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Welcome BACK to all Basketball Card fanatics, investors, and collectors! Our host Gary emerges from the abyss of the past four weeks to celebrate the return of two of the league’s most exciting young players! Thank you for listening and send us your takes and messages to gary@hoopsandcards.com or @hoopsandcards on Instagram!

Today's episode is Part 2 of Gary's conversation with Chad Guell from Sports Card Strategy Show. They talk about GUESSES - prospects, emerging players, and card-buying strategies for the first month of the NBA season. If you like Jabari Smith or Tyrese Maxey, you'll love this episode!! We are proud to be a part of the NoOffseason.com Sports Card Network! o  Market Movers – “save 20% after a free 1...

Buying and selling Basketball Cards isn't as complicated as brain surgery, but sometimes it helps to hear from a Doctor anyway. We are thrilled to bring on "DR" Chad Guell to talk about buying, flipping, prospecting, and guessing on NBA players during the first month of the season. Today's episode is Part ONE of a 2-Part series where we learn from Chad's experiences, perspectives, and hit list reg...

James Harden traded overnight to the Clippers. Will the Clippers contend for a Title? Will Joel Embiid chase another MVP? Who benefits the most from this blockbuster deal of picks and players? Gary weighs in with today's "instant reaction" episode and some thoughts on the reigning Player of the Week in the Eastern Conference, some dude named Maxey. HoopsandCards.com is your all-inclusive site for...

What a start to the NBA season so far! Dame with 39 in a tremendous win over Philly, Cam Thomas explodes, and Desmond Bane is still Desmond Bane. For Basketball Card buyers, this is an exciting time to learn some new names like Jalen Johnson, Derek Lively III, and maybe even Kelly Oubre Jr. But for many of our listeners, the first week of the NBA simply affirmed the players and stars we've been wa...

It starts today! HoopsandCards is here for your season preview, picks, and card thoughts from Gary for ALL collectors and investors in the NBA! Today's episode addresses our preseason picks for MVP, MIP, NBA Champions, Rookie of the Year, and some other random stuff. You don't want to miss the start of the NBA season and we've got you covered! Warning: this episode may or may not inclu...

Guesses. GOODS. Greats. GOATS. These are the 4G's, and this is your pre-season primer on our HoopsandCards strategy, language, and recommendations for the 2023-24 NBA Season. Host Gary Underwood gives you a look at some of the NBA's "GOOD" players and card values that have a solid chance of becoming great over the course of this NBA Season. We're talking about possible first-time All-Stars, Breako...

Guesses. Goods. Greats. GOATS. These are the 4G's, and this is your pre-season primer on our HoopsandCards strategy, language, and recommendations for the 2023-24 NBA Season. In today's episode, Host Gary Underwood gives you an overview of the GUESS category as we see it, and some players to watch this season as they emerge into impact (good) players this year. The GUESS category includes "wild gu...

Guesses. Goods. Greats. GOATS. These are the 4G's, and this is your pre-seasons primer on our HoopsandCards strategy, language, and recommendations for the 2023-24 NBA Season. Host Gary Underwood gives you an overview of each "G" category as we see it, and some stories and advice around each category. We also bring you updates from the first weekend in the NBA preseason and some teaser-trailer tho...

Today marked the start of the NBA Preseason games, and we are here for you Basketball Card collectors and investors! Gary brings his thoughts on most exciting or most anticipated stories of the Preseason in the NBA with takes on James Harden, Players to Watch this Season, and some buying and selling ideas for the month of October. Shout out to Josh Smith for today's listener question! Send us...

HUGE news in the NBA that should impact the Basketball Card market this week and all season long - DAMIAN LILLARD gets his wish - sort of? Portland, Phoenix, and Milwaukee team up to shake the NBA superstar landscape today, and Gary Underwood from HoopsandCards.com is here for an "INSTANT REAX" episode for card collectors and investors. HoopsandCards.com is thrilled to join the NoOffseas...

Our weekend episode of Hoops and Cards is a catch all of ideas, insights, and stories for the world of Basketball Card Collectors and investors! Gary is back to talk about the "World Cup" of Basketball, some recent buys and regrets, and his approach to negotiating during Buying Season. We are still very high on Shai Gileous-Alexander, as if there was any doubt. Today's episode also c...

