My Recent Sports Card Pickups-2007-08 SP Authentic Basketball Hobby Box

With the NBA season kicking off I figured I would pick up a good, solid basketball card hobby box. My choice? The 2007-08 Upper Deck SP Authentic Hobby box pictured below. Why? Two words: Kevin Durant. The Oklahoma City Thunder are a good young team with some good players and Durant leads the way. Durant should have a huge year and I hope it drives this SP Authentic box up. This box of 07-08 SP Authentic would really be doing well if Portland Trailblazer Greg Oden had played well in the NBA. The 2007 number one draft pick has been injury plagued and has done nothing so far in his young career.


As always, any hobby box that I purchase, I never open. I just keep it in the shipping box and put it away.



It used to be tempting to want to just tear into the packs. But I have bad luck with opening packs so I just leave it factory sealed. Although I did get lucky back in 2006.

I purchased a box of 2005-06 Upper Deck SPX from Blowout Cards and I pulled a Chris Paul Winning Materials card numbered to 50. I ended up selling it on eBay for $125.00. So, I have had SOME luck.

But I have had some real stinkers too. For example, I purchased a case of Fleer Greats of The Game back in 2007. I was debating on leaving the case factory sealed.

But the lure of having a chance to pull a Chris Paul, Deron Williams, Danny Granger, Andrew Bynum or other good young players from the 2005 Draft was too much for me. I just had to bust open the case.

The results? The best card that pulled from that case was a Rookie AUTO of Jason Maxiell!
And that was it! Now, Maxiell is a good young player for the Detroit Pistons but he's no Chris Paul or Andrew Bynum. Yeah, I did get a few autographs from players from the past. No Larry Bird or Magic Johnson of course.

Am I in the majority or minority for feeling this way? Do any of you sports card collectors out there feel the same way that I do? When you buy a hobby box, do you start ripping open the packs or do you just keep it factory sealed?

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2003-04 Upper Deck Triple Dimensions Hobby Box

I know that there are other 2003-04 NBA basketball card sets that are more valuable. But for my money the 2003-04 Upper Deck Triple Dimensions set is a nice, lower end option to get some rookie cards from one of the greatest NBA Draft classes.

Of course I'm talking about the 2003 NBA Draft that featured LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade.

I can remember all the hype back in 2003 about some young high school kid from Ohio that was going to be the next big NBA star and I was skeptical. Remember when Harold Miner was supposed to be the next Michael Jordan? NOT!

But that high school kid from Ohio turned out to be LeBron James and he has turned out pretty good so far..lol! And LeBron James rookie cards are a solid investment, obviously.

In closing, I want to mention that I picked up three of these 2003-04 Triple Dimension boxes at a good price back in June 2009. I paid $48.00 plus shipping per box from Atlanta Sports Cards. They have some good deals over there. I have ordered from them a few times and they are very reliable and they ship your product in well packaged boxes. I just had to give them a free plug because of their professional service.


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2005-06 Topps Chrome Basketball Hobby Box

2005-06 Topps Chrome basketball is a very nice product and it's loaded with some potentially great rookie cards. The 2005 NBA Draft produced some of today's NBA stars in the making.

Guys like Chris Paul, Danny Granger, Andrew Bynum, Deron Williams, David Lee, Charlie Villanueva, Nate Robinson and Jarrett Jack to name a few.

Interestingly enough, the top two picks have struggled to live up to their potential so far. I'm talking about the 2005 number one pick Andrew Bogut of the Milwaukee Bucks and the number two pick Marvin Williams of the Atlanta Hawks.

But the other guys make the 2005-06 Topps Chrome a winner. Especailly Chris Paul and Danny Granger. Granger is lighting it up for the Indiana Pacers.

I have four factory sealed hobby boxes of this product and I'm thinking about getting a few more before they sky rocket in price. I wish I would have done the same thing back in 1996-97 with the Topps Chrome product. That set is loaded with rookie cards of Kobe Bryant, Ray Allen, Allen Iverson and Jermaine O'Neal.

2009 Topps Chrome Football Mini Boxes

I went to ShopKo the other day and they had a few mini boxes of 2009 Topps Chrome football. So I picked them up.

Topps Chrome football is always a big seller because of all the parallels that are in the set. And some nice rookie cards don't hurt either. This year's Topps Chrome football features the rookie cards of Mark Sanchez, Matthew Stafford, Percy Harvin, Knowshon Moreno, Darrius Heyward-Bey, Johnny Knox, Josh Freeman and Michael Crabtree.

As always, it all depends on how well the 2009 NFL rookie class does that will make these boxes valuable or not in the future. Josh Freeman was just promoted to starting quarterback by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers earlier this week so we will see if he does well or flops.

Overall, the 2009 Topps Chrome product is a winner and the cards look great. Nice job Topps!