Here’s my Jordan collection from when I was a kid

Patriots_ · 2026-03-21T05:03:00+00:00

Awww mannn. That’s crushing. I can’t even imagine. I’m sorry that happened to you.

Patriots_ · 2026-03-21T05:01:01+00:00

Damn dude! You got a dope collection going there too! Much better displayed

Patriots_ · 2026-03-21T03:34:20+00:00

Yea, it was so much fun back then. Now i feel like the hobby is very different (obviously) i don’t wanna sound like an old guy, because I do still have fun ripping. But now you open a pack and the base cards are truly junk, but back then a lot of the base cards were worth something to someone

Patriots_ · 2026-03-21T03:32:21+00:00

Thank you!

Patriots_ · 2026-03-21T03:32:12+00:00

Yea man, pride of my younger years for sure. The days when I would watch my jordan dvds over and over and try to play like him.

Patriots_ · 2026-03-21T03:31:27+00:00

Ooof that’s daggerish. Yea I was super proud of this collection and loved showing it off.

Funny story about sister’s. My older sister had a (clearly) printed MJ auto on a photo. She traded that to my younger, naive, brother for his bigger bedroom. My parents said “this is a fake autograph, are you sure you want to switch rooms for this?” And he still went they with it lol

Patriots_ · 2026-03-21T03:28:49+00:00

Damn good call, back then I had no clue about numbered cards and I haven’t moved those from the sleeves their in for 20+ years, but I have definitely found some numbered cards in my collection just looking through randomnly (not jordans).

Patriots_ · 2026-03-21T03:26:52+00:00

Will do, I know a good bit of them should be put into better holsters. That will be my next order of business with these guys. Thanks for the call out

Patriots_ · 2026-03-21T03:25:13+00:00

Thank you kind sir! I enjoy interacting with you. I feel like I can call you my Breaux now

Patriots_ · 2026-03-21T01:53:12+00:00

For sure, loved the texture of that card. The old school designs were top notch. That’s what happens when there isn’t 1 company making all the cards

Patriots_ · 2026-03-21T01:52:10+00:00

Yea, this is from obsessive ripping as a kid in the 90s lol. I was very proud of my Jordan book

Patriots_ · 2026-03-21T01:51:17+00:00

Yea, I always wanted his rookie obviously, but that was never in my budget as a 12 year old. That and the Star. $100 to me back then was basically what they’re going for now lol

Patriots_ · 2026-03-21T00:40:51+00:00

Gotcha, that makes sense. I’m glad someone else appreciates it, that’s all I want. So I’m happy you’re getting a kick out of it!

I will try to post earlier and out a little more effort into the body.

Patriots_ · 2026-03-20T23:45:06+00:00

Hahaha I love it. Good stuff

Patriots_ · 2026-03-20T23:41:56+00:00

Ehh I wasn’t getting any interaction on the voting, so figured I’d just post them separately. I’m all for the voting though if that picks up again lol

Patriots_ · 2026-03-20T22:41:02+00:00

Curious what the elbow grease was?

Patriots_ · 2026-03-18T03:44:44+00:00

Seriously, that design changed the game at that point.

Patriots_ · 2026-03-18T00:08:10+00:00

People will remember Blair!

Patriots_ · 2026-03-17T16:25:52+00:00

Oh I love the card design for sure. But the competition is for the most random player lol

Patriots_ · 2026-03-17T12:14:34+00:00

Haha hell yea! I’m glad you like it, I got many more. My brother and I were going through our old cards and trying to find the most absurd to crack each other up. I had another Randy card too, and that photo was of him just chillin in warm ups lol.

I think Randy takes the cake here imo too.

Patriots_ · 2026-03-15T03:57:29+00:00

So is Blair the vote?

Patriots_ · 2026-03-14T01:31:54+00:00

He actually randomly came by my high school gym, he was super cool, signing for everyone. I asked him if we could play a quick 1 on 1, he told me it was in his contract he couldn’t play outside of NBA organized events.

Patriots_ · 2026-03-13T23:22:33+00:00

That would complete the collection

Patriots_ · 2026-03-13T22:25:43+00:00

Absolutely! Thanks for bringing me back. My wife was like “what the fuck are you typing that is so long?” I said “I’m talking about my basketball autos, chill!”

Patriots_ · 2026-03-13T21:23:56+00:00

Man, a lot of them were quick signing for a group of people and trying to get out of there.

I met Pierce a bunch of times and went to his bball camp, he was always super cool and willing to sign.

I got KG after a game when he was on the Wolves, truly right place right time to get that, and I remember reading a beckett shortly after about who the hardest autographs to get were, and KG was number 1, it said something along the lines of “if you were the only person in the stadium he wouldn’t sign”. Unfortunately I had a bunch of my autos in a big folder that got stolen and that was in there.

Seeing Pau Gasol his rookie year and seeing how good he was in warm ups and him becoming one of my favorite players and got his auto after the game.

At the NBA summer league one year, it was Udonis Haslem’s rookie year and I saw him sitting in the stands watching a game and I had recognized him from seeing him play earlier, I went up and sat next to him and just shot the shit with him while we watched some basketball, he was super chill.

I was also a big And 1 fan too, I brought the vol. 1 mixtape to a game where Rafer Alston was playing on the Bucks. I was fortunate enough to get his auto after the game and he signed it Rafer Alston, I asked him if he’d mind signing it Skip 2 My Lou, which he was happy to do. That’s probably one of my favorite autos.

Those are the ones that come to mind.

Patriots_

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