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Show me your favorite basketball pickup in 2014

JBrulesJBrules Posts: 2,126 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Would love to see some favorite hoop pickups for everyone this past year. Here is my favorite for this year. I have yet to see any better looking 1972 card of Jabbar.

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  • DanBessetteDanBessette Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭
    Wow that is a beastly card!
  • rtimmerrtimmer Posts: 1,347 ✭✭✭✭
    I actually got two great basketball cards this past year I'd been on the lookout for a while on. Here's my 1972, I hate the fish eyes so I wanted a clean example.

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  • DanBessetteDanBessette Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭
    We need a photo of that Doc without the protective Baggie.
  • elronmckenzieelronmckenzie Posts: 151 ✭
    I'm not really a basketball fan anymore since my Sonics left. However, I did pull the trigger on this when it popped up on the ol' 4SC. A CBA rookie of one of my favorite unsung, off the bench kind of guys.
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  • JBrulesJBrules Posts: 2,126 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I'm not really a basketball fan anymore since my Sonics left. However, I did pull the trigger on this when it popped up on the ol' 4SC. A CBA rookie of one of my favorite unsung, off the bench kind of guys.
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    Wow! The first time I have seen that card and it is a beauty. Thanks for sharing.
  • JBrulesJBrules Posts: 2,126 ✭✭✭✭✭
    rtimmer absolutely love the Erving rookie. I have been looking for one but I am somewhat picking with the centering and it appears very difficult to get a well-centered one. After searching high and low I had to settle for the time being with a lower grade example but looks great for the grade. Here is mine until I find the upgrade.

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  • DanBessetteDanBessette Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭
    That is a sexy 3 !!
  • slum22slum22 Posts: 2,594 ✭✭✭✭
    Love this thread. Wish we had more hoops threads up here. I love what everyone has up so far. The Erving RC's are beautiful, one of the most underrated cards in hoops collecting today. I remember Vincent Askew playing for my Warriors back when Nellie had a CBA pipeline (John Starks and Mario Elie were a couple other CBA finds for those early 90's Warriors teams). Basketball is my favorite sport and what I collect the most. Hard to pick one, but here are my favorite pickups for the year.

    Wilt RC for my 1961 set. I had been waiting and watching for a decent centered 7 for a while. This one isn't perfect but is definitely one of the stronger centered 7's I have seen.
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    Ripped a box of 2012 Elite and pulled this card with my son. The card is numbered to 25. Not the most valuable card picked up this year but the most fun for the year. We are Warriors fans and Curry is my son's favorite player. He keeps the cards from his rips, so this was the best card in his collection. I later submitted this card for him and it pulled a 10. He was so excited to get his first graded card, like he's seen Dad have, and a 10 to bootimage. I also submitted another Steph Curry auto card I bought raw for him in the same sub and it also got a 10. So my son is 2/2 in PSA 10'simage
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    Gotta have a pic of my favorite unopened pick up of the year in any sport. I have been looking for this box since I got back into the hobby two years ago. Big thanks to CPAMike for being my eyes and ears at the National and getting Steve to reserve this box for me at his booth.
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    Honorable mention to this card. The only reason this card doesn't rate higher is because I already had a self-submitted BGS 9 in the collection. I am a PSA guy now so this card has been on my radar for a long time. Nice to snag one with a pretty good deal from BBCE.
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    Can't wait to see what is in store for 2015 for myself and the rest of the hoops collectors on this board. My wishlist includes picking up a Magic Bird RC, an Erving RC, a Bill Russell RC and completing my 1961 Fleer set. I would love to trade in my PSA 9 Jordan RC and somehow get a PSA 10 but that is probably a pipe dream at this point.


    Steve
  • DanBessetteDanBessette Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭
    Wow Steve! I love the story about ripping boxes with your son, and about him getting his first graded card. My kids are the best part of my hobby experience as well.
  • EAsportsEAsports Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭
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  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
    good to see the 1972-73 Topps Set well represented here. it is and always will be my favorite set to buy, sell & collect. this year i managed to grab another raw set with varying conditions, but some very clean examples, particularly a few of the tougher ones. it had been awhile since i'd been able to locate some nice ABA player cards from this year as it seems to flip-flop when purchasing this set.....sometimes the NBA cards are real nice and the ABA cards suck, but this time around it was vice-versa.

    this card was one that made me happy.

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    overall, this year featured some nice additions to my hoops collection. hope to do better in 2015. great stuff in this thread. power jam.
  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,607 ✭✭✭✭
    This was a pretty quiet year for me on the basketball front. I did recently pick up this '33 SK Wachter, which leaves me 8 short of completing the HOF RC run:

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    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • RookieHOFersRookieHOFers Posts: 733 ✭✭✭
    I was pretty stoked to add this one.

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  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,607 ✭✭✭✭
    That's quite a beauty, Matt. I'd be stoked to own it, too!
    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • rtimmerrtimmer Posts: 1,347 ✭✭✭✭
    Nice Jordans! I love the 1980 topps box, it's a huge missing piece in my collection I wish I had. I really have no idea or good reason why I don't have one, I guess I spent all my resources chasing my Bird/Erving/Magic packs.

    I did add this one to my Chamberlain collection this year, which I always thought was a unique piece.

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  • RookieHOFersRookieHOFers Posts: 733 ✭✭✭
    Thanks Andy!

    That's a cool Chamberlain piece! Let's keep this going, I would love to see some more.
    Matt
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  • ldfergldferg Posts: 6,744 ✭✭✭
    I remember some basketball cards that used to be included in Sugar Daddy candy. Are any if those ever found without caramel residue ???


    Thanks,

    David (LD_Ferg)



    1985 Topps Football (starting in psa 8) - #9 - started 05/21/06
  • DanBessetteDanBessette Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭
    That chamberlain ruler rocks!
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