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Thursday, December 12, 2019

Year: 2002-03

Set: Topps Xpectations - Xcitement (Rate)

“ This is just horrible! All the diagonal text is bad, the front logos are bad, the background is bad. It looks like he's wearing a practice uniform too! And why did they compare his college stats to Payton's pro stats?! Only his blocks stat is nice. No wonder the guy wasn't drafted AND I've never heard of him. ” -spazmatastic

“ I always say that I wish Topps would be more inventive. Maybe I shouldn't wish that. Topps trying to being inventive is UG....LY. From the horizonal writing to the color scheme to the duplicate photo. If they had simply left the writing horizontal it would be a decent card but that killed it for me. ” -davidhandberry

“ Never heard of these nor ever seen any til' now. Looks very bland and fond of the letter x like Upper Deck. ” -baseballcardstoreca

“ Junior Harrington...made a big splash for a short time, then got traded and disappeared from the league. I loved this set when it was new, not so much now...but I still want to complete it some day. I need to work on the sn portion of the set more. ” -Billy Kingsley

“ Branding looks like the basketball court markings. Very odd and a bit too plain. Back would be OK if text were straight not at a weird angle. ” -captkirk42

“ I unapologetically like this card. As cluttered as it was, I miss this era of Topps cards. ” -mkaz80

“ Xcrappy Xbackground ” -NJDevils

“ Terrible. Same pic front & back. Text on back difficult to read. ” -cjjt

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Billy Kingsley

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Thursday, December 12, 2019 12:09 AM

That's a Summer League photo and uniform. Primarity first and second year players, occasionally see a veteran trying to work his way back into the league. Every year several undrafted players earn an NBA contract due to their Summer League performance, som even go on to have successful careers.

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Billy Kingsley

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Thursday, December 12, 2019 12:14 AM

The comparison of stats is the whole concept of the set...it's called Xpectations. It compared the rookies to veterans who played the same position and basically gave them advice on who to try and be like.

The color scheme is Nuggets team colors. Their normal road uniforms at that time were dark blue with tan and dark red/maroon lettering. The bronze third of the card signifies it is a base card. A different shade of bronze was used for the parallel, and silver was used for the level 2 parallel, which were all SN. EDIT: I just realized this IS the parallel. The two bronzes used are very close, even in hand. The card stock also differed- these parallels are thicker than base and fell one per most packs- the packs with the Xtra Xcitement (the silver, #d to 99) or a relic did not contain one.

The veteran players got a real background while the rookies got entirely computer generated.

Edited on: Dec 12, 2019 - 12:17AM
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VERY slow trading due to health problems. Not transferrable so safe to trade with, just moving is painful and can't always access the cards.

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New Collection Website: Cardboard History Gallery (Still under construction)

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