You guys are the Best! Gary returns to thank our listeners for support during a crazy summer and doles out some thoughts about the beginning of buying season in the Basketball Card world. We are sending out free cards to the first five listeners who DM us @hoopsandcards on Instagram. Today gets right at some of the current buying opportunities and reasons to be excited about the 23-24 NBA season!

Life happens, even for an NBA Podcaster! In the middle of a series about "five players to watch or invest in during the offseason," our host's wife came down with colon cancer and his Dad was sent to the hospital. Gary, our podcast host, breaks free from a rough few weeks to bring us (finally) some thoughts on Basketball Buying season and two of the best young players in the NBA. Tyr...

NBA followers and fans won't be surprised if the Utah Jazz have (another) very good season. But card collectors and investors somehow still sleep on Utah's super-human baller, Lauri Markkanen. HoopsandCards continues this week's countdown with #3 on our offseason watch list, and here's a hint - He's Finnish. Oh, and he also might be a darkhorse MVP candidate. Those 2017 rookies to watch should inc...

He's not the next Steph Curry. But he is way better than the card market realizes, and has virtually his whole NBA life ahead of him. Today on HoopsandCards, Gary makes the case for Kings' sharpshooter De'Aaron Fox, arguably the fastest player in the NBA. Fox's 2017 rookie cards are under-graded, under-valued, and worth prioritizing before next NBA season, especially for Kings fans! For those of y...

Welcome to the first episode of our "FIVE" - Five players we are targeting during the NBA offseason in Basketball Cards, rookies, autos, and grails. Each player in this series is already playing at an All-Star level, during the first few years of his NBA career, for a team that has already made some noise in the playoffs. Gary welcomes you back with a familiar name - a point guard who sh...

After an unexplained absence, we are back for a mid-summer episode about the NBA, the National, and a new 5-part series for your offseason buying or collecting list. Gary would love to hear from any and all of you on Instagram DMs (@hoopsandcards) or by email (gary@hoopsandcards.com). Today, we talk about the National, Victor Wembanyama, and Basketball Card concerns in the offseason. For our Hoops...

We're BACK with an all-inclusive episode for Basketball Card Collectors and Investors, covering everything from flipping Lonnie Walkers to landing Patrick Mahomes rookies. Gary talks some sweet deals on a road trip to Grand Rapids, Michigan... some hopes for Jayson Tatum or Jimmy Butler... and the Victor Wembanyama effect on the hype, values, projections, and potential return of Basketball Card ma...

Buying Basketball cards can be fun for any budget, but sometimes you want to save up for better cards. Gary, our host of HoopsandCards, shares his personal journey and challenges us to move from the dollar boxes to the twenty dollar boxes or the $200+ club. We also talk about the NBA Playoffs and some specific cards that will be on our shopping list this summer. Join our Community full of Basketba...

Big names like Ja Morant and Anthony Edwards are done for the season. Rising stars like Jalen Brunson and Devin Booker are starting to cook. Is it time to sell or buy any of these guys? Who should we watch and maximize our card values with this month. Gary brings some warnings about buying anything now and some plans for patience and deals later in 2023. We talk about some of the dudes and teams t...

For the love of Basketball cards! Today's episode takes on the incredible NBA playoff action and what it could mean for Basketball Card players, collectors, and investors. Gary, our host, looks at some of the challenges and tendencies of buying cards during big moments in April or May. Some players (think Jokic or Embiid) could be adding a chip to their fast-growing legends. Others (think Fox,...

Card investors and collectors, have you ever wanted to get ahead of a player's spike in value? During the summer, a lot of NBA teams make trades and superstars change teams and massive doors open up for players like Mikal Bridges, Donovan Mitchell, and Jalen Brunson. Who could be next? Which players would benefit greatly from that much-needed change of scenery? How can we get out "in fron...

Today's episode previews all of the big playoff SERIES in the First Round of the NBA Playoffs, and any possible implications we are seeing for the Basketball Card Market. Gary, our host, goes into some of the players whose card markets have the chance to pop gradually or instantly during their playoff runs, and which cards to consider. We also talk a little bit about Prizm Basketball breaks an...