HOBBY HISTORY
Basketball's Junk Wax Era
Topps ran basketball cards for thirteen straight years, walked away for four, and came back into a boom that printed itself straight into a half-billion-dollar bankruptcy.
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A Rookie Class for the Ages (1996-97)
Iverson went first. Kobe fell to 13. Ben Wallace didn't get drafted at all — and five of them ended up in the Hall of Fame anyway.
READ MORE →The hobby runs on half-remembered stories. These aren't those — every piece gets checked before it goes up, sources at the bottom.