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The (un)official PC Showdown Special Comments Guy
Last mailday ended up in 2001 with the dunk title awarded to Desmond Mason.....
This mailday we'll be paying homage to Jason Richardson as the back to back dunk champ in 2002 and 2003 and little known Fred Jones who took th title home in 2004.
2002 and 2003 Dunk Champion - Jason Ricahrdson - surpisingly no other personal or team accoldaes other than an all-rookie team nod.
2002-03 Upper Deck MVP - Air Apparent - from the right era and quite simply quite an amazing looking card...
2001-02 Topps Chrome - Fast & Furious - thought I had the refractor version, so this was obviously a mistake, nevertheless a colourful and blingy card always has pelnty of eye appeal. Plus the Warriros have always been knwon as a team to get up and down the court pretty quickly with some small ball lineups - so fast & furious seems to fit perfectly!
2003-04 Fleer Focus - Home & Away /500 - Nice diecut and dual sided pics which is meant to emphasies the stats for that year when playing at hoem and away. Pretty hard cards to come across in decent condition so glad to have nabbed this copy.
2004-05 Skybox L.E. Artist Proof /50 - Love the use of the red coloured foil, espcially for the serial numering on the back. Looks classy.
2003-04 Fleer Patchworks - [Base] - Ruby - hard to find these in good condition given the significant use of black on the left hand side of the card for edges and corners. This version is dinged up a bit but still loks fantastic in hand, great pic and once again with the red foil. NOICE!
2004-05 Fleer Showcase Legacy Collection /125 - Definitely among the most beautiful cards ever produced, hard to say anything bad about it. Scans definitely don't do these cards any justice. . ...and check out the numbering, ebay 1/1 baby!
2004 Dunk Champion - Fred Jones - no other NBA team or personal accolades. However, as a side note, Jones won the title with his last attempt technically being a layup!
2005-06 Topps First Row Charity Stripe Silver /99 - has that same Paramount Dufex shimmer pattern going onwhich is rather hypnotic - soemthign different to look at.... Ironically the whole point of this card is to focus on FT% - which Fred was pretty good at apparently!
2002-03 Fleer Showcase Legacy Collection Row 1 /100 - nice raised borders off of the card and gold stamping for the serial numbering on the reverse. Text also specifies that this was a a Rookie Legacy Collection which is nice. Again though, the dark borders wmeans these old copies are pretty easy to get dinged up and show corner / edge wear.
2002-03 Topps Pristine Rookie Refractor Uncirculated /1899 - I'm a sucker for uncircualted cards, even though somewhat ironically the card would have changed hands several times - lol. Topps factory seal, refractor, rookie card, serial numbered and from one of the more under-rated products imo being Topps Pristine. Apologies for the sh*t scan...
2002-03 Upper Deck Super Swatches / 200 - not much to say here other than this is an old school swatch and a bloody massive one at that. Nice team colours to boot with the notable pin stripes. Rookie year too btw, if that makes a difference.
Finally what better way to wrap up this rather lacklustre mailday thread than with a card with both the 02, 03 and 04 slam dunk champs together on it.
2004-05 Upper Deck All-Star Weekend Authentics Double - with materials sriaght from the 2004 all-star weekend, in which of course Fred Jones took the title from Jason Richardson to prevent his three-peat.
Well that's another lunch hour (or so) that has gone by so thanks for stopping by and having a look, comments most appreciated - and stay tuned for the last instalment being part 3!
This mailday we'll be paying homage to Jason Richardson as the back to back dunk champ in 2002 and 2003 and little known Fred Jones who took th title home in 2004.
2002 and 2003 Dunk Champion - Jason Ricahrdson - surpisingly no other personal or team accoldaes other than an all-rookie team nod.
2001-02 Topps Chrome - Fast & Furious - thought I had the refractor version, so this was obviously a mistake, nevertheless a colourful and blingy card always has pelnty of eye appeal. Plus the Warriros have always been knwon as a team to get up and down the court pretty quickly with some small ball lineups - so fast & furious seems to fit perfectly!
2003-04 Fleer Focus - Home & Away /500 - Nice diecut and dual sided pics which is meant to emphasies the stats for that year when playing at hoem and away. Pretty hard cards to come across in decent condition so glad to have nabbed this copy.
2004-05 Skybox L.E. Artist Proof /50 - Love the use of the red coloured foil, espcially for the serial numering on the back. Looks classy.
2003-04 Fleer Patchworks - [Base] - Ruby - hard to find these in good condition given the significant use of black on the left hand side of the card for edges and corners. This version is dinged up a bit but still loks fantastic in hand, great pic and once again with the red foil. NOICE!
2004-05 Fleer Showcase Legacy Collection /125 - Definitely among the most beautiful cards ever produced, hard to say anything bad about it. Scans definitely don't do these cards any justice. . ...and check out the numbering, ebay 1/1 baby!
2004 Dunk Champion - Fred Jones - no other NBA team or personal accolades. However, as a side note, Jones won the title with his last attempt technically being a layup!
2005-06 Topps First Row Charity Stripe Silver /99 - has that same Paramount Dufex shimmer pattern going onwhich is rather hypnotic - soemthign different to look at.... Ironically the whole point of this card is to focus on FT% - which Fred was pretty good at apparently!
2002-03 Fleer Showcase Legacy Collection Row 1 /100 - nice raised borders off of the card and gold stamping for the serial numbering on the reverse. Text also specifies that this was a a Rookie Legacy Collection which is nice. Again though, the dark borders wmeans these old copies are pretty easy to get dinged up and show corner / edge wear.
2002-03 Topps Pristine Rookie Refractor Uncirculated /1899 - I'm a sucker for uncircualted cards, even though somewhat ironically the card would have changed hands several times - lol. Topps factory seal, refractor, rookie card, serial numbered and from one of the more under-rated products imo being Topps Pristine. Apologies for the sh*t scan...
2002-03 Upper Deck Super Swatches / 200 - not much to say here other than this is an old school swatch and a bloody massive one at that. Nice team colours to boot with the notable pin stripes. Rookie year too btw, if that makes a difference.
Finally what better way to wrap up this rather lacklustre mailday thread than with a card with both the 02, 03 and 04 slam dunk champs together on it.
2004-05 Upper Deck All-Star Weekend Authentics Double - with materials sriaght from the 2004 all-star weekend, in which of course Fred Jones took the title from Jason Richardson to prevent his three-peat.
Well that's another lunch hour (or so) that has gone by so thanks for stopping by and having a look, comments most appreciated - and stay tuned for the last instalment being part 3!
