Blog Basketball Group Break: Freebie Packs

2012-13 NBA Hoops Basketball: 7 Freebie Packs

Here is the detailed listing of the pulls from the 7 Freebie Packs of 2012-13 Panini NBA Hoops Basketball for my Group Break from D&A Card World, pack-by-pack as pulled. I did this as a preview for the break, before sign-ups in the hopes that some nice pull would entice people to join the break. Unfortunately since these are retail packs they didn't have any special hits. I think it is possible to pull autos from these packs but difficult since they are retail. Hopefully the boxes in the break will have some inserts at least.

 SAMPLE OF BASE FRONT

There are some cool vets, and possibly some of the Rookies from these packs are now cool vets, but basically "It's all about the Base 'bout the base no autos".

Pack One:
288 Moe Harkless RC 76ers
173 Trevor Booker Wizards
280 Damian Lillard RC Trailblazers
14 Avery Johnson Coach Nets
75 Derrick Rose Bulls

Pack Two:
284 Austin Rivers RC NO Hornets (Pelicans)
107 Scott Skiles Coach Bucks
176 Kevin Seraphin Wizards
157 Dwyane Wade Heat
14 Avery Johnson Coach Nets

Pack Three:
284 Austin Rivers RC NO Hornets (Pelicans)
107 Scott Skiles Coach Bucks
260 Elliot Williams Trailblazers
152 Tracy McGrady Hawks
246 JaJuan Johnson Celtics

Pack Four:
256 Jeremy Pargo Grizzlies
292 Bernard James RC Mavericks
33 Calderon Raptors
160 Joel Anthony Heat
208 Steve Nash Lakers

Pack Five:
248 Cory Joseph Spurs
212 DeMarcus Cousins Kings
180 Stephen Curry Warriors
291 Perry Jones III RC Thunder
8 Deron Williams Nets

Pack Six:
236 Kawhi Leonard Spurs
211 Marcus Thornton Kings
270 Justin Harper Magic
260 Elliot Williams Trailblazers
116 Kevin Love Timberwolves

Pack Seven:
66 Monty Williams Coach NO Hornets (Pelicans)
105 Mike Dunleavy Bucks
164 Dwight Howard Magic
188 Chauncey Billups Clippers
161 Udonis Haslem Heat

SAMPLE OF BASE BACK

PULLS:
7 Packs (5 cards/pack) = 35 Cards Total - 4 Duplicates
Rookies - 6 Cards - 1 Duplicate
Coaches - 5 Cards - 2 Duplicates
21 Teams

Link to video on YouTube.There are still some good teams available Sign-up before they are gone.

Washington Wednesday: Wistia Win Two

Second Listia Auction Win

Recently, about a week ago, I won my second auction at Listia. This one "cost" a bit more from the credits standpoint 100 as opposed just 1 from the last one, but from the shipping $ standpoint was FREE.

I wasn't sure if I already had it or not so I went ahead and got it. You see for many years during the 1980s and early 1990s I would get at least the Topps flagship base team set of the Redskins from my LCS for whatever the going rate was. Of course since they are in Silver Spring, MD (The MD City north of the border to DC) they tend to use the "Hometown Inflation" scale for Skins cards that Blogger Dime Box Nick talked about a week or so ago. OK so sometimes I would pay $5 - $10 for about a dozen hand sorted cards instead of maybe $2 but at the time there was no internet to shop for deals on my Homie Team. Anyway I don't think I ever got all the skins from 1980, maybe I did maybe not I'm not sure as my Football card collection is atrocious it is more disorganized than my Baseball is currently and I am actually improving the Baseball organization some (in part thanks to four MONSTER Boxes I had gotten from my LCS one of the last times I had gone there very early this year. My big goal is to go back to mostly binders, but My unorganized hoard collection is a discussion for some other time some other place)

So here it is my second Listia Auction Win:

 1980 Topps Football 475 Joe Theismann Redskins

(Front and Back)

Then from Ebay more recently (like today Tuesday 18 DEC 2012) I got another of my Homie QBs my main HQB Sonny J. (Other than current QBs RGIII and Kirk Cousins (My "Kirk Cousin"*)) It was $1.78 + FREE Shipping This card is from this year, I prefer Sonny J. cards from his playing years but I love the Classic Skins Arrow Helmet from the '60s. This one is from the 2012 Topps Football: Quarterback Immortals 19 card subset.

 2012 Topps Football: Quarterback Immortals

QI-SJ Sonny Jurgensen Redskins

(Front and Back)

*NO I am not related to Mr. Cousins I just share the same first name so we are cousins in the first name sense.

Bonus Non-Sport Promo Cards

I forget when I got these promo cards but they came as a FREEBIE bonus from some seller I think from sportlots.com but it could have been from Ebay. I'm fairly certain though that my purchase had been some sports cards so why they included some Non-Sport cards I don't know. That is another of my little pet peeves of card sellers the inclusion of a "Bonus" card(s) that are not related to the card you purchased. If I buy some football cards then give me some football cards as a bonus preferably the same team, not baseball or basketball or non-sport. If I order non-sport cards either send cards from these same series, a similar series or something that is non-sport don't send me no baseball or football cards with my TV or general entertainment cards. I think it is better to not include a bonus than to include something totally unrelated.

Now onto the cards I received all of them are TV or Movie related and are made by Inkworks.

The first two are for sets from the TV show Charmed which starred Alyssa Milano, Holly Marie Combs, and Rose McGowan (who replaced Shannon Doherty). I haven't gotten the Charmed sets yet, but I would like to and maybe try to find some of the other promo cards, but not any of the costume cards those are the non-sport version of a jersey card. I have never liked the idea of cutting up memorabilia into little 1" squares to glue onto 2.5" x 3.5" pieces of cardboard.

 2006 Inkworks - P1 Charmed Destiny Promo Card

 2004 Inkworks - CC1 Charmed Connections Promo Card

2004 Inkworks - CC1 Charmed Connections Promo Card Back

This final card is from a family movie The Golden Compass by New Line Cinema. It is for trade or I might sell it for like 2 bucks.

2007 Inkworks - GC-P1 The Golden Compass Promo Card