game’s history. And maybe the most athletic player at any position! Prove me wrong!!

As much as some people want to just FUD anything from China. Seems like some pretty prominent American VCs have come out to vouch for deepseek. I think times have changed and Chinese technology needs to be respected. If the initial reaction is to dismiss this is how you get displaced.

My honest opinion on Deepseek. That a Chinese Quant firm managed to train an o1 level model with 3% of compute as a side project is quite obviously a psyop to have US waste resources verifying it's a psyop or to crash NVIDIA. If it's actually true then it's astounding but I firmly believe CCP is probably involved and has many H100s none disclosed.

@TheHoopCentral True. If you watch Norm this year his approach and aura totally different. He is attacking with confidence as if he has been a ten time allstar.

True or False: Norman Powell should be an NBA All-Star this season.

Cohen, is not a guy to be pushed around. Back at SAC he would turn the air-con on the trading floor so his traders were cold and awake. This man is not one to let some agent or player dictate the rules. He does things on his terms. I think Alonso just better to move on as he has been written off now.

Wow. You almost never hear this kind of assessment.