What's the Best Year in the History of Basketball Cards? - Page 4

tjforce · 07-07-2025, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by asujbl

92-93

If you didn’t live I you don’t get the Shaq hype

Trade card. Stadium Club. Ultra. Beam Team

Hell his Classic was the most expensive card on the planet when it came out. You had to have it

It was a wild year to be alive

1992-93 really propelled basketball forward.

Stadium Club and Fleer Ultra were introduced into basketball as premium brands, which paved the way for everything that come after the next few years, most notably the insert craze, which wasn't a very big thing prior to 1992-93.

I'll also say that 1993-94 was a big year as well. On top of the Chris Webber, Penny Hardaway craze, you had the next wave of product releases really ramping up:

-Topps Finest
-Upper Deck S.E.
-Skybox Premium (was cool at the time)
-NBA Jam Session

This year didn't age the best (other than Finest), but it the moment it was something special

hermanotarjeta · 07-07-2025, 05:35 PM

If you want to talk about the year that propelled basketball forward, it wasn’t a card release, even though 1989-90 hoops was huge, it was actually the release of the first basketball Beckett magazine early in 1990.

When people could finally look up their basketball cards in a nationally distributed magazine, the basketball card industry skyrocketed.

07-07-2025, 05:35 PM	#77
hermanotarjeta Member Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 20,206	If you want to talk about the year that propelled basketball forward, it wasn’t a card release, even though 1989-90 hoops was huge, it was actually the release of the first basketball Beckett magazine early in 1990. When people could finally look up their basketball cards in a nationally distributed magazine, the basketball card industry skyrocketed.