Random Wax: 1990-1991 SkyBox Basketball (3 Packs)

90-91 SkyBox:  I don't want to go over the top with how good Tom Chambers was, but he was really good.  He was very athletic for a big man and fun to watch.  He topped 20 points per game five times in his career (2X over 25) and topped out at just over 8 rebounds per game one season for Phoenix.

Vlade Divac will forever be remembered as the guy who was traded for Kobe Bryant but he was a solid big man who averaged 11 points per game and 8 rebounds per game over his career.  All three of these would move into the front office (Vlade and Dumars) or coach (Doc) after their playing years.

Sean Elliott was an underrated shooter and embraced the three-point shot, shooting 37% for his career.

Great photos as always on the backs of the cards.  Mugsy looks like some player's kid who the team is letting play with a ball.

Some little man love.  I misspoke.  While Bogues was 5-3, Webb was 5-7, which is NBA short, but Michael Adams was 5-10.  While not tall in the NBA that isn't short.  He didn't look 5-10.  Just saying.

Cliff Robinson played all three positions in the front court during his career.  He played 18 seasons winning 6th Man of the Year once and was named to the All-Defensive team twice.  As always, these cards are great and the memories so much fun.

BREAKDOWN:
45 – Total Cards
2 – Checklist

Random Wax: 1990-1991 SkyBox Basketball (3 Packs)

90-91 SkyBox:  Patrick Ewing is a player I never really cared for but there's no denying how good he was.

These are such fun cards.  They were like nothing we'd seen before, and it seemed basketball was a great place to use the design.  Good pull as always including one of my favorite big men of all-time, Jack Sikma.  Kevin McHale had one of the uglier looking games of all-time but man he was great.

More big man love including my #2 favorite all-time player, Buck Williams.  Love the photo and graphics on Willis' card.

Ewing and his signature smile.  Kelly Tripucka always had a strong hair game.  Laimbeer fishing?  Who knew?  The photos for these backs are a big part of why this set is so good.

Johnny Moore had career averages of 7.4 assists and 2 steals per game.  Five different seasons he averaged 9 or more assists per game.  His high was 10 assists per game in the 1984-1985 season.  He also averaged 15 assists over 6 playoff games in 1983. 

This set is so much fun.  The memories hit hard for me as I'm such a fan of so many of these players.  We'll end it with a talented group of scorers who all did it in different ways.  Hornacek and Hawkins were great shooters.  Dantley was great at scoring at the rim, getting to the free throw line and had a good mid range shot.  Drexler had it all going for him.  Clyde Drexler is another player who averaged 2.0 steals per game for his career.

BREAKDOWN:
45 – Total Cards
1 – Checklist

Mail Day from The Diamond King

Thanks to Kevin over at The Diamond King blog for some great cards.  He showed these off here originally on his blog and when I commented on how much I liked them he reached out.  I'm excited he did as I like all these cards.  I've only scanned in a portion of the cards he sent but I do want to show off some of what he sent.

I'm a big fan of his SkyBox set and I love these team checklist cards. I think with time my admiration has only grown.  

It's awesome seeing these old classic logos.  That Nuggets' logo is such a classic design.  This Warriors design is one I like too and the Mavs were definitely solid.

And who doesn't miss the Supersonics logo?   It's also easy to forget the Wizards were the Bullets originally.  Love these cards.

I'm a fan of helmet cards so these were right up my alley.  They are from a 1995 Pacific set but really I can't find any information or details.

  Each team has two cards but they share the same card number.  So it looks like one is a variation.

The backs have some decent facts about the early years of the franchise and this one also talks about the Ram moving to St. Louis.  Did that work out?  The local fans here are not happy, Super Bowl victory, or not.

Like anything of this age we get to see some cool old school logos.  Both of these are really good though I don't have any issues with the Broncos' new logo.  Really fun mail day and I'm very happy Kevin made the effort.  Thanks!

Love Bucco Bruce!

Collectibles Show Finds Part I - 1990-1991 SkyBox Basketball Series II

The Larry Bird show!

Want to show off some of the cards I picked up last month at the card show.  For $5 I picked up a box of 1990-1991 Skybox series two basketball cards.  A nice looking set I've always liked but the lack of subsets is a little disappointing.  But to their defense that wasn't the big thing at that time.  There were 36 packs with 15 cards per pack for a total of 540 cards.  It was great fun opening all those packs and the price was right. 

The backs of these cards lacked many stats which is also somewhat of a negative.  Still there is something I like about the fronts and loved going down memory lane.