Badly airbrushed Basketball cards

by Billy Kingsley - 9 cards (Last updated on Dec 17, 2017)

Sometimes, when a player joins a new team, a card set will be released before a photo of the player in the new uniform can be obtained. Most of the time, preferably, there will be a note on the card, or just a second card in the Series 2 release when card companies actually cared. But sometimes...sometimes they would paint on a new jersey. And it's absolutely hideous. The entire 2000 Topps USA set for the men could be on this list, also.

2001-02 Topps Xpectations #41 Ruben Patterson Front

1. 2001-02 Topps Xpectations #41 Ruben Patterson

He was a member of the SuperSonics previously.

2001-02 Stadium Club #72 Jason Kidd Front

2. 2001-02 Stadium Club #72 Jason Kidd

Kidd was a member of the Suns when this photo was taken.

2000-01 Topps Stars #111 DerMarr Johnson Front

3. 2000-01 Topps Stars #111 DerMarr Johnson

All of the rookies had their jerseys painted on. This one is fairly high quality... except for the fact that he didn't wear #2 while with the Hawks!

2001-02 Stadium Club #134 Michael Jordan Front

4. 2001-02 Stadium Club #134 Michael Jordan

Famous Bulls photo

2001-02 Stadium Club #83 Glen Rice Front

5. 2001-02 Stadium Club #83 Glen Rice

Knicks jersey...note that they didn't bother to fix the belt.

2001-02 Stadium Club #82 Stephon Marbury Front

6. 2001-02 Stadium Club #82 Stephon Marbury

Was Nets jersey. Traded for Kidd.

2001-02 Topps Xpectations #91 Stephon Marbury Front

7. 2001-02 Topps Xpectations #91 Stephon Marbury

Another Nets jersey. The Suns did not use the stripe pattern the Nets did.

1999-00 Upper Deck Victory #425 Michael Jordan Front

8. 1999-00 Upper Deck Victory #425 Michael Jordan

Nothing says great action photo like removing everything from a jersey, and the number on Pippen's jersey. Odder still, Pippen was under contract with UD and has a card in the set. The entire subset has this style of censorship but this is the worst.

2005-06 Bazooka - Gold #106 Shareef Abdur-Rahim Front

9. 2005-06 Bazooka - Gold #106 Shareef Abdur-Rahim

Blazers jersey. Note the Blazers marketing in the background, the large number of fans wearing red, and if you look closely, at least one fan is wearing a Blazers t-shirt (to the right of his left elbow)

Comments

Dec 17, 2017 - 12:39PM
fedoratipper

Great list! Those Stadium Club cards are so blatant.

Dec 17, 2017 - 12:45PM
fedoratipper

Here's some from the 2005-06 Bazooka set

http://www.tradingcarddb.com/ViewCard.cfm/sid/3128/cid/764481/2005-06-Bazooka-41-Bobby-Simmons

http://www.tradingcarddb.com/ViewCard.cfm/sid/3128/cid/764484/2005-06-Bazooka-44-Brian-Scalabrine

Dec 17, 2017 - 6:26PM
Billy Kingsley

Those are bad! Neiter appear in my collection yet...if you want to see the worse ever, check out 2000 Topps USA. Terrible! I could literally add every card from the men's team to this list!

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