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Michael has achieved Super Collector status for having the best Mike Dunleavy collection in existence. He currently owns 654 different cards! Thirty-eight 1/1's are included in his collection. No doubt one of the most complete player collections on SCF!

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Collection Totals
Grand Total: 654/820 (79.8%)
1/1s: 38
Autos: 30/39 (76.9%)
Game Used: 172/205 (83.9%)
Rookie Cards: 39/39 (100%)


Favorite Cards

1. 2007-08 Exquisite Collection NBA All-Access Triple Logoman O'Neal/Dunleavy/Tinsley (/1)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/gatorboymike/Cards/Dunleavy/2007/032.jpg
This is the greatest Dunleavy card to date, and his only Exquisite card. When I heard it was going to be released, I immediately started saving money and went on a strict instant noodles diet to be able to get it. All the pasta paid off!


2. 2006-07 UD Black Quad Jerseys Gold Yao/Dunleavy/Nene/Stoudemire (/5)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/gatorboymike/Cards/Dunleavy/2006/048.jpg
When people talk about the greatest rookie classes of all-time, they always say the same three: 1984, 1996 and 2003. This should indicate that 2002 wasn't too shabby either. Yao and Amare are HOF shoe-ins, but I probably would have replaced Nene with Drew Gooden or Caron Butler.


3. 2004-05 Flair Lettermen (/8)
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This was the first high-end Dunleavy card I ever got. At the time, I didn't care who he was, I only wanted it in the first place because it was a letterman. But then I realized I had gotten both this one and a Dunleavy 1/1 without really thinking about it, and I decided to collect him.


4. 2005-06 SP Game Used Authentic Patches Triple Davis/Richardson/Dunleavy (/3)
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This was the first high-end Dunleavy card I ever got AFTER I decided to collect him. It's the rarest of four tiers: triple jersey (/25), triple jersey gold (/15), triple patch (/10) and triple patch gold (/3). I have all four versions today, but ironically, this was the first version I got.


5. 2007-08 SP Game Used Authentic Patches Triple Redick/Smith/Dunleavy (/25)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/gatorboymike/Cards/Dunleavy/2007/044.jpg
One of the most colorful patch cards I've ever seen, and definitely one of my best ones. There's a total of ten color breaks and nine colors (if you don't count redundant ones) on here. This was a pretty hard card to get, as Duke fans are annoyingly tenacious competition.


6. 2005-06 Finest Superfractors White (/1)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/gatorboymike/Cards/Dunleavy/2005/028.jpg
As much as I might think Topps has gone overboard with parallel sets, they are fun to collect. 05-06 Finest has to be the prime example. Even if you count all four colors of printing plates as one parallel, Dunleavy has 19 different parallels in this product, and 9 of them are 1/1s.


7. 2003-04 SP Signature Edition Marquee Marks Dunleavy Sr./Dunleavy Jr. (/100)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/gatorboymike/Cards/Dunleavy/2003/088.jpg
You know the card manufacturers love it when they can do father-son pairings like this. Just wait for the Michael Jordan/Marcus Jordan ones. Dunleavy's dad was a scrub player, is a pretty lousy coach and a downright awful executive, but handwriting is one department where he has his son beat.


8. 2002-03 UD Glass RC (/250)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/gatorboymike/Cards/Dunleavy/2002/106.jpg
This is one of Dunleavy's best rookie cards, and his only glass one. Who doesn't love see-through cards? Yeah, you know you love 'em.


9. 2008-09 Topps T-51 Murad Mini Framed Silk (/25)
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I've seen cards made of acetate, metal, wood, felt, suede and leather, but never silk before. It's too bad this had to come at the end of Topps' production of basketball cards, they are the highlight of the product. They even have little windows in the frame so you can touch the silk.


10. 2002-03 Stadium Club Beckett.com Samples
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This parallel set of Stadium Club was distributed in Beckett Basketball #149, one card per issue. To get this particular card, you would have had to buy 321 copies of that magazine. It's not especially valuable, but it is especially scarce.



