Happy Birthday - Kobe Bufkin

 

Kobe was born on this day in 2003, making him 23 today.

NBA Debut - October 29th, 2023 (Hawks)

Years Active - 

• 2023-2025 (Hawks)
• 2026 (Lakers)
• 2026-current (Pelicans)

Cards on TCDB - 2825 cards (2026), 2778 cards (2025), 1649 cards (2024)

Cards I have - 40 cards (2026), 25 cards (2025), 15 cards (2024)

PC Rank - #62 (#131 overall)

TCDB Rank - #1

Where they came from -

• F&G Sportscards (18 cards)
• Sluggos (13 cards)
• Card Show-Elkhart (3 cards)
• Fred Sawyer (2 cards)
• Hollister's (1 card)
• Sportlots (1 card)
• Tom Nielson (1 card)
• Too Many Verlanders (1 card)

Happy Birthday Kobe!

New show in the area

I hit a local card show that just started. There was a show in the neighboring town but they ended up pushing out the sports cards dealers and it's now a Pokemon, Toys, Comics, Ect show. Which is great for those people who collect that stuff because it's a huge show for them but it does nothing for me. So a guy who ran a fairly big one a couple of times a year, started a new one that is sports cards only. The LCS I sort for was going to be there so I hit it up. They weren't allowing customers in early but I snuck in under his name. I sat and chatted awhile, said hi to a bunch of dealers and customers that I knew from when we set up then hit out and shopped. I was pretty much just looking for Michigan peeps as the Sox are kind of crappy right now so I'm just not feeling it for them.

I did a pretty good job as there was only 1 card that I bought that I already have. The sad thing is Dennis does too and I'm pretty sure I sent it to him so it'll go in John's box. I hate to keep checking TCDB for everything I buy so I guess. I pretty much hit $1 boxes (I paid less than $1) and looked at some stuff on the tables. I ended up buying from 3 different dealers.

Let's get to it. We'll start with the basketball pickups.

I picked up these 3 of Bufkin in the dollar boxes. I actually have a decent sized collection of him considering he's mostly been a G League player. These 3 give me 28 cards of him.

I picked up this Hardaway jr and Robinson in the same boxes. The Topps Chrome Cosmo is unlicensed but is a cool looking card and is numbered to /149. It gives me 127 cards of Tim jr. 

The Prizm of Duncan is the White parallel which is numbered to /175 and is my 51st of him.

I'll start the football with the non PC (yet) players. You'll see a couple of these Gold Ice, I paid a little more for those but they are just a cool colored card on Michigan cards. That is my 4th card of Underwood but definitely the coolest looking one. It's also my 4th card of Keene who is no longer with the program.

I'll do the PC guys in alphabetical order like a did basketball.

I grabbed this Disco parallel of Barner for my 6th card of him.

3 more of Nico who had a good year until he got hurt in the Playoffs. These 3 give me 103.

I managed to find another Corum as well. It's shiny but it's a regular insert. This is my 47th card of Blake.

1 more of Colson who I've been steadily picking up recently. This Silver gives me 10 now.

Donovan has bounced between a couple of practice squads, it would be nice if he could land somewhere where he could get some playing time but I don't think that will happen. This is my 17th card of him.

I now have 6 cards of Mason but these are the 1st 2 in pro uniforms. Michigan uniforms look better.

Also my first pro uniform Grant out of 5 cards but it's a very colorful one at that.

This disco parallel gets me up to double digits of Kris at 10 cards.

These Will Johnson cards are boosting his PC, I've already matched cards this year purchased with the same amount that I purchased last year. These 2 give me 11 cards, all in Michigan uniforms.

This guy was making a name for himself towards the end of the year and in the playoffs so I'm sure he'll have plenty more cards coming. These 3 double the PC to 6 cards. I bought the Prizm from the same guy I bought the gold ice cards so I paid a little more for it.

3 more for the JJ PC. Really hoping he stays healthy next year. These 3 put me at 41 cards for the Ohio killer.

A couple of colored parallels. The gold one is a Portrait Studio which are numbered to /100. Also shows is the Blue Hyper. These 2 give me 19 cards of Mazi.

2 more colored parallels for Wilson which give me 37 cards.

There's the other gold ice card I mentioned. Finishing off the cheaper purchases with a legend. This card gives me 102 of Woodson.

