2001-2002 Upper Deck Basketball Series 1

Greetings!

Hope everyone is doing well.  Ol' Jafronius got married 20 years ago today.  Lots of ups and downs, but The Wifey and I are still together.  If all goes as planned we should be dining at a fine steakhouse in the area this evening (20 years ago my last meal as a single guy included SPAM).  But now, let us feast on a pack released the year of the wedding:

I wasn't buying Upper Deck at the time of it's release (Hoops and Topps packs were cheaper), but I had no issues grabbing as many packs of this when they starting appearing in the old Target $1.49 clearance box.  8 cards per pack, let's see what I got...

#112 - Allan Houston

#120 - Grant Hill

Pack starts off with 2 big-time guys at the turn of the century.  It was too bad Grant suffered from too many injuries during his career (he only played 4 games with Orlando his first year there).

#44 - Jerry Stackhouse

#68 - Darius Miles

Big fan of Stackhouse...the Pistons logo, not so much.

Want a checklist?  Go here.

#83 - Jason Williams

#45 - Corliss Williamson

There were 450 cards in the set, split between 2 Series.  Tony Parker and Pau Gasol were the big rookies.  Here in Chicago, our post-Jordan hopes lied with rookies Eddy Curry and Tyson Chandler.  Yeah, you know how that went.

#176 - Courtney Alexander

#SC8 - Latrell Sprewell (Slam Center)  

The Slam Center insert came 1 in 12 packs, so that's cool.

Here are the backs, because "I do":

Anyway, that's the pack.  This is the first of back-to-back anniversary posts.  The next one should be my anniversary post here at APTBNL!  Happy anniversary to my Beloved, and thanks for reading!