Basketball via Michigan

 Time to show off the basketball portion of the mailer.

This portion was primarily Raptors, but a couple stragglers for other PCs slipped their way into the envelope. Such as this autograph of the king of the collection's basketball portion - Richard Hamilton. As a nice little oddity, this sage card is out of 610 copies. I usually need to go to an Elite Extra Edition to find a print run for a card like that.

The only other non-Raptor outsider was this Steve Nash bound for the CanCon collection. I'd cringe at the Key Kraze subset title, but there is far more cringeworthy insert set names to come.

Such as 'Air Club for Men'? Or 'Air Force One Five'? Anni-Vince-ary? As I said - cringeworthy. But these are a nice collection of unnumbered inserts.

A few numbered cards. The orange parallel of Bargnani is to 1199, and the team checklist from Donruss is /100. 

One more numbered item - here's Kyle Lowry on a printing plate. The actual item is from 19-20 National Treasures and their Jersey Treasures insert set. Just the cyan portion here!

If you remember his career with the Raptors, using the term Power alongside Rafael Araujo is quite the stretch of the term. That jersey probably saw garbage time minutes.

Ah. Much better. Even if only one of them is a Raptors hit, putting these two together on a card is a perfect card to salute the team during the 00's decade. 

A third straight appearance of a Raptors legend wraps things up. In terms of having their jersey in the rafters, either him or Bosh would make the best case for joining Vince up there. It wouldn't be the #3 he's sporting here though, but the #7 that he'd have to wait for the Bargnani trade to start wearing. Even if Kyle only did the initials autograph, there's still a really nice use of space, and it shows nicely on an acetate issue as well. 

That leaves on the baseball content and the 2/14 football content to go!

There you have it!