1990-91 Skybox Basketball Series 2

The inaugural set of Skybox basketball was out of the world different. The set screamed 90s going artsy on the cardboard. It was hottest set at the time with packs selling for $1 when it came out. This is series 2 pack consisting of cards from 301-423 of the set with series 1 cards mixed in.

19 - Kevin McHale - keeping the ball away from the defender in front of artsy graphics on the background. Back of the card got him in his All-Star jersey.

319 - Matt Guokas - coach's reflects the season with motivation team thoughts

224 - Kevin Johnson

222 - Jeff Hornacek - the stripes to Suns colors. On the back of the card I can hear the announcer yell "Starting at guard...."

309 - Don Nelson

92 - John Salley - Spider Salley signing autographs

93 - Isiah Thomas - member of The Bad Boys Pistons

378 - T.R. Dunn - I never heard of him before

171 - Sam Mitchell

199 - Nick Anderson - laying it up. On the back the card he will have nightmares on shooting free throws at the finals

375 - Alex English - in a jersey than isn't a Nugget. This is so wrong

37 - B.J. Armstrong

50 - Brad Daugherty - still running NASCAR team. Named Ricky Stenhouse as his driver for next season.

50 - Rickey Green

158 - Jay Humphries

1990-1991 Skybox Basketball Series II

This pack was a freebie from Captain Canuck of the Waxaholic blog as part of a trade. I know I've opened a bunch of Series I but this may very well be my first pack of Series II...let's get rippin':

#269 Xavier McDaniel

I won my first ever participation in fantasy sports and I have the X-man to thank. My 6th grade math teacher had the bright idea that if we all took part in a fantasy basketball league we could get lots of practice calculating averages and adding up things. We'll after consulting my Sporting News stats, I drafted Xavier [and his 21.3 points per game], Tom Chambers, and Scottie Pippen. The project was abandoned after about two months but for those two glorious months I was king!


In this pack I got two logo/checklists and two coaches for the same team...interesting.

#345 New York Knicks Checklist
#318 Stu Jackson



#335 Detroit Pistons Checklist
#308 Chuck Daly



#233 Clyde Drexler

This is my favorite card of the pack and one of the best I've seen from this set.


The commons:

The one that jumps out at me here is the Bo Kimble rookie card. During his senior year of college he averaged 35.3 points per game but only ended up playing 109 games in the pros for the Clippers and Knicks.

#195 Kenny Walker
#35 Kelly Tripucka
#388 Michael Williams
#123 LaSalle Thompson
#359 Bo Kimble
#107 Eric Floyd
#150 Glen Rice
#278 Darrell Griffith
#277 Theodore Edwards