{"id":26386,"date":"2025-05-12T17:47:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T17:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/nba-legend-pippen-backs-xrp-doge-ada-amid-altseason-push\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T17:47:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T17:47:04","slug":"nba-legend-pippen-backs-xrp-doge-ada-amid-altseason-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=26386","title":{"rendered":"NBA Legend Pippen Backs XRP, DOGE, ADA Amid Altseason Push"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>TL;DR<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Altcoins like Ethereum (ETH), Dogecoin (DOGE), and others have recently outperformed Bitcoin (BTC), fueling speculation that altseason has officially begun.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>The NBA icon Scottie Pippen, seen by some as a BTC maximalist, shares that assumption, saying he is bullish on several digital assets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PIPPEN_CB.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-396231\" src=\"http:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PIPPEN_CB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1201\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PIPPEN_CB.jpg 1201w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PIPPEN_CB-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PIPPEN_CB-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PIPPEN_CB-768x460.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PIPPEN_CB-50x30.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1201px) 100vw, 1201px\"><\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2>Bullish on These Altcoins<\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Bitcoin\u2019s (BTC) price has soared substantially in the past few weeks, briefly <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/pi-and-these-altcoins-surge-the-most-as-bitcoin-btc-neared-106k-market-watch\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">surpassing<\/a> $105,000 just hours ago. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It is up 25% <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">on a monthly scale<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, but some leading altcoins have posted even more substantial increases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Ethereum (ETH), for instance, has <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">pumped by<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> 40% in the past week, while Dogecoin (DOGE) and other meme coins have charted similar gains. With the altcoins stealing the show from BTC, speculation is growing that the long-anticipated <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">altseason<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> has arrived.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">A supporter of that thesis is the basketball legend Scottie Pippen. He <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ScottiePippen\/status\/1921317743774593468\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">asked<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> his over 720,000 followers on X what projects they are bullish on, saying that he pays special attention to Ethereum (ETH), Ripple (XRP), Dogecoin (DOGE), Cardano (ADA), Shiba Inu (SHIB), Mog Coin (MOG), and others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Some of the users commenting on the post expressed optimism in tokens like Pepe (PEPE), Bittensor (TAO), Sui (SUI), Hedera (HBAR), and more. Others were somewhat surprised by Pippen\u2019s interest in altcoins, considering him mainly a BTC proponent.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Dream That Almost Became Reality<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It was September 2024 when<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> the NBA icon stunned the crypto community with an interesting price prediction involving the biggest cryptocurrency.<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> He <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/interesting-bitcoin-price-prediction-from-nba-legend-scottie-pippen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">said<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> he had a dream with the mysterious creator of BTC, Satoshi Nakamoto, who forecasted that the price would reach $84,650 on November 5 last year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">At that time, the valuation stood at roughly $57,000, and a 50% rally in such a short period seemed rather unlikely. However, November 5 <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/us-presidential-elections-2024-results-donald-trump-declares-victory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">marked<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> Donald Trump\u2019s presidential victory, which turned out to be the beginning of a massive rally that took BTC to an ATH of almost $110,000 in January this year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">On the day of the elections, the price soared above $70,000, and less than a week later, it hit the target <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">from<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> Pippen\u2019s dream.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Around New Year\u2019s Eve, the legendary player of the Chicago Bulls\u2019 dream team in the 1990s <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/nba-legend-who-predicted-bitcoins-bull-run-now-sets-a-1-million-target\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">made<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> another BTC prediction, this time even more bullish. He envisioned a price explosion to the staggering one million per BTC, thus placing himself among firm advocates of the asset, including Arthur Hayes, Robert Kiyosaki, Cathie Wood, Michael Saylor, Changpeng Zhao (CZ), and more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/nba-legend-pippen-backs-xrp-doge-ada-amid-altseason-push\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">NBA Legend Pippen Backs XRP, DOGE, ADA Amid Altseason Push<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TL;DR Altcoins like Ethereum (ETH), Dogecoin (DOGE), and others have recently outperformed Bitcoin (BTC), fueling speculation that altseason has officially begun. The NBA icon Scottie Pippen, seen by some as a BTC maximalist, shares that assumption, saying he is bullish on several digital assets. Bullish on These Altcoins Bitcoin\u2019s (BTC) price has soared substantially in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-26386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}