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Basketball card collecting or investing sometimes starts at the bottom. The dollar box. The prospects. We scout, we dig, we negotiate, and we dream – we hope we will find the next Giannis, Joker, or Maxey. HoopsandCards.com talks about the 4G’s – players or cards can fall into one of these four categories: Guesses, Goods,…

Like most of us, I woke up to the news of Philly’s not-so-shocking blockbuster deal, moving James Harden and his beard to the Los Angeles Clippers. Here are the basics – the Clippers get James Harden, PJ Tucker, and Filip Petrusev (who?) while the 76ers get Nic Batum, Marcus Morris, Kenyon Martin Jr, Robert Covington,…

Prospecting. Projecting. Forecasting. Like penny stocks for the investor, there are NBA “futures” – players who aren’t well known right now, but they have flashed hints of greatness and have the potential to become impact players. These are the sleeper picks, the fliers, and the fantasy basketball “late round steals,” and their Basketball card markets…

Legacy players. Hall of Famers. Ring Chasers. Perennial All-Stars. Kawhi Leonard. Chris Paul. James Harden. Joel Embiid. Damian Lillard. Amazing players like these “already-greats” will try to add to their resumes and legacies this season. Some of them will see their card values soar if there’s a chance that a championship banner is in sight.…

With so many players, brands, and styles of sports cards, it helps when you have a common language when building your collection. Here at HoopsandCards.com, we’ve invented the “4G” categories to at least attempt to diversify, strategize, and describe which players we might target for a card collector or investor. It’s simple, memorable, attainable, reasonable,…

It didn’t take long for the Celtics to chase down a potential playoff “Dame-killer” in landing Jrue Holiday. Boston paid a hefty price, but make no mistake about this deal – Jrue Holiday is well worth it. As much as I love Milwaukee and the move to get Damian Lillard that shocked the entire Basketball…

Finally, some answers to the huge summer questions in the NBA. The past seven days in the NBA have shifted the NBA playoff landscape ever so slightly, even with the big names trading places. What’s the fallout, the consequences, the “ramifications” of Dame and Jrue’s adventure? I think Milwaukee and Boston are the favorites to…

Yesterday, at our local card show, a lot of dealers had moved basketball cards to the corner. It’s almost September, and that means the NFL takes center stage, and every single table had hits from the usual suspects – Burrow, Lawrence, Hurts, Fields, Herbert, Brady, Pickett, Mahomes and Purdy. They were everywhere. I went from…

#15 – KEVIN DURANT, BROOKLYN NETS – One of the greatest scorers of this generation, Durant has caused – and endured – a tumultuous summer for the Brooklyn franchise. Aside from the trade demands, coaching critiques, and Kyrie craziness, it’s impossible to ignore Durant’s talent and legacy as it continues to be written. Durant 2007…

Well, this blog post was supposed to be up BEFORE the NBA season started… and things have changed by now… but I did want to finish the true first LIST of the top 30 players as we saw it in mid-October of 2022, so here goes as we continue the countdown…. #20 – ZION WILLIAMSON,…