Bought a pack of retail 02'03 Topps bkball today,Strange pulls.

NikeBasketball

Not a complaint actually quite happy with it,But I buy a retail $1.99 pack of 02'03 Topps at wal mart today (Was the last pack they had). 13 cards to a pack and heres what was in it.

Jay Williams RC
Frank Williams RC
Mike Dunleavy RC
Amare Stoudamire RC
Dan Dickau RC
Jiri Welch RC
Nikoloz Tskitishvili RC
Dajuan Wagner RC
and 5 of the Lakers Championship card.Very strange must of been a screw up with the pack loading machine at the factory or something.But definately worth the buck 99.

uwftke26

Hard to argue with that $1.99 purchase

zimmy3

what do those cards book

NikeBasketball

I have'nt a clue.I think I saw someone say the Jay Williams books $8 or $10 as for the others no idea,But I figure maybe $25 to $30 worth of cards for $1.99.Beats my usual luck like when I buy one of the more expensive packs and pull all commons

bjork73

I pulled like 20-30 rookies in the one HTA/jumbo pack I bought in 02-03 Topps; I think the collation was screwed up for the entire release, but at least it makes for some interesting packs

8kobe

Do you think that it could possibly be hot packs? I remember when that was a hott topic.

bjork73

Eh... since the phenomenon seems to be mainly with the base cards I don't think it can be considered a "hot pack" thing per se. I got the "Total O" insert set from a Hot Pack of 95-96 Fleer Series 2... and a regular Jordan "Total O"... and a Shaq "Towers of Power"... all from the same box Also, I bought a retail box of 1995 ProLine (sometime in '96) that was very obviously got a Hot Box (they were advertised to exist like one per 600 boxes or so); alas, the players I got autographs of weren't so hot... (best pulls... 8, yes that's EIGHT, Keenan McCardell autographs ). I think I pulled a total of like 37 autographs, but the most valuable ones are the McCardell's at an astounding $12 each I think there's supposed to be Hot Mini-Boxes of 02 Finest Football (the one I bought wasn't one of them ), but I think that's just a formalization of what tends to be a trend of fairly screwy collation (perhaps intentionally so) in Topps Products.

That's my $2.67

NikeBasketball

The fact that it had 5 duplicate Laker Champ. cards in the 1 pack leads me to think it was more of a screw up than a hot pack.Either way I'm still very happy with it.