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| 1975-76 Topps Basketball Washington Bullets Cards Collage |
Back in the day 1975 to be exact I had gotten a few basketball cards from Topps for the 1975-76 NBA season. Fortunately I had gotten a couple of my Homie Team the
Washington Bullets. I first became aware of them a few years before when they were the
Baltimore Bullets. I think I started getting into them around '71 when they made their move, anyway I digress. It was around this time 1975 or 1976 when I attended my first
Bullets Game of maybe 2 or 3 total in my life. I do recall their opponent was The
New Orleans Jazz (years before they would move to Utah - UTAH? JAZZ?) I think the
Bullets won. I'm not sure if that was the game that was the free T-Shirt Jersey game, or the School Safety Patrol discount game (maybe it was both). Anyway for the t-shirt game they gave away t-shirts that looked like the players jersey's. I wanted either
Wes Unseld, or was it
Phil Chenier I wanted? I ended up with
Leonard Robinson. I don't think I have that shirt anymore, and never took a photo of me in it.
Of the basketball cards I had collected as a kid the 1975-76 Topps was one of the few I had gotten. My brother might of had some of the 74-75 Topps and definitely some of the tall boy 1970-71 cards.Once again I digress (you will notice I do that on this blog a lot. Shall we get on with the 1975-76
Bullets cards then?
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| 1975-75 Topps Basketball 220 Washington Bullets Team Card |
220 Washington Bullets: Team Card and checklist. I think I had this card back when I was a kid, not sure I only had 4 or 5 of the 12 cards in this team set. This card is an uncorrected error card, check out the back.
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| 220 back of Team Card/Checklist Uncorrected Error |
The uncorrected error on this card is that both the cards for Leonard Robinson and Wes Unseld are listed as card number 151. The correct number for the Wes Unseld card should be 115. The team card they talk about is the Team Leaders card Which I will get to at the end of my list.
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| 1975-76 Topps Basketball - 190 Phil Chenier AS |
190 Phil Chenier: This is one of the 4 or 5 cards I had when I was a kid. I always thought it was cool that of the few Bullets cards I had from this set it has been one of my favorites. I thought it was cool that he was on the All-Star team (2nd team).
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| 1975-76 Topps Basketball - 173 Clem Haskins |
173 Clem Haskins: Yep had this card as well. I didn't follow the team well enough to know much about how good a player
Haskins was. I just had his card from this season.
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| 1975-76 Topps Basketball - 60 Elvin Hayes |
60 Elvin Hayes: Don't think I had this one as a kid. I do however have a good maybe very good conditioned
Elvin Hayes card from 1970-71 Topps #70 from when he was on the
San Diego Rockets, it's warping dinged on the corners and some sides and a light crease at the bottom. I used to think it was in worse condition but I was confusing it with the 1976-77 #133card I have of his. That one has creases that look like lighting strikes and major corner bending falling apart. Someday I'll have to scan those. Both of them I've had since the day, the 1970-71 card was my brother's I'm fairly sure about that. This card is pretty well off center to the left and bottom, maybe I can do with an upgrade.
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| 1975-76 Topps Basketball - 23 Jimmy Jones |
23 Jimmy Jones: Didn't have this one. Don't have any stories about Jimmy I don't remember him from those days since I didn't wholeheartedly follow the
Bullets even when I was following them. Sorry Mr.
Jones. It's an OK action shot but for a card the image of him is pretty small.
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| 1975-76 Topps Basketball - 202 Tom Kozelko |
202 Tom Kozelko: Gesundheit, but seriously didn't have this card. He might have been the last card I got from
sportlots for this set or was it Wes Unseld? My first thought was he looks awful scrawny and white to be a basketball player. He is another player I don't recall from those years. I should upgrade this card since it is soooooooooooo off center to the left and top (thus the back also has centering issues).