A Mid Summer's Quest 🧙♂️
The First Mint
Featuring the Okoro Quest, Market Movers, Malice at the Palace and more
Good Morning, NBA Top Shot squad! Happy Tuesday — hope you had an excellent weekend!
Let’s get into all the action from the last few days:
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A Summer Quest 🧙♂️
After a quiet week in NBA Top Shot, we got our first offseason quest on Monday — featuring a Summer League moment from Cleveland Cavaliers guard Isaac Okoro as the reward. The details:
⛱️Summer League Quest⛱️
Make a showcase🖼️ with:
💥4x Dunk Moments
⚔️3x @cavs Moments
Reward⭐️ @isaacokoro303 Summer League Moment
The Okoro moment will also be needed in an upcoming Summer League Challenge📦
Full Blog: https://t.co/h7nwtvTb5k https://t.co/sWUiDUnIxw
Full details via the Top Shot blog. As a Bulls fan, the only thing I think of when I see anything Cavs-related is Joakim Noah’s 2013 rant about how Cleveland sucks.
Market Movers 📊
Your trusty marketplace update, via @SteefCrypto:
Your weekly @nbatopshot market update:
Set split!
🏀 s2 up nearly 10% this week, while s1 falls a bit
🏀 Both sets still near 2-month highs
🏀 Overall volume, rate of new active users low.
Data via @cryptoslamio & @EvaluateMarket https://t.co/xjkOEKfEnY
The Series 2 Base Set (which was highlighted last week in the TFM pod with @Veerman as a potential undervalued one!) in particular saw a large rise. Via Evaluate.Market:
Malice Musings 🥊
I watched the Netflix documentary Untold: The Malice at the Palace this weekend, and it was captivating. Highly recommend for any basketball junkies out there!
The infamous brawl occurred in 2004 — just 17 years ago. But watching the documentary truly felt like eons ago. A few things that stuck with me in the days after:
🔹 The lack of security in the stadium was astounding, especially compared to the presence at pro sports arenas today.
🔹 Ron Artest (AKA Metta World Peace) was clearly going through a mental health crisis, but at a time where resources were lacking and the stigma against mental illness was still strong. His viewpoints of the whole situation (and his time in the NBA as a whole) are fascinating to hear.
The drama surrounding Artest post-brawl ended up clouding what could have been an amazing career — one of the best man defenders the league has seen.
🔹I had totally forgotten that 2004 ended up being Reggie Miller’s last season — perhaps ruining his best chance at a potential championship in an 18-year career.
🔹It is wild to see how much the perception of the NBA has changed in such a short time, as well as the narrative around player rights and social activism.
Again, highly recommend as a fun watch for basketball fans — but also for a peek into pro sports in a truly different time.
Around The First Mint 🗣
🎧 The Next Surprise On Top Shot
With Top Shot in a small lull, we use this episode to speculate on what might be coming next on the platform. Will it be a Summer 2021 Roadmap, the rakeback, or maybe even NBA Team Collector Score Integrations?
📹 Live Show: The Space Jam In Our Stars
🎧 The Value of Series 2 (Feat. Steve Veerman)
Thanks for reading! — Zach @ The First Mint
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