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Ranked top 40 players from 1990-1999 NBA drafts (to avoid mixing eras). Calculated these rankings based on peak stats, career stats (longevity), and overall accomplishments. No bias - just data. I include all the stats in the thread. Tons of takeaways in thread below:

Tried to share this with my IRL friends and they just have nothing but bad things to say about NFTs haha. Nobody outside of this small group of people gets it

I just bought this and it is SICK. Only 5 of these exist. Maybe the coolest looking moment i own. @NBATopShot

Beautiful

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild. A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute. Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home. So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room. The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely. The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running. Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

@jjlsmith2 @LiveTokenBot I got the galactic. So sick

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JJLSmith just pulled the jersey serial of Nickeil Alexander-Walker. 3 Pointer · 12/29/2025 · Ascension · 25-26 · #7 / 44 LE FMV: $162 nbatopshot.com/moment/12d71a7…

@berkokid @NBATopShot Love the Omega parallels

I didn't have awesome luck with this most recent @NBATopShot drop. That's life, it's all good! But - this was the cake topper. nbatopshot.com/moment/f692f0e… #nbatopshot

@schuckster Haha awesome

One dude is putting his entire life savings into Keyonte George and has single handedly held the floor at $4 by putting out $3 offers that will last the rest of his/her life. He's over paying for each of them and forcing everyone else to overpay too LOL

@NFTsEveryday @NBATopShot @roham @dapperlabs @DrewAustin I snagged this beauty after the drop

Gotta give credit, where the credit is due... @NBATopShot drops continue to absolutely crush it. One hour post drop and secondary keeps going up, the demand for digital collectibles is certainly there! Case: +$710 📈 Box: +$115 📈 Pack: +$11 📈 Well done @roham @dapperlabs

Does anyone have other favorite art that im missing?

Ive been building a collection of my favorite art on @NBATopShot :

Just missing a cosmic. Also trying to grab one of those new 1-of-1 Holo parallels

“I don’t foul bait. I’m not looking to flop, but it’s almost like you have to. We commend players for playing the right way, but we give the benefit to those trying to manipulate the game.” -Jaylen Brown on foul baiting😳 (H/t @BiggLynch)

@coultin @NBATopShot @jbz2014 Thats a really nice looking moment

Last night I was watching Cedric Coward and Ty Jerome hanging out in a @NBATopShot break- I saw @jbz2014 landed the Jazz, and my jaw dropped when I saw he hit the Mojo Collier 5/5- Earlier today he messaged me, and we worked out a deal for the moment! I appreciate you dude! Locked forever!

@wolfdizzle7 @KingJames @NBATopShot Thats awesome. Takes a lot of work and patience to get the specific serial number youre looking for

Added another #330 serial to my ‘Just A Kid From Akron’ @KingJames collection. I know it’s not the grails you’ve been seeing, but it’s our area code and a cool way for me to collect on @NBATopShot! 💪🏼 🔥👑

Your semi-regular reminder that this would have been the best administration in a generation, and it's not even close... #MittPost

@jjlsmith2 Its ridiculous

I’m only on twitter for digital sports collectibles. I mute, block, rapidly scroll past anything that’s not sports related and it all still infects my feed. If I can’t fix it I’m deleting my account.

We received a request from the United States for specific support in protection against "shaheds" in the Middle East region. I gave instructions to provide the necessary means and ensure the presence of Ukrainian specialists who can guarantee the required security. Ukraine helps partners who help ensure our security and protect the lives of our people. Glory to Ukraine!

@coultin @NBATopShot Ive never been interested in collecting sets on topshot. In the physical space it feels like an achievement to track down a full set but on topshot i can just grab all of em in 5 min easy

Curious what my @NBATopShot peeps are feeling about set collecting this season. Do you feel more or less inclined to complete sets this year, with the new pack reward system, rather than challenge reward moments?

@Cardshark21NFT @CardAficionado I hadnt thought of that. That sounds interesting. Like maybe if a user hasnt logged on in a year theyd be inactive

@CardAficionado In the metrics graphs include the number of that specific moment that are in dormant accounts. Effectively showing that those moments are out of circ. Until further notice.

Thought experiment for the Top Shot community: Obviously, the early sets have a total mint that now looks excessive at all tiers. And this has created a barrier that some longer-term Top Shot customers have struggled to get over to embrace the newer approach. Commons sitting at 10,000-15,000 mints (or much much more) while drops the last couple of years come in at 4,000 or less for common and even more limited for other tiers. Every new limited release widens the gap from the legacy model and makes those older moments feel more like dead inventory than collectibles. Early drops rightly or wrongly were scaled for a much larger active user base and growth projections that did not materialize. But the result is the same: long-term holders watching their collections looking less relevant as new mints are adjusted to more realistic levels. So what could actually fix it? Here are three models I've been thinking about: 1. The Reverse Stock Split Let holders exchange a set number of copies (say 5) of a high-mint moment for a single new "Legacy Edition" at a dramatically lower mint count. You preserve the player and the highlight but compress the supply. The catch: you'd need a hard conversion deadline to hit critical mass and create the total population to use for serial number assignment. These could be delivered as reward packs so people can rip their reward or resell for those who want to play the serial lottery. 2. The Targeted Burn Pick a serial threshold (maybe around 4,000 to align with the earlier mint reduction approach) and run a burn campaign for everything above it. The incentive has to actually mean something. Not a raffle ticket. Not a $2 pack. Guaranteed access to a limited drop, meaningful Dapper balance, something that makes the decision feel like a no-brainer rather than a sacrifice. A genuine olive branch to those customers who help build Top Shot's ecosystem and kept it going through lean times. 3. The Fusion Instead of burning duplicates, holders combine multiple different moments from the same player (maybe 5 or so) into a new "Anthology" moment that only exists because those originals were sacrificed. The mint count isn't predetermined; it's set entirely by participation. This rewards the deep collectors who accumulated stacks and reframes those old commons as building blocks rather than heavy bags. None of these are perfect. All require Dapper to commit resources and take a clear stance on legacy supply. But doing nothing isn't going to bring back those who feel burned and their experiences become barriers to new adoption. Do any of these options appeal to you? What other options do you think could be realistically considered? Or is the better approach to just treat those older series as a past chapter and keep moving forward?

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