At 420 cards over 2 series, this is a Great set. UD really got it right that year, and I'm very happy to have completed it.

This one set is interesting in that I completed it on 12/25/13. For Christmas 2003, I received boxes of both series 1 and 2, and so I completed the set 10 years to the day after I did both boxes. The only 413 card set in the NBA's history.

Last year a member of the Database gave me a factory sealed set of these...he was returning a Random Act of Kindness I had sent him earlier in the year (even using the same box that I mailed some stuff to him in!)

I actually completed this set back in 2009 when it was new...but I forgot to take note of the exact day or which card it was so I went with Regan Smith, the most recent winner from my home state.

Completing this set, which I did on 4/8/14, is a big deal for me. Back in 1996-97 when this set came out I was very, very sick. The many visits to the doctor's office turned up nothing, they never could figure it out. I still have some lingering troubles from it all these years later. (On a plus side, the doctor's office was basically in sight of the local card shop, so most doctor's visits brought me new cards- my Mom has always known if she wants to make me feel better, give me cards). Well, my mom bought a box of Series 1 and every day I was able to make it to school, and make it through the whole day, she gave me a pack out of the box. I ended up 1 card short- card #1. I eventually got that card at a card show in the Dutchess Mall in Fishkill, NY. A friendly dealer broke a set he had for sale at after I inquired if he had any others from that set and told him my story. I wish I knew who he was, to say thank you- I never saw him before or since. With series 2 I never got a box, but I did do quite a few packs and got some more through the mixed boxes I love to purchase. But I was nine cards short. For Christmas 2013 I received an Amazon gift card, and I purchased all nine of the cards I needed through the Database's Amazon partnership. It took me until the first week of April to decide how to use my gift card, and when they arrived, this became my first completed set of 2014. It's a truly great feeling to have this set in it's entirety now. I did miss a few when I was sorting out my collection to prioritize my completed sets for scanning back in December, after all- the set wasn't complete then. I made the decision early to pull a few non-complete but still important sets for scanning, I must have gone past those three cards before I made that decision. With roughly 68,000 cards awaiting scans, I don't really want to go back through them all again to find those missing three, and the one or two others I missed from other completed sets. I'll get to them eventually :)

My third completed set of 2014, I received the last two cards I needed for this set as part of a trade with a fellow Database member on 5/21/14. Note: While I consider the set complete, I do not have all the variations on card #1, and I do not yet know which version I have of the two errors in the Slam Dunk subset. I know I only have one of each, but I did not know there were variations until I started posting to the Database, and they are mixed into my collection. I will find out eventually.

This was actually the first set I completed in 2014. I forgot to enter it into the Database, I actually completed it while the Olympics were still running back in February. It my first completed Olympics set!

I got boxes of all three series, but even though I came up with a bunch of duplicates, I came up one card short on series 2. I got it in a trade with fellow Database member Sportscollector98 on 6/5/14.

Kind of a milestone for me, as this becomes the first contemporary set completed in my NBA renaissance, which began at the start of the 2012-13 season. The last set I completed when it was a current set was 2005-06 Topps, back in 2005, so this one is the first in a long while. My mom and brother got me a box of this to celebrate my one year anniversary of surviving my health ordeal that almost killed me in 2013, but I came up 4 cards short. (I also got a stack of 22 duplicates from the box, frustrating!). I got a retail blaster box, 2 retail jumbo packs and 1 retail regular pack, and just got duplicates. (In fact, usually in the same order). So, the last 4 cards I needed were sourced through the Database's Amazon partnership. The last two arrived on June 16th, just one day after the season ended- but they are still current, as this is still in the 2013-14 issue window. Ironically enough, the last two I needed were OJ Mayo and Vince Carter- oddly coincidental as this card shows Mayo guarding Carter!

I always had a ton of these cards....Back when my brother got me 20 200 count boxes for my birthday in 1996 or 1997, I ended up having a stack of this set about 2 feet high, literally...I have a photograph to prove it, lol. But I came up one card short...this one. I got it via the Database's Amazon partnership, and it arrived in the mail on 6/30/14.