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Specs
Year: 1969
Title: NBAP Members
Size: 2 3/4″ x 4 1/2″
Number in Set: 20 (21 if you include the NBAP Logo as a card in this set)
Overview
The unnumbered 1969 NBAP Members cards feature a black-and-white photo of the players either in action or posing with a blank background. The fronts of the cards have light blue burders with the player’s name and “N.B.A.P. MEMBER” printed on the bottom. The banks are blank.
Collectors long believed the cards to have been issued on a box of basketball shoes, possibly Converse. But more recently, the following images surfaced of the cards printed on the sides of a box for a basketball by a toy company from the Los Angeles area.
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Key Cards
The cards are all scarce (PSA has only graded a handful of each), but Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Oscar Robertson, Bill Russell, John Havlicek, and Jerry West are the priciest.
Checklist
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Elgin Baylor
Zelmo Beaty
Bob Boozer
Bill Bradley
Wilt Chamberlain
John Havlicek
Don Kojis
Jerry Lucas
Eddie Miles
Earl Monroe
Jeff Mullins
Willis Reed
Oscar Robertson
Bill Russell
Wes Unseld
Dick Van Arsdale
Chet Walker
Jerry West
Lenny Wilkens
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