After scoring nearly half of his team's entire point total in Wednesday night's playoff win over Indiana, there isn't much doubt LeBron James is still at the top of his game at age 33. He opened by scoring Cleveland's first 16 points and finished with 46 of the Cavs' 100 to even the playoff series at a game apiece. While James came of age in the bygone era of Upper … [Read more...]
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LeBron’s First Cards as Cav Returnee to Debut in Cleveland
Panini America went to work quickly after LeBron James opted to return to the Cavaliers and now the company is touting the first 2014 cards of LeBron as part of a 2014 National Sports Collectors Convention giveaway…but you’ll have to have good speed—and some luck—to get them. Three LeBron cards are part of a Tools of the Trade Update which will include game-worn … [Read more...]
Pete Maravich Basketball Cards Still Resonate
After creating a lot of publicity for basketball for his college wizardry at LSU and setting many scoring records, Pete Maravich entered the NBA as the third pick in the 1970 NBA Draft. With his floppy socks, amazing passing skills and seemingly impossible shot-making ability, Maravich was the guy every kid growing up in the late 1960’s wanted to be. Pete … [Read more...]
Tony Parker Cards: Undervalued?
Few players have been as quick as Tony Parker, or won as high a percentage of games, or been able to score inside so well considering his height, or been able to dominate the NBA after learning his basketball skills overseas. Parker's excellence has once again played a huge role in putting the Spurs within a game of another NBA title. Collectors haven't always … [Read more...]
Chris Paul Rookie Cards Getting Long Term Boost With Trade to L.A?
by Juan Martinez I knew what Chris Paul looked like as a Clipper years before it actually happened. It was a scenario that I allowed myself to dream up every year; I would pick up the latest game in the NBA 2K franchise and create a Los Angeles Clippers team that wasn’t a total piece of garbage. Prior to Vinny Del Negro taking over as head coach, I would fire … [Read more...]
Lockout Could Lock Down NBA Rookie Card Crop
If the NBA is reaching "nuclear winter", as commissioner David Stern so dramatically put it, the fallout will reach the trading card industry. No deal between owners and players means no officially licensed NBA cards dated 2011-12. It could mean this year's rookie crop won't have official rookie cards until 2012-13 and it puts a hole in the hearts of collectors who … [Read more...]
California Card Shop Rolls On
Upper Deck had just been born. Score was still around. Topps was still putting gum in its wax packs (and they really were made of wax). 1989 seems like ancient history now, but probably like yesterday for Matt Mossette. The owner of Mossette's Sports Cards in Fresno launched his business more than 21 years ago and he's still going strong, outlasting … [Read more...]
