Hobby Time w/ DirkNashty

Following up on the guards and wings, I look at 11 bigs players and try to identify who, if any, are on the cusp of a breakout 2023-24 NBA season. Enjoy!

Following up on the guards, I take a look at 17 wing players and try to identify who, if any, are on the cusp of a breakout 2023-24 NBA season. Enjoy!

What makes a breakout in the NBA? What is a breakout? How might we identify one that's coming? I get deep into this for guards and try to identify who is on the precipice of taking that next leap.

John, Nathanael and I got together last week for the first time in a while to catch up. We talked about our teams offseasons, previewed a future episode on identifying breakout players, and just had a great time getting together. Enjoy!

John (@istanbulcards) and Nathanael talk rank Kobe's top rookie cards by aesthetics, spend some time on Victor Wembanyama and pre-rookie cards, and finally take a look at SGA's market compared to the overall basketball market and his draft class-mate Luka Doncic. It was a fun conversation and we hope everyone enjoys it!

Nathanael is back to talk about 90s inserts, what makes them great and we discuss whether or not non-auto, non-paralleled inserts of today could hold up in collector's hearts and minds over time. It was a great discussion and as always was tons of fun. (00:04) Catchup and What's New (12:52) 90s Inserts - What are they, what makes them great? (33:23) Ultra Modern Inserts - What's out there? (56:02)...

John (IG: @IstanbulCards) and I had a wonderful conversation on our personal experiences with soccer and soccer cards, and (surprise) we just happened to do it without ever mentioning Haaland, Mbappe, or Messi. Enjoy and thanks for listening!

We've got a special episode today! Our friend John (@IstanbulCards) had a chat with his friend Will (@Kart_Adami) on a variety of subjects including growing up collecting in New Zealand, some big wins purchasing lots, their collecting origins, and even the potentially untapped markets of Cricket and Rugby cards. Our thanks to Will for lending his time, I know he and John had a great time putti...

Following up on the 4/12/23 Episode looking at Guards, today we're talking about Wings, Forwards and Bigs and comparing their rookie season statistical profiles and comparing them to other players. This is one of my favorite things to do and look at so I hope you enjoy it! (00:00) Intro, Methodology, and Card Price Foundation (04:42) Paolo Banchero (10:36) Jabari Smith Jr. (17:26) Keegan Murray (2...

John and Nathanael stopped by today to talk about our recent sports card activities and look at some data around non-playoff players and their card prices over the last six months. As always, we hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed putting it together!

Nathanael and I had a chat last week about a variety of topics. We hit on a variety of topics and had a good time chatting. Enjoy!

I'm happy to share one of my favorite episodes comparing rookies to their predecessors. Starting with guards I go deep into each 2022-23 NBA Rookie guards statistical profiles and compare to other NBA players rookie seasons. Then at the end I wrap it up with a bit comparing their early card prices. This was a particularly fun episode as I found several comparisons that were nearly spot on, and...

Nathanael, John and I got together with one agenda item in mind: our top cards. It was a really fun discussion and I hope everyone enjoys! Thank you,

Hello! Shorter episode today, have a PSA return I recorded but have been holding and then Nathanael recorded a bit about how far he'd have to go to find a team he wouldn't trade the entire Bulls roster for. I hope everyone enjoys, have a great day!

John and Nathanael cover a wide variety of sports card topics, including: PC Updates including a huge Luka Modric acquisition A few of Nathanael's strategies for buying and selling on eBay John's Sacramento Kings Topps Chrome Refractor collection Ranking the last 10 draft classes Enjoy!

John, Nathanael, and I all had a chance to get together and chat about what we've been up to, the Jokic discourse, who has the most to lose or gain from this year's NBA Playoffs, compared some prices of stars and RCs in Prizm Silver and premium base set /99. It was our first time all together and I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed putting it together!

Today Nathanael and I had an awesome chat about his Through-The-Mail project with some really exciting returns, we talked about the 1961 Fleer set and what makes it so iconic, had a discussion about why SGs seem to be so beloved by the hobby, and wrapped up with some all-star game festivities talk. This was one of my favorite episodes to record, I hope everyone has as good a time listening to it a...

I'm excited to bring to you a conversation with John Bowlus - IstanbulCards on IG to talk about the sports card hobby, collecting overseas, the Sacramento Kings and Dallas Mavericks, the NBA Trade Deadline. We had a great conversation and I hope everyone enjoys hearing his perspective! Thank you for listening!

Today Nathanael and I review some things we’ve been up to, spotlight a PC Card each and compare a few current players to players who played in the 90s. We wrap up with what Nathanael would like to see the Bulls do ahead of this years trade deadline. Hope you enjoy it!

Nathanael and I got to catch up on what's been catching our eyes in the hobby.  Then we spent some time to draft our all-star teams, and at the tail end of it I got a knock at the door and my Luka Green Prizm I sent off to PSA came back, so I got to open that live with Nathanael. Had a lot of fun today, apologies for the audio quality on my end but it was a great conversation thanks for liste...

Today I was joined again by Pat to follow up on our combined 6 entries in the VBA season-end tournament and talk and talk a bit about what's the come. Thanks for listening!

VBA is fun, challenging, rewarding and ... dead. My friend Pat is back with me to commiserate and discuss a bit how we thought about setting up lineups for the final year end tournament. Thanks for listening!

Nathanael and I talk recent card activity, some of our best and worst looking basketball card sets, and end with a round of NBA Stats trivia.  We had a blast recording this episode and I hope everyone enjoys listening!

Excited today to talk with GodsloveDAO, owner of Grape Gaming GG, one of the top teams and GMs in VBA.  We talked about what got us into VBA, what excites us about the future, how we think about setting lineups, and how the game has changed over the first few months.  We had a great time talking and hope you enjoy listening. Thank you!

Today I share a researching fail I had where I ended up just wasting some time trying to track down some pop counts.  Also I spend some time talking through some cards I'm preparing for my first PSA sub.  I talked about what I saw, made an official prediction on the grade, and put it on the podcast so we can laugh at it a few months down the line! You can see these cards at on Instagram...