South Bend Pick Ups

Just a quick post as I've been under the weather for a few days. Head cold kind of symptons but I think I'm on the other side of it. I worked through it and if you know me I don't get much sleep so last night I crashed around 11 pm. I woke up at 7 this morning and chilled in my recliner for an hour before falling asleep again and sleeping until almost noon. I'm sure that helped me heal a little faster since I generally get less than 5 hours sleep on work nights.

I have 2 posts to get to in the next few days, todays and I received a Christmas package. I got it logged in and all today (once I finally got up) so I just have to do the post. I have a show tomorrow so you'll probably get that one on Sunday.

Today's post are just a couple of cards I picked up at the last show we did in South Bend. I got bored towards the end of the show and walked around. I hit a couple of dollar boxes and started pulling a bunch out but then I decided I didn't want to spend that much so I put back everything but a couple cards that I decided were the better cards for me.

I grabbed this Caris LeVert from the guy set up next to us. He's been by us a couple of times in South Bend. He graduated from Purdue so we've talked about that since my son turned down Purdue to go to Purdue/Ft. Wayne. He had a couple of cards I looked at but this was the only I decided that I had to have because as much as I hate having to buy all these color parallels, I really like the looks of them. I paid a buck for it.

I always have to pick up Paul Konerko cards that I don't have so this was a nice find. I wasn't keen on paying $2 but I don't generally ask for a discount when I'm only buying 1 card and this was a fairly new dealer, we've talked before but nothing for very long so I don't know him that well. It was PK that I didn't have so I didn't care about paying $1 more than it's probably worth. When I logged it in, I realized I didn't even the base so there's probably 50 color parallels as well so more to chase I guess. This card is my 760th card of PK.

We're doing a show in Fort Wayne tomorrow so I may get to see my son, he usually tries to stop by since he's living there now.

In my head

I only have 3 more players left in my November pick-ups that are current collections. But wait, there's more! I added 9 more player collections because apparently I didn't have enough. I added them in November when I was still sorting cards for Kevin so I'll show those off 1 at a time as well, then maybe I might make it to December's pick-ups. I do add to those posts when I get new cards so it's not as many posts as you think once I get through the new ones. For example, say I pick-up a card today of a player I collect. When I log them in, I look on my spreadsheet to see if I still have cards to post of that player and I add it to them. So it's not like you'll see that player get posted a bunch of times. It just makes for a longer post when his name comes up.

Take today's post, I have 4 different scans of the player which means since November, I have picked up cards of his 4 different times. Even though all 4 came from 2 places, they were at 2 different times from each place.

This scan of 4 came from Sportlots but I received it just after Christmas and I scanned and logged them just before New Years. That top right is the green variation, which you can see in the logo on the bottom left. The bottom right is the purple variation.

This came from Sportlots as well but I received it back in November which was the first card since I posted his previous so this dated November's posts. This is the dazzle variation.

Same with both of these, they both came from Sluggo. The green prizm on the right was back in November and the Illusions on the left was in December. Both were cheapies so I got them for free.

These 7 cards bump the LeVert collection up and over the 50 card mark at 51 cards. That keeps me in the #2 slot on TCDB with over 30 cards to go and puts him as my 4th highest basketball player collection.

I post enough that I can't help but combine posts but I do like the format of a player per post as it helps me posts pretty often but I don't feel obligated (except birthday posts) so if I decide to take a day or 2 off, I don't feel bad. I do know if I take a lot of time off, I get out of the habit and stop posting so this helps with that. I did have 304 posts last year. The first time I hit over 300 since 2012 and I did multiple posts a day for awhile that year.

Happy Birthday - Caris LeVert

Caris was born on this day in 1994, making him 28 today.

NBA Debut - December 7th, 2016 (Nets)

Years Active - 

• 2016-2020 (Nets)
• 2021 (Pacers)
• 2021 (Cavaliers)

Nets

Pacers

Cards on TCDB - 1,852 cards (up 427 cards from last year)

Cards I have - 44 cards (up 6 cards from last year)

PC Rank - #31 (#59 overall)

TCDB Rank - #2

Where they came from -

• Sportlots (27 cards)
• Ebay (9 cards)
• Hollisters (4 cards)
• Sluggo (3 cards)
• Too Many Verlanders (1 card)

I have 3 relics and 

2 autographs.

I even have 1 with both.

Happy Birthday Caris!

Staying Power

Only a 1 card post today because I just added it to my PC last weekend but it's been longer since I posted his cards than anybody else's. Sluggo pulled it out of some packs he opened, I think it was a blaster. 

He's been our best NBA player for awhile now but we've got some promising younger players that we'll see if they last like he did.

I've said it before that I was shocked he even made it to the NBA, let alone has played as well as he had. Guess that just goes to show you, I don't know crap.

This is my 40th card of Caris. He has my 3rd highest amount of cards as far as basketball PC's go. He's only 3 cards behind Trey Burke but he's got a long way to go until he gets to Tim Hardaway jr as he's less than half way there.

Cold and Icy

Yesterday was about baseball because I want it to be warmer, today I'm being realistic. It's cold, with lots of ice, which also means it's basketball season. I don't really watch NBA, I can't get into it at all. I do try to follow along with Wolverines in the pros, which is one of who we have today.

I picked this up this past weekend at Sluggo's. We are setting up at a card show this coming weekend and we're organizing some NBA stuff and I grabbed 3 cards. This LeVert is one of them. It's the cracked ice parallel and is #'d to /25. It was in our $5 box so I'll just take it off what I earn at the show. It's a cool looking card, better than what my scan shows. It is one of those annoying cards though when he wears one jersey but the card says another other team. Just pick one, I don't care which.

It is my 39th card of Caris.

This Week on MSO

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