Congratulations on becoming the fourth Basketball Super Collector!

That collection belongs here on the 1/1s alone, but the quantity/quality of other items is also impressive at nearly 3/4 the total with loads of AU/GU included. Easily the best Dunleavy collection, and one of the best player collections anywhere.

Nice Collection!

Do you have a wantlist? so i can keep my eyes open for some Dunleavy and avery cards.

Man, Nice collection!

Another amazing player collection! Congrats on the honor!

nice stuff

Nice stuff there, I wasn't aware there was someone with this extensive of a Dunleavy collection

I actually used to have that exact Triple Patch w/ Baron and J-Rich, perhaps you bought it from me!

AWESOME PC!! Love the Logoman!

Awesome collection Mike! I thought the Avery Johnson collection was impressive - this one is even more so IMO! Congrats!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/gatorboymike/Cards/Dunleavy/2005/049.jpg
I would honestly kill for that card...I swear....

Appreciate the comments everyone. This collection has been the focus of my efforts for the past two years. Even I'm surprised at how much I've been able to build it up.

oshmeehan: Wow, that's ironic. Did you sell it on eBay about a year and a half ago? That's where I got it.

theael: If you have about $120 to spare, you can get one of the other two of those from R&B21. They have #3/3.

Appreciate the comments everyone. This collection has been the focus of my efforts for the past two years. Even I'm surprised at how much I've been able to build it up.

oshmeehan: Wow, that's ironic. Did you sell it on eBay about a year and a half ago? That's where I got it.

theael: If you have about $120 to spare, you can get one of the other two of those from R&B21. They have #3/3.

Yep, haha was just gonna say it was probably 1 1/2 years or so ago that I sold it on ebay

Congrats on a very impressive collection!!!

Beautiful! I love how you started collecting him. When a player's cards just gravitate toward it's like fate. Lol

Congrats Mike, great collection! 31 1/1 is CRAZY!!

Congrats!....very nice well rounded collection

Nice collection!

wow great collection!!!!

Do you include cards of Mike Dunleavy in his Duke uniform in your collection, or just the NBA teams? Regards, Leo

wow great collection! nice set!

Impressive super-collection!

Mate i love your collection, i've looked at it a fair few times now and was just reading the comments and i swear i left one before but obviously not :twitch: Anyway love what you've collected so far, keep it up! I hope to join you soon in the HOF in the next few months with my Daniels collection. I also have a question for you about this card
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/gatorboymike/Cards/Dunleavy/2007/070.jpg

Have you ever come accross a 2nd one of these as im after one.
Thanks for sharing your sensational collection :thumb:

Mate i love your collection, i've looked at it a fair few times now and was just reading the comments and i swear i left one before but obviously not :twitch: Anyway love what you've collected so far, keep it up! I hope to join you soon in the HOF in the next few months with my Daniels collection. I also have a question for you about this card
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/gatorboymike/Cards/Dunleavy/2007/070.jpg

Have you ever come accross a 2nd one of these as im after one.
Thanks for sharing your sensational collection :thumb:

Thanks, that's nice of you to say. As for that card, there are lots of the jersey version around, but I've never seen another of the patch version. I think that product wasn't very rewarding for its price and so relatively few boxes of it were opened.

gatorboymike has added...

5 1/1's, 3 autographs, 5 game used and 53 total cards! He now owns an astonishing 77.8% of Dunleavy's cards.

His top 10 favorite cards are now on display.

Great new additions, love the 2005-06 Finest Superfractors White 1/1

awesome Dunleavy PC!

Better scans now up.

hey would you know if he does ttms?

amazing stuff....sweet logoman

hey would you know if he does ttms?

I don't know. Never asked him for one.

Amazing collection! Do you have a list of what you need/have of Mike??

For the most part he's a really nice guy in person. And for the above question about TTM's...right now no as the Pacers don't allow players to sign TTM, but I know Mike did with the Warriors. He'll also sign IP for sure.

Collection status numbers have been updated.

geez that is high quality all the way and i love the little captions after each one, a nice read

congrats