NBA Showoff Thread!

[joshmiller0]

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In honor of Carmelo coming back...

[joshmiller0]

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My Knicks shooting shirt collection.

[joshmiller0]

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Shorts from rising stars challenge and shirt from regular season

[Marshall]

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This is pretty cool. It's owned by a friend of mine. A Photomatched Michael Jordan 97-98 Eastern Conference Finals jersey worn in games 1 & 2 vs the Indiana Pacers. Anyone else have some cool MJ pieces to show?

[Marshall]

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Here is the side by side.

[jmeekins33]

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That 1997-98 MJ playoff gamer is awesome. There is drool coming out of my mouth right now.

[mickeymbz]

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That 1997-98 MJ playoff gamer is awesome. There is drool coming out of my mouth right now.

Nice,but bar none Thee greatest piece in the NBA collecting hobby ..period. Maybe even the Naismith HOF included.

[hbrgrate]

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[jmeekins33]

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I'm speechless about that Magic Johnson. I'm been wondering about that jersey for almost my entire life. To see it now.......mind blown.

[mickeymbz]

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Based on he high res pics and videos I've gathered from 79-80 season, I believe this shirt was only worn during the NBA Finals of that year. It was worn in all the road games of that series -games 3,4 and the infamous game 6. Amazingly it was recycled and used again thru-out the 83-84 season including all road playoff games and then worn in the 84 Finals vs Celtics in games 1,2,5 and 1st half of game 7 only. This was the series that Boston Garden had no AC where court temperatures hovered in the mid 90 degree range.

[mickeymbz]

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I'm speechless about that Magic Johnson. I'm been wondering about that jersey for almost my entire life. To see it now.......mind blown.

SI 1980 Finals and 1984 Finals

[jmeekins33]

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Intriguing. I'm curious as to why they ended up re-using a 4 year old jersey. Is there an accurate estimate on how many jerseys players would go through back in those days? Today guys seem like they wear a new jersey every night (or two). I wonder how many game jerseys Magic Johnson has in his collection today, if any.

[xsentrixsupra]

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Intriguing. I'm curious as to why they ended up re-using a 4 year old jersey. Is there an accurate estimate on how many jerseys players would go through back in those days? Today guys seem like they wear a new jersey every night (or two). I wonder how many game jerseys Magic Johnson has in his collection today, if any.

I don't know about way back then or what it's like now. Earlier in Derek Fisher's career and in that mid to late 90s era at least, some of the commons would use the same jersey over again for at least part of the next season. I think though now, with how the hobby is, it is probably down to about a 5% chance anyone, even a common wears the same jesey more than a season.

[mickeymbz]

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Intriguing. I'm curious as to why they ended up re-using a 4 year old jersey. Is there an accurate estimate on how many jerseys players would go through back in those days? Today guys seem like they wear a new jersey every night (or two). I wonder how many game jerseys Magic Johnson has in his collection today, if any.

I'd guess back in 80s era no more than 4 homes 4 roads. the 83/84 season of all the pics I have there are only 2 roads.. The answer as to why Game 6 road rookie reappeared 4 yrs later went to the grave with old trainer Fat Jack Curran. I'd doubt that even Magic himself could answer that question. Don't think these dudes paid much attention to the specifics of what they wore. Fat Jack was the one leaked this shirt into the hobby.

[jmeekins33]

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I'd guess back in 80s era no more than 4 homes 4 roads. the 83/84 season of all the pics I have there are only 2 roads.. The answer as to why Game 6 road rookie reappeared 4 yrs later went to the grave with old trainer Fat Jack Curran. I'd doubt that even Magic himself could answer that question. Don't think these dudes paid much attention to the specifics of what they wore. Fat Jack was the one leaked this shirt into the hobby.

That's an interesting tidbit. I think you're right that most of the players probably didn't know or care what jersey was what. By most reports the league was struggling at that time to gain popularity and stay viable. Very different from how it is today.