Offered is the basketball collection from the same consignor of all the high grade baseball sets in our recent March 2017 auction. These cards are of the same quality and presentation as the baseball run, totaling 15 sets with (4) from the Bird/Magic RC year of 1980/81 as our consignor was a big Boston Celtics fan, especially Larry Bird. Interestingly, each of these 1980 sets also contain the team posters as an added bonus. The only set missing is the 1975/76 Topps set, which was actually part of a lot in our previous auction. This grouping is perfect for the collector who wants to knock a big basketball set chunk of his want list off with one stroke or the dealer with ready made set break inventory.

THESE ARE FRESH TO THE MARKET HIGH GRADE BASKETBALL CARDS.

As was the case with the baseball sets, our consignor purchased graded cards but "cracked 'em out" to put into the pages, but also put the tag in with the card. One instance was the 1969 Lew Alcindor Rookie Card which had an SGC "flip" in the page which has a SGC NM 7 designation, but came back from PSA hell as a PSA EX-MT 6. Total of 11 cards have been PSA graded, but hundreds more cards are certain third-party grading candidates. The 1970/71 set is particularly high end. Most of the earlier sets have overall grades at the end of the individual card grades, while the later sets are generally NM to NM/MT or better, with a few sets being absolute GEMS with most cards NM/MT to MINT.

Includes: PSA Graded Cards – 1969/70: 2 cards w/#25 Alcindor (PSA EX-MT 6) and #50 Robertson (PSA EX-MT 6). 1970/71: 4 cards w/#13 Riley RC (PSA NM 7), 50 Chamberlain (PSA NM-MT 8), 75 Alcindor (PSA NM-MT 8) and 123 Maravich RC (PSA EX-MT+ 6.5). 1971/72: 1 card, #100 Alcindor (PSA NM 7). 1972/73: 1 card, #195 Erving RC (PSA EX 5). 1980/81: 3 cards, all Bird/Erving/Magic RC (1 PSA NM-MT 8, 1 PSA NM 7 & 1 PSA EX-MT 6).

Ungraded Cards – 1969/70: complete set of 99 cards (DOZENS OF ROOKIES) w/#1 Chamberlain (EX/MT+), 2 Goodrich (NM), 10 Thurmond (NM), 15 Hawkins (NM), 20 Havlicek (NM), 35 Baylor (NM), 40 Cunningham (NM), 43 Bradley (NM), 44 Wilkens (NM), 45 Lucas (NM), 55 Bing (NM), 56 Unseld (NM+), 60 Reed (NM+), 75 Hayes (NM), 80 Monroe (NM/MT), 82 Nelson (NM/MT), 84 Greer (NM), 85 DeBusschere (NM), 90 West (EX/MT), 98 Frazier (EX/MT+) and 99 Checklist (EX/MT, o/c). Grades 20% NM/MT, 45% NM, 30% EX/MT, 5% lesser. 1970/71: complete set of 175 cards w/#1 Kareem/West (NM/MT), 2 West/Kareem (NM), 7 Bradley (NM), 10 Havlicek (NM), 20 Monroe (NM/MT), 24 Checklist (NM+), 46 Lucas (NM+), 65 Baylor (NM), 100 Robertson (NM/MT), 101 Checklist (NM), 107 West AS (NM+), 120 Frazier (NM/MT), 135 DeBusschere (NM+), 137 Murphy (NM), 140 Cunningham (NM/MT), 150 Reed (NM+), 160 West (NM), 171 NBA - West (NM/MT), 173 NBA - Wilt (NM/MT), 174 NBA - Frazier (EX/MT). Grades a ridiculous 50% NM/MT, 35% NM, 15% EX/MT. 1971/72: complete set of 233 cards w/#1 Robertson (NM/MT), 2 Bradley (NM), 10 Baylor (NM), 29 Archibald (NM/MT), 35 Havlicek (NM/MT), 47 Cowens (NM/MT), 50 West (NM), 55 Maravich (NM/MT), 63 Lanier (NM/MT), 65 Frazier (NM/MT), 70 Chamberlain (NM/MT), 81 Lucas (NM/MT), 91 Tomjanovich (NM/MT), 120 Hayes (NM/MT), 152 Brown (NM), 170 Barry (NM), 200 Issel (NM/MT). Grades NM/MT throughout (some MINT) with 20% NM, and a few lesser. 1972/73: complete set of 264 cards (SUPER SHARP SET!) w/#1 Chamberlain (NM), 5 Maravich (NM/MT), 7 Cowens (MINT), 25 Robertson (NM), 32 Jackson RC (NM), 44 Barry (NM), 60 Frazier (NM). 75 West (NM/MT), 100 Abdul-Jabbar (NM/MT), 110 Havlicek (NM), 144 Riley (MINT), 180 Gilmore RC (NM+), 230 Issel (NM/MT) and 255 Erving AS (NM+). Grades 60% NM/MT, 40% NM with a few lesser. 1973/74: complete set of 264 cards (SUPER SHARP SET!) w/#1 Archibald (NM), 20 Havlicek (NM), 50 Jabbar (NM/MT), 70 Robertson (NM/MT), 80 Chamberlain (NM/MT), 100 West (NM/MT), 130 Maravich (MINT), 135 McAdoo RC (MINT), 160 McGinnis (NM/MT), 240 Erving (NM) and 250 Gilmore (NM/MT). Grades 70% NM/MT to MINT with 30% NM. 1974/75: complete set of 264 cards w/#1 Jabbar (EX/MT), 10 Maravich (NM), 39 Walton RC (NM), 100 Havlicek (NM), 196 Gervin RC (NM/MT), 200 Erving (NM), 250 Chamberlain (NM) and 257 Karl RC (NM/MT). Grades mostly NM or better, with 20% lesser. 1976/77: complete set of 144 cards (THE BIG BOY CARDS!) w/#1 Erving (NM/MT), 57 Walton (NM/MT), 60 Maravich (NM/MT), 100 Jabbar (NM+), 101 Malone (EX/MT), 110 Thompson RC (NM/MT) and 143 Free (NM). Grades mostly NM to NM/MT, with 10% lesser. 1977/78 through 1979/80: complete sets of 132 cards. Grades NM to NM/MT. 1980/81: FOUR compete 176 card sets (with posters). The three Bird/Erving/magic rookie cards PSA graded, with the fourth appearing NM, with a light wrinkle. All NM to NM/MT. 1981/82: complete set of 198 cards. Grades NM to NM/MT.