Couple of new KG's - beautiful cards for low $

[GarnettFan4Life]

Got these in today - some great looking cards, all $20 or way under! Lovely!



Star Gazing

Smooth Operators

Fantastic 15

Guaranteed Fresh

Rock n Fire

Great Expectations

 

[OutlawNinja]

Love that Guaranteed Fresh design.
Always been a sucker for the embossed cards, quality inserts !

 

[GarnettFan4Life]

Love that Guaranteed Fresh design.
Always been a sucker for the embossed cards, quality inserts !

For sure - it's always a nice surprise when you get cards that have been kept in good condition! A few of these will be off to PSA next month so it should be very cool

 

[Dodgydave]

I always enjoy seeing inserts I pulled as a kid.

Fantastic 15 Damon Stoudamire FTW — remember when Mighty Mouse was a thing! I was sure I had a Great Expectations as well, but maybe my brother got that one. We certainly bought enough '98-99 Fleer Tradition.

Keep up the '90s goodness.

 

[GarnettFan4Life]

I bloody love Fleer Tradition and that Great Expectations is my fav of the bunch today - so nice

I was not opening packs 1998-2008 or somewhere there abouts so I missed out big time!

 

[Dodgydave]

A random bike shop was the last place in our town selling cards in the late '90s, Fleer Tradition and Hoops.

I used to skip school to walk down once a week and buy some packs and the weekly Pro Basketball Today newspaper — to scour the box scores before internet!

We did alright out of Fleer Tradition — I have a Grant Hill Electrifying, Bobby Jackson Rookie Rewind and David Robinson Timeless Memories and I am sure we got a Great Expectations. Hoops on the other hand — nothing but three Pump Up the Jam, though I did hit the Jordan.

We did manage three Autographics from this era though Chris Carr, Cory Alexander and Dana Barros aren't gonna pay off the mortgage!

 

[GarnettFan4Life]

A bike shop! So random!

I sort of miss the days of checking out box scores in the newspapers and loved Pro Basketball Today. Kids are missing out these days having to look at screens imo

 

[Dodgydave]

A bike shop! So random!

I sort of miss the days of checking out box scores in the newspapers and loved Pro Basketball Today. Kids are missing out these days having to look at screens imo

PBT was the highlight of my week — I used to add up all the box score stats for each player then had my own ranking system I used to determine who the best player was each week.

Such a nerd!

 

[Hornso]

I love reading stories like this on here…Basketball culture in the 90s was so great.

Congrats on the pickups @GarnettFan4Life! I hope to delve into the 1995-2009 era sometime.

I particularly like the Z Force. Good luck with the submission and looking forward to seeing the results.

 

[GarnettFan4Life]

Thanks for looking mate!

Cards have been added to my Flickr if anyone wants to check out everything I got this week

 

[skip20]

A random bike shop was the last place in our town selling cards in the late '90s, Fleer Tradition and Hoops.

I used to skip school to walk down once a week and buy some packs and the weekly Pro Basketball Today newspaper — to scour the box scores before internet!

We did alright out of Fleer Tradition — I have a Grant Hill Electrifying, Bobby Jackson Rookie Rewind and David Robinson Timeless Memories and I am sure we got a Great Expectations. Hoops on the other hand — nothing but three Pump Up the Jam, though I did hit the Jordan.

We did manage three Autographics from this era though Chris Carr, Cory Alexander and Dana Barros aren't gonna pay off the mortgage!

I still have a massive stack of the Pro Basketball Today magazines - used to buy them most during the trade period to keep up to speed! If you ever wanted to relive the nostalgia you know who to ask!

 

[skip20]

Love the textured Great Expectations - seen a ton of pics but never ralised they were liek that in hand, great pics btw!

 

[GarnettFan4Life]

Thanks skip!

 

[Dodgydave]

I still have a massive stack of the Pro Basketball Today magazines - used to buy them most during the trade period to keep up to speed! If you ever wanted to relive the nostalgia you know who to ask!

Nice — I am sure all of mine would have been thrown away long ago. No doubt along with the large stack of SLAM magazines.

 

[Essellohbeebeewhy]

ive never seen that smooth operators...got to be an all time image on a card!!

 

[GarnettFan4Life]

ive never seen that smooth operators...got to be an all time image on a card!!

i'm glad you mentioned that! I'm picking up a lot of specific cards with great images or textures regardless of if they are common/cheap they are still cool!