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 Pour your coffee, take a seat, and pull your phone out. It's time to check your portfolio. Welcome to another edition of PredictionStrike's Weekly Update, where we'll break down some of the most interesting storylines, talk about the biggest & best performances, and try to tie it all back to athletes' stock prices and how we should be viewing the markets. This is without a doubt one of the weirdest NBA playoff runs in the past 20 years. This weekend gave us two Game 7s and a Game 6 that felt like the 7th. The conference finals will feature the  Phoenix Suns , who haven't been in the playoffs since 2010, the  Los Angeles Clippers , who till this point have never made the WCF, the  Milwaukee Bucks , who haven't won a championship since 1971, and the  Atlanta Hawks , who haven't made the finals since they moved to Atlanta in 1969. Either  CP3  (0%, $8.36/share),  PG13  (+35, $4.85/share),  Giannis  (+0%, $2.94/share), or  Trae  (-9%, $2.25/share) will

Pour your coffee, take a seat, and pull your phone out. It's time to check your portfolio. Welcome to another edition of PredictionStrike's Weekly Update, where we'll break down some of the most interesting storylines, talk about the biggest & best performances, and try to tie it all back to athletes' stock prices and how we should be viewing the markets. The Big Deals:   What's driving the discourse this week? It's way too easy to hate on the  Clippers , and way too hard to praise them. I wish I could push past the jokes, be mature, and view the game fairly, but... I'm just a man. That said, it's not ingenuine to say that even though the  Mavericks   lost,  Luka   (+6%, $6.36/share) is the talk of the town after he put up 46, 7, and 14 in Game 7.  Kawhi   (+6%, $4.78/share) looks worthy of best player in the world talk again, but everywhere you go this week you'll find an article or see a talking-head asking how Dallas can turn the ship around b