NBA oddballs?

thehallmark

DPeck's Bumblebee Tuna thread sparked a thought... Past few years of collecting I've been drawn especially to pre RCs and oddball/food distrib sets. Spent a lot of time learning about such sets for baseball and football. Curious now from the seasoned vets here - what are the best looking and/or most coveted oddball basketball sets from the 70s/80s?

erikthredd

With the recent Chicago Bulls frenzy tied to the Last Dance documentary both of the 1987 & 1988 Bulls Entenmann's sets have been real hot lately. I picked up this 87 MJ a few weeks back and have his '88 PSA 9 coming soon from a seller in Korea.

blurryface

I like the joans greek cards.

doubledragon

If you're a Bulls collector, I've always liked the Bulls Equal Nutra Sweet cards.

doubledragon

This set is awesome, it's the 1972-73 Icee Bear set. They feature some major star power, and they're not difficult to find and PSA grades them. I love the Icee bear on the backs!

doubledragon

There's also the famous 1972 Comspec set, they're not difficult to find, but they are very pricey, especially the major stars.

erikthredd

A few more oddball sets that I can think of are:
1991 Fleer Wheaties (cut from the boxes): https://www.tradingcarddb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/136396
1991-92 Fleer Tony's Pizza: https://www.tradingcarddb.com/ViewSet.cfm/sid/72865/1991-92-Fleer-Tony's-Pizza

Kid4hof03

My two favorites (the two sets I'm working on) are 1975 SuperStar Sock and 1978-79 R.C. cards

shagrotn77

I, too, am very into pre-RCs, specifically HOF pre-RCs. I started to post some here, but there are too many to show. You can see them in my Showcase set here:

https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/mysetregistry/set/78293

I have a few prior to the 70s as well. I think the '54 Houbregs is my favorite. It's the only one PSA has ever graded.

BLUEJAYWAY

Great group posted above.

secretstash

1952 Royal Desserts Hand Cut set is quite possibly the rarest and the cards have extreme value if you can find them.