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Featuring Lakers Woes, A Legendary NBA Partnership, Top Shot Twitter Talk, Challenging Challenges, LG's Sorare Thoughts & More

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Oct 29, 2022
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Good Morning, B&B Squad! Hope you had an excellent week, and cheers to the weekend!

A few things I’ve been seeing across the hardwood:

  • The Lakers are in a whole lotta’ trouble. Sitting at 0-5, Anthony Davis’ injury woes look to be back, Russell Westbrook is who he is at this point — everything is just a mess. If I’m the Lakers, I’m hoping LeBron James pushes his way out. Blow this thing up and go into a full rebuild.

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  • Ben Simmons also looks… really bad! I have to admit, I was dead wrong so far — I really thought Simmons could get back to his previous form and be a real factor. Maybe he still can, but the early tape has NOT been promising.

  • This rookie class has some real talent. Paolo Banchero already looks like a star, Benedict Mathurin has that dawg in him, and we’ve seen flashes from several other solid looking youngsters (Keegan Murray, Jaden Ivey, Jalen Duren, Jabari Smith Jr.).

Let’s get into all the action from the last few days:


A Legendary 50 🧊

We got a cool new announcement from NBA Top Shot this week, partnering with the NBA Players Association to celebrate 50 players that define the 2022-23 season.

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NBPA @TheNBPA
.@NBATopShot and the NBPA have partnered to launch Top Shot 50, a campaign that will celebrate the 50 players who define the 2022-23 season through the plays that highlight their greatness. 🔗: nbpa.com/news/nba-top-s…
4:18 PM ∙ Oct 26, 2022
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Chosen by the players (more specifically, ‘dozens’ of players representing the NBPA), the new Top Shot 50 will replace the Holo Icon set, and be minted sometime after the season concludes. As for the specific highlights? That’s up to collectors, who will get to vote on which play makes it into the set.

I’m into the partnership, and hopefully we see some fun engagement from players getting competitive for spots — similar to what we saw for the NBA 100 in previous seasons. Also, shout out to Harrison Barnes, a longtime Top Shot fan still grinding out there!

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TheFirstMint @TheFirstMint
Top Shot has renamed the HOLO set to “Top Shot 50” Do you like this
11:41 PM ∙ Oct 26, 2022

I’m not really into the name change, as I think Holo Icon felt exclusive and cool. I’ll also be interested to see how the legendary market looks for Series 4, considering it sounds like the flagship set won’t be minted until the summer.


Top Shot Talk 🗣

It’s been a polarizing start to the season as always for Top Shot, with a mixture of sentiments across the community. And the rollercoaster has been apparent in the Twitter streets, with a few different conversations catching my eye.

Here was the platform catching strays from Darren Rovell (expected), and ESPN2 show Jalen & Jacoby(???):

Rovell sucks — and has been posting trollish posts about Top Shot before it was cool. Boo that man. But I guess we won’t be seeing a Jalen Rose leaderboard anytime soon?

Elsewhere in the Twitterverse was… Twitter — with Dapper Labs being one of the first companies to get the NFT Tweet Tile treatment:

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Twitter Dev @TwitterDev
Now testing: NFT Tweet Tiles 🚀 Some links to NFTs on @rarible, @MagicEden, @dapperlabs and @Jumptradenft will now show you a larger picture of the NFT alongside details like the title and creator. One more step in our journey to let developers impact the Tweet experience.
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7:00 PM ∙ Oct 27, 2022
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And finally, a voice that I feature here often — one that I trust to call it like he sees it when it comes to the platform:

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Jon Jackson @jonboybeats
This S4 Flash Challenge structure is in a downward spiral already Burn 4 Rares for an unannounced fandom? Still don’t know what player’s set, moment, mint limits are… Need to give the collectors some certainty on this stuff Bummer it’s not as innovative as it could have been
5:24 PM ∙ Oct 28, 2022
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I personally haven’t been super engaged with the challenges so far — and the lack of clarity is a big reason why. I want to know WHY I should be burning and completing these expensive and complex challenges, other than for the opportunity to get a random new moment. Give us exciting ways to burn! The League Pass initiative was a great example — how about jerseys, merch, tickets, anything that isn’t another moment?

Speaking of burning, at least the team will be getting in on the action:

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NBA Top Shot Updates @topshot_updates
As promised in our plans for the 2022-23 NBA season, NBA Top Shot will be burning 2+ million previously unreleased Series 3 Base Set Moments to kick off our campaign of burning previously unreleased Moments from S1, S2, and S3.
10:19 PM ∙ Oct 28, 2022
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Thanks for reading! — Zach @ The First Mint

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