2021-22 Wild Card Alumination Basketball Forum

   The woeful lack of information on these Wild Card Alumination cards & their airbrushed pics would lead one to rule #9 or #10 on the Team Name hierarchy list.  However, I'm not clear on what #9 means versus #10:

9. Use team uniform shown on front of card and professional team (draft cards only)

10. Use team uniform shown on front of card

   Does rule #9 imply that the pro team which drafted the player gets listed as the Team Name, despite not being pictured or named as a pro player?  Does it get a dual team listing with the "/" divider?  Is #10 the default ONLY for undrafted players, who would then get their college or high school affiliation?  This set's cards have no team names (pro, college, or otherwise - front or back) & there are no pictures showing them in NBA uniforms.

   A particularly odd example is ABC-68 Scottie Barnes.  His team is currently listed as "Toronto Raptors", the NBA team that drafted him.  However, while he briefly played in college at Florida State, the picture actually shows him in his Montverde Academy high school uniform.  So, should it remain as Toronto according to what rule #9 implies, or should it be Montverde Academy Eagles since that is what's actually pictured?

   It looks like only those players picked in the top 60 (the draft's first two rounds) had their teams assigned as an NBA team, instead of the pictured uniform, by whomever generated the checklist.

This is a rule I always have a problem with and I believe it needs to be modified in some manner. Although, the scenarios vary between licensed, unlicensed; usage of team names, logos, cities, etc.

I think in this scenario, since there is no mention of the professional (NBA) team name or city on the front or back of the card, it should only be the name of the team from the uniform they are wearing (rule #10); which would need to be determined since the product is unlicensed.

Here is a previous Inaccuracy I opened up regarding a 90's set in trying to determine the correct way to list the team [1]. In that case, the player's did have a team name on their uniform (front of card), but the back of the card did state the city for the team that drafted them. However, it did not explicitly state "Drafted by" or the team name, so I questioned which rule applied. The outcome in that scenario was to apply rule #9 with both the HS/college team as well as the professional (drafted) team.

[1] https://www.tcdb.com/InaccuraciesManager.cfm?MODE=VIEW&ID=293948

Rule 9 means if the draft card (college uniforms) also mentions the pro team that drafted them; both go in the Team field.

First it depends on what this set is being marketed as. If it's college players prior to the draft, it gets listed as a "College" set (which it currently is) and gets only college or high school teams in the Team field.  If it's college players after the draft, with only "Drafted by Orlando" type of pro mentioning, that's where #9 comes into play. This was added because of the early/mid 90s Classic sets which had a college uniform on the front, "Drafted By: " on the back, and no logos or team names anywhere else.

Looking at this set, if it's being listed as a "College" one, there should not be any pro teams anywhere in it.