1969 NBAP Members Basketball Card Set and Checklist

1969 NBAP Members Specs

Year: 1969

Title: 1969 NBAP Members

Size: 2 3/4″ x 4 1/2″

Number in Set: 20 (21 if you include the NBA Players Association Logo as a card in this set)

1969 NBAP Members Overview

The unnumbered circa 1969 NBA Players Association 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 borders with the player’s name and “N.B.A.P. MEMBER” printed on the bottom. The banks are blank. As a players’ association set, they weren’t licensed by the NBA, so logos were airbrushed off.

The cards may have come out a few years later than 1969 because the set includes a Kareem Abdul Jabbar card, and he only changed his name from Lew Alcindor after the 1971 NBA Finals.

1969 NBAP Member Kareem Abdul-Jabbar PSA Authentic – REA

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.

1969 NBAP Members Significant Sales And Examples

PSA has only graded 94 cards from this set, with the majority being “authentic.”

1969 NBAP Member John Havlicek PSA Authentic – Reverse

A handful, seven, were recently submitted by REA for grading and made available in their Fall 2025 auction catalog, where they sold for really strong prices. Their Chet Walker sold for $861, Willis Reed sold for $2,275.50, Earl Monroe sold for $1,722, Oscar Robertson sold for $1,660.50, Jerry West sold for $5,904, Wilt Chamberlain sold for $5,535, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar sold for $12,300.

Here are a few more pricey individual graded card sales from the set:

1969 NBAP Member Bill Russell PSA 1: $4,026 in August 2025
1969 NBAP Member Bill Russell PSA Authentic: $3,480 in December 2024
1969 NBAP Member Wilt Chamberlain PSA Authentic: $3,168 in November 2025
1969 NBAP Member John Havlicek PSA 3: $1,725 in April 2023
1969 NBAP Member Zelmo Beaty PSA Authentic: $1,000 in November 2025

1969 NBAP Members 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.