The last stop I made was at a dealer that I'm very familiar with. He's a Michigan guy so we talk Michigan all the time when we were setting up and he always gives me great deals. I went up to his table and stood at the showcase where I had eyeballed a couple of autos I was thinking about. He asked what I was looking at it, I told him these 3 autos but I don't think I have enough on me for all 3. He said we'll see what we can do. They totaled $100 on his price tag so I figured I'd be putting one back as I had already spent $48 and only went to the show with a crisp $100 bill. He said, how about $50, I went perfect, that's pretty much what I have.

My first autos of all 3 and all 3 are in Michigan uniforms. The top 2 are Refractors so all 3 are numbered to /499. I've been trying to get some autos of all my PC's, this purchased definitely helped.

It was easier to drop $98 at a show when I won a speaker at a raffle at work that I sold to another guy for $200 at Christmas. I don't think the wife was extremely happy with it but she won't say anything about it because she knows I don't drop money on cards a lot like I was when I was doing shows.

That catches me up on incoming stuff that I had already saved but I got one more post until I'm fully caught up as Fred from work gave me a few more cards. I'm going to get them scanned and logged today so I'll have that post ready. I typed all the previous last week which I think is going to be my process, type out the posts on the weekend and post throughout the week. Most weeks I don't get anything so it won't be like it has been this week.

Happy Birthday - Kobe Bufkin

Kobe was born on this day in 2003, making him 22 today.

NBA Debut - October 29th, 2023 (Hawks)

Years Active - 

• 2023-current (Hawks)

Cards on TCDB - 2778 cards (2025), 1649 cards (2024)

Cards I have - 25 cards (2025), 15 cards (2024)

PC Rank - #67 (#299 overall)

TCDB Rank - #5

Where they came from -

• F&G Sportscards (17 cards)
• Sluggos (3 cards)
• Fred Sawyer (2 cards)
• Hollister's (1 card)
• Tom Nielson (1 card)
• Too Many Verlanders (1 card)

Happy Birthday Kobe!

Happy Birthday - Kobe Bufkin

Kobe was born on this day in 2023, making him 23 today.

NBA Debut - October 29th, 2023 (Hawks)

Years Active - 

• 2023-current (Hawks)

Cards on TCDB - 1649 cards (2024)

Cards I have - 15 cards (2024)

PC Rank - #75 (#632 overall)

TCDB Rank - #2

Where they came from -

• F&G Sportscards (11 cards)
• Sluggos (3 cards)
• Hollister's (1 card)

Happy Birthday Kobe!

Fort Wayne Pickups

 We did the Fort Wayne show last month. I did pick up a few things.

Kevin bought a box of cards from a dealer so I grabbed a few for myself. The top 3 are my non player collection White Sox.

I did find one player collection in the black gold Robert.

Hollister's set up at Fort Wayne and I've been trying to hit his table whenever we set up at the same show. He has a Michigan box and I flip through it and grab cheap Michigan autos. I try to grab guys I don't have autos of. I only paid $10 for all 3 and the Kwity Paye is numbered to /10. Not too bad of a purchase I'd say.

One guy had his cards in teams so I stopped to flip through the Sox cards and found this PK. It was numbered to /99 and I don't run into too many Konerko's that I don't have so I paid $5 for it. What I didn't realize was that it was a rip card. What I also didn't realize is that it was already ripped. Oh well, it's still one I didn't have.

Slacking

Since I've been slacking on my posts, I'm going to combine a couple of pickups from sorting because I've done it the last couple of weeks. Plus, I have to get through some posts to show you a surprise card that I got in the mail last week.

We're going with a lots of photos, a little words kind of post.

We'll start off with this random vintage collection card that I found sorting. Not that Rickey Henderson is random but he is a list player and I did do a couple of small boxes of putting list players together.

This card puts the 1982 Topps set at 92.6% complete. I only need 59 cards to finish it.

2 more list players and 2 more PC's.

One last tier 3 player. This isn't a list players but I did find it sorting other stuff.

Next up is some team cards.

I got a decent stack of Sox cards but I'm only showing a couple of scans. These players are mostly guys I have over 50 cards of, plus Crochet who is on the team currently and I like him and an auto that the LCS owner gave me when I walked in.

I also got some Bowman color Sox to add.

I like Colas as well and I threw in the blue Benintendi.

Since we're on the Sox, we'll go to Tier 2 as most of them are current or former Sox players.

I picked up these 3, 2 Eloys and a Moncada. The Moncada is the red parallel.

Next up, Tier 2 Michigan

A couple of former Wolverine baseball players.

Lots of football up there, including my first Jalen Harrell and 5 more of the HOFer Woodson.

I also got lots of basketball.

Lots of great pickups the last couple of weeks while sorting. I also crossed the 1,000 cards added to the collection so far this year.