The Grady Chronicles: Select

Every Grady box comes with a lot of variety. Multiple sports, products, etc.

Today I tackle one of my favorite finds of the box, Select Basketball.

Around here you never find basketball cards on the shelves, so I have to get lucky to find them in other ways.

Especially when it comes to products like Select.

Derrick Rose silver and Knick colors lol. I don't know the name of that other parallel without looking it up and I am lazy today so it is whatever I say it is.

A few more of those parallels.

Blue parallels of some NBA stars

 

And we finish it up with a Luka. This was a fun surprise.

We are coming down to the final parts of this series. Stay tuned for the rest!

Random Cardboard:2019 Goodwin Champions Luka Doncic

CARDBOARD REVIEW:2020-2021 Donruss Clearly Basketball (NICE BOX BREAK!)

A few years ago, collectors-especially those of us from the 90's-made it very CLEAR when Panini brought back acetate cards they were on board and wanted more.

Which is why Panini went full force and made a few products CLEARLY full of acetate.

Today's box break was one of those. Let's take a look at some Donruss Clearly basketball.

In every box of 2020-2021 Donruss Clearly basketball comes with 4 packs of 5 cards each. Each box is $170 roughly. Seems cheap for these times. Boxes come with 3 parallels and 1 insert, no guarantees on autographs.

BASE:

The base set is a clear version of the Donruss design. Pretty simple, but pretty cool.

100 cards makes up the base set.

50 veterans

And 50 Rated rookies make up the base set.

PARALLELS:

The following parallels make up Clearly Authentic, Gold, Purple, Holo Mosaic, Blue /99, Red /49, Green /25, Holo Silver /10, Holo Gold /5, and Holo Platinum 1/1.

Tobias Harris is a Purple

Bradley Beal Gold

INSERTS:

Usually I don't get too excited about inserts anymore, but I nailed the inserts in this break.

Zero Gravity pull, couldn't have asked for a better insert pull out of the 10 card insert set.

My House! Red parallel as well /49 of one of the young greats in the league in Luka. 10 cards in this set.

HITS

Hey look, I pulled an autograph!!

 

Autographs don't appear to fall one-per-box, so I am guessing one in three or maybe one in two boxes.

OVERALL THOUGHTS:

I really enjoyed this break as I am one of those passionate about my acetate cards. Would be a fun set build I think.

As for the value of this break, that came from my inserts. The inserts in the product are worth more than you think they would be. I am guessing it's because its harder to pull hits and hard to land to pull inserts as well as they only fall one per but I got lucky with two.

Coffee Break:2020-2021 NBA Hoops Fat Pack

*not much sleep last night, lots of tossing and turning despite the cool sleeping temperatures. Guess I will need to hook up the coffee IV and pretend there is caffeine in my coffee*

I apologize I haven't posted in a few days. I am still working through where I want to do all of my blogging when all is said and done. I have three blogs, but, only one blog can survive and get my total focus.

For now it's been this blog, but in the end, who knows. I am up in the air on this decision still and any guidance would be appreciated.

In the meantime, enjoy another coffee break brought to you by NBA Hoops.

*takes a sip, begins to rip*

In each 2020-2021 NBA Hoops Fat pack there are 30 cards. I opened this pack up a long time ago so I am not sure what the going point was on these, but now I see they are going for about $15.

Summary: There are 270 cards in the base set with 200 veterans and 70 rookies.

There are plenty of parallel options for Hoops including, Blue, Hyper Blue, Neon Green, Purple, Purple Explosion, Purple Winter, Red Backs, Teal Explosion, Winter, Yellow, Silver #199, Green /99, Hyper Red /99, Green Explosion /89, Red /75, Teal /70, Blue Explosion /59, Artist Proof /25, Hyper Green /25, Orange /25, Orange Explosion /25, Red Explosion /15, Artist Proof Gold /10, Hyper Gold /10,  and Artist Proof Black 1/1.

Inserts are aplenty with close to 22 different ones, unless I miscounted. That is a ton!! Some of those also have parallels and numbered parallels. The Slam inserts were very popular and still are.

The hits in Hoops are a good mix of veteran and rookie content.

Let's see how my break went,

*takes a sip before closing*

Not a bad break, pulled a Slam insert, LeBron and a Knicks parallel. It was very weak again on the rookie card front but I have no luck in pulling good basketball rookies in the little bit of basketball I have broken.

I hope everyone has a great day.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*