A Rolling Mailday Thread (Basketball)

[BucksInSix]

Grabbed this recently and it arrived today. For $60 this seemed like a no-brainer.

[ChrisP57]

Grabbed this recently and it arrived today. For $60 this seemed like a no-brainer.

Dang..an on card jersey auto of KG for 60 bucks?! Absolute steal!!

[BucksInSix]

Grabbed this recently and it arrived today. For $60 this seemed like a no-brainer.

Dang..an on card jersey auto of KG for 60 bucks?! Absolute steal!!

I was shocked when I saw it pop up for so low, even more shocked when in got mailed.

Also, an update to another steal from back in March. Picked up an Iverson 2004/05 Upper Deck Flight Team Rainbow for $25. PSA pop count in 20 years since it released stood at (2) both PSA 7. Got my reveal the other day. Very happy to have the highest graded. I usually don’t care about grading, but older sets that have quality issues, I can make an exception.

[AbraCalabro]

Grabbed this recently and it arrived today. For $60 this seemed like a no-brainer.

[ChrisP57]

Final Mailday of the month. Love picking up Lebron Rookie when I can

[ChrisP57]

Been wanting a Game Used Cousy forever since he doesn't have very much out there and finally got one!

[Duncancollector]

Here is my latest pick up. I was on a german cardshow yesterday.

For my Duncan PC

1000081371 by Aron Gerstmann, auf Flickr

[SacKingsCards]

That KG for $60 is insanity. Congrats on picking that up.

Another awesome legend GU Chris!

And beautiful Duncan patch, I feel like it’s super rare to see his patches like that. So many of them are just trim.

[SacKingsCards]

I picked this guy up last week. I’m loving how stupid cheap some cards are now. $4 for photoshoot worn chunky, stitchy patch? Yes please. Does gold jersey, gold patch, gold foil count as color match

[ReggieEvansPC]

I picked this guy up last week. I’m loving how stupid cheap some cards are now. $4 for photoshoot worn chunky, stitchy patch? Yes please. Does gold jersey, gold patch, gold foil count as color match

Great looking card - those gold Kings jerseys were awesome.

[SacKingsCards]

Great looking card - those gold Kings jerseys were awesome.

Thanks! I hadn’t really considered how great they’d look as patches especially with gold foil. It’s funny because I think people generally agree that those Kings golds are historically ugly lol

[Deadshot]

I picked this guy up last week. I’m loving how stupid cheap some cards are now. $4 for photoshoot worn chunky, stitchy patch? Yes please. Does gold jersey, gold patch, gold foil count as color match

Great looking card - those gold Kings jerseys were awesome.

Welcome! One of my favorite PC's on the net!

[SacKingsCards]

My IT collection got…better…today.

Unremarkable story of how I got the cards: the top six cards were part of a lot a seller posted for sale a couple days ago in BST on the BO card market forums. He ended up being local to me according to his profile, so I offered a local deal to save him on shipping and fees. We met up and he ended up being a collector moving out of the country and trying to move all his cards. In that vein, he showed me his last two IT cards (NT RPA and immaculate insignias) since I had told him the ITs were really what I wanted from his lot, and added them for a very reasonable price. Super pumped that the Immaculate is a game worn rookie too.

[ChrisP57]

I've been wanting to pick up some early 90's MJ base cards as they bring back so many memories as a kid and a lot of them look great. I started with these two

[Deadshot]

That IT Insignia is INSANE!

[AbraCalabro]

Thanks dude, love this card, it's instantly one of my favorites, amazing holofoil on here too as you already know from the LBJ you have!

This is one of the gripes I have with Panini patches. I was looking at some Flawless patches today and even some of the lower numbered ones /5-/15 are regular foil. Like what's up with that? How are you giving me a patch /5 in a $5,000 box and skimping on the holofoil?

The patch game in this thread is next level recently

DUDE! Same here. Shit, unless it's a color match, the base color foils tend to suck ass. Even the gold / silver foils which are...whatever, kinda' cool.........there's NO HOLOFOIL, just an example of Panini getting cheap / lazy. They instead reserve the holofoils for the 1/1 most times and sometimes you'll get them on the gold stuff, wtf? Why -- what were they thinking with the green and red foils lol?

[AbraCalabro]

Here is my latest pick up. I was on a german cardshow yesterday.

For my Duncan PC

1000081371 by Aron Gerstmann, auf Flickr

Oh my!

