Conference school::sports_memorabilia

612.0. "93-94 Skybox Premium Basketball" by SEND::TANCILL (Sponsered by nobody) Tue Dec 07 1993 15:16

    
    Skybox Premium is out, series 1, 191 regular cards in the series 1
    set, plus a slew of inserts.  The cards are nice looking (imo),
    UV coated on the thin side, much the same consistency as the
    football premium.
    
    Rookies include pretty much same ones as series 1 of other
    issues: Bradley, Cheaney, Walters, Johnson, Lynch, Wright.
    
    I got just about what the odds on the pack say for inserts, which
    for a 36 pack box works out that you should get 15 inserts.  I got
    16 in one, 12 in another and 19 in a third.  I've been hearing
    other people getting exactly 15: 1 All Rookie team, 1 Shaq talk,
    1 of either christie or jackson last year's DP, 3 of this
    year's DPs, 3 of the Center Stage (silver sparkly names at top),
    and 6 of the Showdown series SS cards.  Overall I like it better than
    the Stadium.  There is also a remdemption card for this year's
    head of the class card (odds 1:360 or 2 per case).  I didn't get lucky,
    will be a tuff one to get, if you see it cheap at a show or somehwere
    before Beckett prices it I would grab it (assuming you want one card
    with six players on it).  
    
    Boxes seems to be going from high 40s to $65, packs from $1.50 (shows)
    to $2.50 (stores).
    
    Susbets include:
    
    NBA All-Rookie Team (odds are 1:36)
    AR1 Shaquille O'Neal
    AR2 Alonzo Mourning
    AR3 Christian Laettner
    AR4 Tom Gugliotta
    AR5 Laphonso Ellis
    
    Showdown Series (1:6)
    SS1 Mourning vs. Ewing
    SS2 Ewing vs. O'Neal
    SS3 O'Neal vs. Mourning
    SS4 Olajuwon vs. Mutombo
    SS5 Robinson vs. Olajuwon
    SS6 Robinson vs. Mutombo
    
    Shaq Talk (1:36)
    5 card subset of silver hologram looking shaq cards each with
    a theme, The Dunk, the postup, defense, the block, etc.  Each has
    some quote from Shaq on the back along with commentary.
    
    1992 NBA Draft Picks (1:36)
    DP4/92  Jim Jackson
    DP17/92 Doug Christie
    
    1993 NBA Draft Picks (1:12)
    DP2  Shawn Bradley		DP15 Doug Edwards
    DP6  Calbert Cheaney	DP16 Rex Walters
    DP7  Bobby Hurley		DP18 Luther Wright
    DP8  Vin Baker		DP23 Ervin Johnson
    DP12 George Lynch
    
    Center Stage (1:12)
    CS1 Michael Jordan
    CS2 Shaquille O'Neal
    CS3 Charles Barkley 
    CS4 John Starks
    CS5 Larry Johnson
    CS6 Hakeem Olajuwon
    CS7 Kenny Anderson
    CS8 Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf
    CS9 Cliff Robertson