Here are some detailed photos of the lot. Tried not to make them annoyingly large, hopefully I didn't overcorrect and make them annoyingly small. Probably should've gone chronologically in some capacity but I kinda just went in the order I process them. I know most look at a lot of low value inserts, rc, and numbered and think "meh, just quantity over quality" but I think that adage is inherently flawed. These are cards. Isn't what they look like what makes them high quality rather than their value or even scarcity?
Anyway, player by player look with thoughts here and there:
Gerald Wallace
The first three images are the rcs in the lot organized by manufacturer.
- UD and Fleer love the white designs and Topps really embraced the Wizards blue on multiple releases with MJ's return.
- Topps designs have the best variety and don't feel repetitive.
- Simultaneously I appreciate the unique card designs like the Game Film and Authentix that incorporate different elements to the cards.
Francisco Garcia
Some more vet base I didn't include, but not a very extensive addition to the Cisco PC, though I do like the Flagship/Chrome and Bowman/Chrome RCs together.
I didn't realize til now how much I like that Chrome has in game photos of rookies, as with Gerald Wallace. If Optic did that for rookies vs. Donruss, I really think that would elevate the product. I wonder when that started because I know in 98 with JWill and Peja flagship and chrome had the same photos.
Kevin Martin
Only Rcs here I believe (I'm devolving)
- Was this the last year Pristine base was chromium? The next year, which was above (Garcia) was paper. Not sure if they still had refractors or what not
- Feels like UD really stepped up their game with designs. Much more variety compared to just a few years earlier with Wallace. I'm a nerd, but I wonder if that was bc LeBron and UD stepping things up all around in 03-04
- Not sure I've seen or noticed this before, but parallels like the Luxury Box and and the gold bazooka are thicker than their base counterparts.
Hedo Turkoglu
Not sure what it is, but I like a lot of Hedo's photoshoot photos on his rookies. Lots of action shots and posed ones are funny to me.
Mike Bibby
- My third copy of the Premium Emerald for some reason lol
- That Photo Effex card is awful
- Pretty cool bc I have the Christie from the same Gold Medallion and Bowman Gold sets
- Bibby is my next player focus coming up next, and I'm excited for it because I have a good chunk of Bibbys
Peja Stojakovic
Not a lot of Pejas and no RCs, but I like the draft class with Nash and the Peja/Vlade at the bottom pair nicely with the Christie /299 I have. Anyone know the difference between the Vlade and Peja Finites here? Different numbering but look exactly the same to me.
Jason Williams
I must be the king (no pun intended) of low end Jason Williams inserts. I imagine his flashiness got him included in a lot of those insert sets too. Love the double feature because of the team collecting and featuring multiple players from the same team.
CWebb
Speaking of high inclusion, as the best player on the team, I'm sure Webber was also in a lot of those late 90s and early 00s low end sets. Great photos on nearly all of them.
That'll do it. Hope you enjoyed "going through" the lot as much as I did.
So the 99 ultimate has 20 MJs?? That's pretty wild, I feel like UD got way too crazy with the MJs in the late 90s and maybe even through the 2000s. So diluting of those cards. But MJ cards are a can of worms I've never opened because of its enormity. I've never seen the Trilogy /10s in hand. I feel like those early and mid 00s UD rainbow spectrums (?) /10 are impossible to find. 
