Random Wax: 1991-1992 Hoops Basketball

 91-92 Hoops Basketball: We'll kick of this pack with The Admiral...and yes Dennis Rodman, but David Robinson is why I chose this card.  He was so good. No great!  And fun to watch.  And he was in the Navy.  Didn't start his career until age 24.  And one of those guys everyone, except his opponents, liked.  And yes Rodman was good too...

Plenty of really good players in this pack.  All three of these guys were key players on their teams.  Maybe not the #1 or #2 guys but key to the success they had.

Some All-Star game, insert and coach love here.  All good cards.  Lenny Wilkins a Hall of Fame player and an excellent coach.  He won a title coaching the 78-79 SuperSonics.

Love All-Star cards and those with in game or actual jersey photos taking them to another level.  Great job here with a team photo though it is actually the back of the Chris Ford card shown off earlier.  A photo like this deserves to be on the front of its own card.  I was able to name all the players except one...Hersey Hawkins.  My bad as he is a player I've always liked and he does have a distinctive nose.

Believe it or not I bought a box of this for $5 at a card show in 2015.  Yeah.  I mean really.  $5!  YEAH!  My post on the box isn't anything to write home about but it can be seen here.

A fun back of a card.  I'm sure few who saw the back of this card or even saw him play his rookie season thought he'd have the Hall of Fame career he did.  He also won a championship late in his career with Miami.  Nice pack and lots of fun!

BREAKDOWN:

15 – Total Cards

2 – Coach

1 – All-Star

1 – Inside Stuff

1 – League Leaders

1991-1992 Hoops Basketball

91-92 Hoops: We'll break out one of the packs I purchased on eBay last year.  I like this set.  The design is overly great but the set as a whole is fun.  The memories alone are worth it but there are also plenty of inserts though unless you are opening an entire box you may not find many.

Pretty solid pull in this pack with plenty of good big men including Vlade Divac and Brad Daugherty.  Daughtery is an owner in NASCAR as well as an analyst now.  Elliott was a smooth scorer for the Spurs.

Great coaches.

This guy was soooo good on defense.  You may not have looked for a bucket from him but he could anchor your defense like few others ever have.

More good bigs.  Smits is the more well known than the others as he starred for the Pacers on those really good 90s teams.  Donaldson was a big guy who shot for a high percentage every year while Schintzius just had great hair.  More than enough reason to be shown off here.  Love old basketball packs and this one is no different.

BREAKDOWN:
 15 – Total Cards
4 – Coach
1 – Checklist

 

Collectibles Show Finds Part III - 1991-1992 Hoops Basketball Series II

By far my favorite box of cards I picked up at the show were the 1991-1992 Hoops basketball.  Again for $5 I received 36 packs of 15 cards each for a total of 540.  Nice design and great subsets.  Supreme Court cards were stars that might not normally be found in a series two set.  There were art cards for each team which I really liked as well as draft pick cards, all-time leader cards and cards detailing the Finals series between Chicago and Los Angeles.  My favorite by far though is the USA Basketball subset.  I had recently read, and reviewed, Jack McCullum's Dream Team book so this was great timing.  All of the 1992 Dream Team and coaches were in the set.  There were also players from past Olympic teams who were currently in the NBA.  Again a great box and loads of fun.