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Blake Griffin Predicts Boston Celtics To Pull Off Comeback & Beat New York Knicks: ‘It Goes 7 Games’

By: bitcoin ethereum news|2025/05/09 10:00:03
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Blake Griffin is predicting the Boston Celtics will come back and defeat the New York Knicks in ... More their semifinals series. (Photo by Brian Fluharty/Getty Images) Blake Griffin still believes the Boston Celtics will pull it off. The former six-time All-Star played his final season with the Celtics and is familiar with most of the team’s current core, such as Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Derrick White and Al Horford. Although the Celtics are trailing in their series against the New York Knicks, 2-0, after losing their first two home games, Griffin isn’t counting out Boston. In fact, he predicts the Celtics to win in seven games. “I think it goes seven games,” says Griffin in a one-on-one interview. “I think the Celtics tie it up and I’ll take the Celtics. I’ll go for it.” The Celtics lost the first two games by a combined four points and have blown leads in both games. In fact, Boston led by 16 points at halftime in Game 1 and led by 12 points entering the fourth quarter in Game 2. Boston cost themselves in Game 1 by overly relying on their 3-point shot, going 15-for-60 from beyond the arc (25.0%). In Game 2, they went cold, making one field goal attempt in the last eight minutes of the game. “When you have a lead, sometimes it’s a classic thing — you sort of start playing not to lose,” says Griffin. “You sort of get out of your your flow of the offense, or however the game has gone the first three quarters and that’s what it looked like. In Game 1, it just seemed like they sort of started going to a little bit too much ISO, not as much drive, draw, kick, not as much of their original offense, their goal offense.” Griffin hammers home how the fourth quarter has obviously been a major issue for the Celtics. “It just seems like the fourth quarter obviously has been the nemesis for them, but it feels like they’ve just gotten outside of how they play,” says Griffin. “They played the first three quarters sort of the same way, getting up a lot of threes. I think they sort of change their style when they feel that pressure. They have to figure something out — I think they still can. The Knicks can go into TD Garden and win two. I think the Celtics can do that as well.” While Griffin is pointing out the Celtics’ flaws in their two losses to the Knicks, he also makes sure to give credit to the Knicks for “forcing” Boston into struggling. “You got to give credit to the Knicks, because they’ve forced them to do that as well,” says Griffin. “Offensively, the Knicks, I thought they just got out and ran. They’d get stops, they’d run, they’d get fouls, they’ve got the Celtics on their heels a little bit. I think it’s a combination of all those things.” The former Rookie of the Year says that in order to beat the Knicks, you have to play four full quarters — not just three quarters or 45 minutes. “The Knicks are just so well coached, it seems like they’re just in it for the long haul,” says Griffin. “You can’t play three good quarters, three-and-a-half good quarters. You can’t really play 45 good minutes against them. You have to play 48 because they just always find a way. I think they’re just sort of used to that, that style of basketball on the Celtics side.” While Griffin is picking the defending champs, he makes sure to mention that it’ll be an “awesome” series regardless which way it goes. “As a basketball fan, this has a chance to be an awesome series,” says Griffin. Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/djsiddiqi/2025/05/08/blake-griffin-predicts-boston-celtics-to-pull-off-comeback–beat-new-york-knicks-it-goes-7-games/

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BeatSwap is evolving towards a full-stack Web3 infrastructure, covering the entire lifecycle of IP rights.

The core product "Space" is scheduled to launch in Q2 2026, driven by SocialFi


BeatSwap, a global Web3 Intellectual Property (IP) infrastructure project, is attempting to overcome the current fragmentation limitations of the Web3 ecosystem, building a full-stack system that covers the entire lifecycle of IP rights.


Currently, most Web3 projects are still in the stage of functional fragmentation, often focusing only on a single aspect, such as IP asset tokenization, transaction functionality, or a simple incentive model. This structural dispersion has become a key bottleneck hindering the industry's scale application.


BeatSwap's approach is more integrated, integrating multiple core modules into the same system, including:


· IP authentication and on-chain registration

· Authorization-based revenue sharing mechanism

· User-engagement-driven incentive system

· Transaction and liquidity infrastructure


Through the above integration, the platform builds an end-to-end closed-loop path, allowing IP rights to complete a full cycle of "creation, use, and monetization" within the same ecosystem.


Expanding from Web3 to a broader market: Restructuring the music industry's supply-demand structure


BeatSwap is not limited to existing crypto users but is attempting to take the global music industry as a starting point, actively creating new market demand. Its core strategies include:


Exploring and incubating music creators (Artist discovery)

Building a fan community

Igniting IP-centric content consumption demand


The current global music industry is valued at around $260 billion, with over 2 billion digital music users. This means that the potential market corresponding to the tokenization and financialization of IP far exceeds the traditional crypto user base.


In this context, BeatSwap positions itself at the intersection of "real-world content demand" and "on-chain infrastructure," attempting to bridge the structural gap between content production and financial flow.


"Space" to Launch in Q2 2026: Building the Core of SocialFi


BeatSwap's upcoming core product "Space" is scheduled to launch in the second quarter of 2026. This product is defined as the SocialFi layer in the ecosystem, aiming to directly connect creators with users and achieve deep integration with other platform modules.


Key designs include:

A fan-centric interactive mechanism

Exposure and distribution logic based on $BTX staking

User paths connected to DeFi and liquidity structures


Thus, a complete user behavior loop is formed within the platform: Discovery → Participation → Consumption → Rewards → Trading


$BTX Token Mechanism: Evolving from an Incentive Tool to a Value Carrier


$BTX is designed to be a core utility asset within the ecosystem, rather than just a simple incentive token, with its value directly tied to platform activity and IP use cases.


Main features include:


· Yield distribution based on on-chain authorized actions

· Value reflection based on IP usage and user engagement dynamics

· Support for staking and DeFi participation mechanisms

· Value growth driven by ecosystem expansion


With the increased frequency of IP use, the utility and value support of $BTX will enhance simultaneously, helping alleviate the "disconnect between value and utility" issue present in traditional Web3 token models to some extent.


Accelerating Global Exchange Layout: Enhancing Liquidity and Accessibility


Currently, $BTX has been listed on several mainstream exchanges, including:


Binance Alpha

Gate

MEXC

OKX Boost


As the launch of "Space" approaches, BeatSwap is actively pursuing more exchange listings to further enhance liquidity and global accessibility, laying a foundation for future market expansion.


Beyond Web3: Aiming for a Larger-Scale Integration of Content and Finance Markets


BeatSwap's goal is no longer limited to the traditional Web3 narrative but aims to target over 2 billion digital music users and a trillion KRW-scale content market.


By integrating content creators, users, capital, and liquidity into a blockchain framework centered around IP rights, BeatSwap is striving to build a next-generation infrastructure focused on "IP tokenization."


Conclusion


BeatSwap integrates IP authentication, authorization distribution, incentive mechanism, transaction system, and market construction to establish a unified structure that bridges the full lifecycle path of IP rights.


With the launch of the Q2 2026 "Space," the project is expected to become a key infrastructure connecting content and finance in the IP-RWA (Real World Assets) track.


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