Top Shot Enters the Offseason 🗓
Featuring Warriors Championship Badges, Pack Draft Fun, A Doris Burke Contest & More
Good Morning, NFT Squad! Hope you all had an excellent week!
Apologies for not gracing your inbox on Thursday — my wife and I came down with COVID (again) after attending a wedding last weekend and have been down bad! Stay healthy out there.
Also, congratulations to the NBA Champion Golden State Warriors! I’ve said it before, but it’s pretty impossible not to root for Stephen Curry & Klay Thompson — and their re-ascent to the top of the mountain after several years is truly an impressive feat.
A great montage recapping the entire NBA season, if you want some laughs:
Let’s get into all the action from the last few days:
Drafting Packs 💡
With the NBA officially entering offseason-mode, the next major event on the calendar is the 2022 NBA Draft on Thursday, July 23.
And to Top Shot’s credit, they’ve come up with a pretty sweet little opportunity for 14 lucky collectors — a pack draft!
It feels like most of the ‘big features’ and positive announcements we get lately are either a. long anticipated by the community or b. suggested by users. So credit to TS for coming up with something that I haven’t seen mentioned or thought of, and it’s a unique and fun concept!
I imagine Roham walking out to announce the picks to a chorus of angry collectors and hecklers, a la David Stern:
Bringing Home the Badges 🏆
The Warriors brought home the hardware on Thursday night, and were rewarded with their Top Shot Championship Badges immediately after the game:
The badges didn’t seem to result in a significant bump across the S3 Golden State market, but we did see a high-end sales of Steph Curry ($14,999 TS Debut).
TS user @JustGlyding snagged a different TS debut:
(Here is an article for some context, if you aren’t familiar with Fake Klay)
Another Dose of Doris 🎤
In a promotion that feels tailor-made for the dog days of the offseason and not one day after the Finals… Doris Burke will be narrating user-submitted highlights recreating their favorite moments from the NBA season:
I love Doris… But my corny-meter is reading off the charts for this one.
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