Set completion: 1992-93 Hoops

 I was really enjoying my Set Completion series but like everything else, it's gone by the wayside as my motivation to write or do pretty much anything that's not models has been pretty much nil over the past few months. It took me 9 months to scan the single card needed for this post, for cryin' out loud. I need to have a better balance in what I do, but I know myself well enough to know that likely won't happen...

Set: 1992-93 Hoops

Set size: 490 cards

Began collecting: Sometime in 1996, exact date lost to history

Date completed: February 23rd, 2022

What I've scanned so far: 1992-93 Hoops

Thoughts: This is a great set that I never really think about when I think of great sets...actually, it's one of the very few sets that gets a "perfect" rating from me, meaning it has a full checklist, including coaches, all-star cards, league leaders, team cards and a recap of the previous season. Each team has the player name in color coded text which is one of my favorite design ques in the hobby. I should respect this set more than I do, honestly. With this set's completion, I have completed every Hoops set from 1989-90 through 1995-96, 7 consecutive seasons, which is my longest streak of set completion in any NBA brand. At 490 cards this is the second largest Hoops set in the brand's history and one of the largest sets I've completed.

Favorite memory of the set: I don't really have one...it's been familiar to me my entire time collecting the NBA, but nothing in particular stands out on it. They scan easily so there's that, but that's a pretty weak memory. 

Last card needed: #451 Charles Barkley

Trade with Cards on Cards

Normally I corral all my trades during the month to a month-end trade recap, but this one is too big for that, so it's own post is, dare I make the pun, "in the cards"

Cards on Cards is a blog mostly about the St. Louis Cardinals, of which I have none to trade. He also collects Portland Trail Blazers, and them I have lots of. Well, I did...most of them have now been packaged up to send to him, except the ones clearly labeled on his wantlist page that he already had.

He sent me some Nets, some Eltons, and some cards off my want list. For starters, I'll begin with the new Elton Brand cards...

#488, 489 and 490 in my collection. While the Adrenalyn XL is new, I don't count the game cards as part of my collection. 500 in 2017 is looking very possible!

Now, here are some from my wantlist that came along. I really need to get in gear and post more to my wantlist- I've only typed up to and including 1994-95. I still have the rest of the NBA, all of NASCAR, and all of Non-Sports ahead of me. Like I said recently, it's not hard, it's just time consuming, and I've put more effort into scanning. It is a goal to get more up there though.

 Based on the purple border I think whoever planned this card at Topps didn't know that Loy Vaught is the guy in red...

 This is the card I wrote about in my December trade recap...which, even though I wrote first, is going to get published after this post, so it will make more sense then.

While this card shows the player in the Nets uniform, it's actually a Pacers card. But, most important, it's my first issue from the 2016-17 Panini Stickers set! I need to get my hands on more of these.

He used some baseball cards as padding- but I added them as part of my collection!

There are two more I didn't scan yet as well, both from 2016 Topps Heritage, my first two from the set.

Wondering where the Nets that I mentioned are? They are posted on Nothing But Nets, my team-specific blog :)

See the Nets!

Thanks for a great trade!