I picked this guy up last week. I’m loving how stupid cheap some cards are now. $4 for photoshoot worn chunky, stitchy patch? Yes please. Does gold jersey, gold patch, gold foil count as color match

Hell yeah!!!

My IT collection got…better…today.

Unremarkable story of how I got the cards: the top six cards were part of a lot a seller posted for sale a couple days ago in BST on here. He ended up being local to me according to his profile, so I offered a local deal to save him on shipping and fees. We met up and he ended up being a collector moving out of the country and trying to move all his cards. In that vein, he showed me his last two IT cards (NT RPA and immaculate insignias) since I had told him the ITs were really what I wanted from his lot, and added them for a very reasonable price. Super pumped that the Immaculate is a game worn rookie too.

I've been wanting to pick up some early 90's MJ base cards as they bring back so many memories as a kid and a lot of them look great. I started with these two

I'll probably be following suit with some low end / high grade MJ stuff, but in BGS only.

[Depitydog]

Also, an update to another steal from back in March. Picked up an Iverson 2004/05 Upper Deck Flight Team Rainbow for $25. PSA pop count in 20 years since it released stood at (2) both PSA 7. Got my reveal the other day. Very happy to have the highest graded. I usually don’t care about grading, but older sets that have quality issues, I can make an exception.

so the Garnett is cool but that Iverson is Purdy! love that set (honestly a bit more than the numbered version..)

[Depitydog]

Final Mailday of the month. Love picking up Lebron Rookie when I can

super fun one to pick up. i dont think a ton of people think of these which to me makes em even better... these are the ones that people will in 10 years and ask "what the hell is that?"

[Depitydog]

Been wanting a Game Used Cousy forever since he doesn't have very much out there and finally got one!

fun set! i thought about collecting it way back when i pulled a Wilt, but like an idiot, i sold it instead. on one hand, im happy its stayed relatively cheap but on the other hand i want it to be recognized because it looks great.

[Depitydog]

Here is my latest pick up. I was on a german cardshow yesterday.

For my Duncan PC

Spurs patches can be incredibly boring or beautiful... no in between. good job grabbing one of the second option!

[Depitydog]

I know this set has always been one of the more popular inserts, but it took a while for it to grow on me and actually pick one up.
There are more subdued lenticular inserts, and then there's this. Reminds me of a literal bike reflector, or like it was lined with 3m visibility strips.

An interesting detail from the designer herself is that they didn't want to add stock underneath the lenticular layer to make it rigid/thicker, otherwise they'd be detectable in packs.
Which I get, but it makes you wonder why they had no issue doing it with previous lenticular cards inserted in standard thickness sets, like 96-97 Fleer Thrill Seekers, for example.
Maybe they just learned their lesson by the time Thunder was released. Anyway, as a result of using only a lenticular layer, they're fully bendable.

sometimes it doesn't quite hit till ya roll it up and take a snort!

[Depitydog]

Another HOF Basketball Game Used Pickup

ugh!!! why does it seem like everybody can find a Sam Jones Patch except ME!!!!!!!

super jealous OBVs... great card

[SacKingsCards]

Thanks dude, love this card, it's instantly one of my favorites, amazing holofoil on here too as you already know from the LBJ you have!

This is one of the gripes I have with Panini patches. I was looking at some Flawless patches today and even some of the lower numbered ones /5-/15 are regular foil. Like what's up with that? How are you giving me a patch /5 in a $5,000 box and skimping on the holofoil?

The patch game in this thread is next level recently

DUDE! Same here. Shit, unless it's a color match, the base color foils tend to suck ass. Even the gold / silver foils which are...whatever, kinda' cool.........there's NO HOLOFOIL, just an example of Panini getting cheap / lazy. They instead reserve the holofoils for the 1/1 most times and sometimes you'll get them on the gold stuff, wtf? Why -- what were they thinking with the green and red foils lol?

Yeah I mean I guess I get it on some level: you have to make the “better” stuff stand out? But that didn’t seem to be an issue in those 2000s releases where patch sets like your KG had lots of holofoil and multi color/break patches even numbered /75.

[SacKingsCards]

That IT Insignia is INSANE!

Thanks man! It was by far the most appealing card to me in the lot being game worn, rookie, and /2. I didn’t realize some of those early jumbo patches in immaculate were numbered so low. Might instantly be one of my favorite cards.