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03-27-2005, 12:49 AM #1
Lebron and Donruss??????
i was at my local card store and admiring donruss/playoff/leaf football cards and i was wondering why they don't make basketball cards. i have always liked their products but was angry that they didn't make basketball cards.
i was amazed and disappointed when the owner happended to mention a rumor that if donruss signed an exclusive contract with lebron (like how he only signs for them) then they would've started making basketball cards. damn upper deck and their monopoly over basketball cards. they've got everybody. kobe, kg, mj, lebron, erving, bird, magic. u name it they own it.
it would've of been great if someone actually could compete with upper deck. considering right now only fleer and topps are the only competitors. i swear if fleer didn't sign barkley and wade this year they would of been squeezed out of basketball. on the other hand shaq and duncan are single handingly keeping topps afloat. if they each signed any less i swear no one would bother busting topps either.
any ways that's my 2 cents...Last edited by atomant989; 03-27-2005 at 04:15 AM.
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03-27-2005, 01:31 AM #2
I didn't know Donruss made football cards. Then again, I haven't collected football since 1995, so what would I know? :D As for Leaf, all I want to know is if they ever signed Ryan Leaf to a deal. ;)
Seriously, you are right about Upper Deck. They have completely taken over the basketball card industry. It's funny, because their name and start actually came from baseball. But they've had MJ from the get-go, they started the game-used trend, they've been innovative with things like die-cuts and PowerDeck, and they have the high-end SP product which rich people like, lol.
IMO, though, Fleer really has the greatest basketball tradition, and they also have most of the best card designs (Upper Deck's designs are mostly static and geometric; not into them). As for Topps, they have been into cards seemingly forever, but they were out of the basketball picture for a decade (1982-1992).
It's weird how there are just three licensed NBA card manufacturers, but college basketball has two (SAGE and Press Pass; before that, Classic and Scoreboard).
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03-27-2005, 05:18 AM #3
Originally Posted by JammingJames23
What's really weird is that the NBA has three licensed card manufacturers, and those three put out 35 sets a year between them. :icon_surp
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03-27-2005, 01:37 PM #4
LOL, yeah, that too! I remember 2000-01 flooded the market with 40 sets, IIRC. Fleer had so many that season that it took me forever to collect all of Lamar Odom's base that year (they signed him to an exclusive deal along with Vince Carter, so he was in all their sets).
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