In 1997-98, Skybox produced a 123-card metal basketball insert issue in addition to its base set. The first ten of each the 100 serially printed cards had an emerald green background. One of them featured Michael Jordan. The Precious Metal Gems Green (PMG) cards came in packs costing a few dollars. For a decade, no one except a few diehards paid much attention. “Initially, the cards were no more popular than other basketball inserts of the era, but that changed about ten years ago when the set became sort of a cult favorite,” notes Rich Mueller in Sports Collectors Daily.
In 1997-98, Skybox produced a 123-card metal basketball…
April 24, 2024 | 2:36 pm EDT Update
Gerald Bourguet: Bradley Beal on the Suns falling apart again in Game 2: “We’ll be better, man. Everybody wants to be perfect, I think everybody wants to win. I think we’re pressing a little bit. And I think now we can settle down, go home and just get back to playing the way we know we can.”
Anthony Slater: The Kings are promoting assistant coach Luke Loucks to the front of the bench, per Mike Brown. Loucks worked with Brown with the Warriors and was one of his first hires with the Kings. He’s worked closely with De’Aaron Fox the last two seasons.
A moment like Monday’s wild scramble that led to Knicks guard Donte DiVincenzo’s game-winning 3-pointer in their miraculous 104-101 win over the 76ers in Game 2, which put the Knicks up 2-0 in the first-round NBA playoff series. That sequence earned just the sixth double “Bang” call from Breen in his Hall of Fame career. “Three or four specific things had to happen and they did, so when he hit that shot and the crowd went crazy, it just came out,” Breen, who was calling the game for MSG, told The Post on Wednesday in a phone interview. “It’s not something that was thought of, it just came out for such a spectacular play during this extraordinary sequence in such a huge playoff game.”
Breen, who has been inside Madison Square Garden for some of its greatest moments, said Monday marked one of the loudest crowds he’s experienced. “That’s going to become one of my favorite all-time moments,” Breen said. “There’s something special about this team. It’s not just group of individual players, it’s truly a team, so that made it extra fun. “The Knicks have gone through hard stretches and to have a team this exciting, there’s no fan base in the world that deserves a team like this like Knicks fans. … I’m a lifetime New Yorker, so not the most objective, but there’s no better sound in sports than a roar at Madison Square Garden. That all comes into play, how fans have stuck with the team, and to let them have that moment made it especially satisfying.”
April 24, 2024 | 1:20 pm EDT Update
Nets GM Sean Marks: 'Nicolas Claxton is the No. 1 priority for us'
Michael Scotto: Nets GM Sean Marks on Nicolas Claxton: “Nic is the No. 1 priority for us, there’s no doubt about that. We hope he’s a Net for a very long time. We hope we can continue to build around him and with him.”
Erik Slater: Sean Marks says the Nets expect Ben Simmons to be ready for training camp: “The expectations are certainly for him to be ready, there should be no reason for him not to be. The doctors and therapists have told us that he should be ready to go next season. Again, it’s gonna be on
Ian Begley: Asked about the 2-minute report, Tom Thibodeau says he’s more concerned about ‘the 46-minute report.” Says that he knew refs couldn’t call fouls there because of the way they officiated Jalen Brunson during Game 2.
Jorge Sierra: THE GOAT SIXTH MEN 🐐 These are the players who have received 6MOY votes the most times. There is clearly an archetype. pic.twitter.com/5kYcjJ4DPl
Gilbert Arenas on steroids: ‘We don’t know what the 90s and the 80s players are doing because it was only one test, okay? October 1st everyone got tested, October 1st. That means, October 2nd if you wanted inject into your ass you got a whole year to do whatever you want. So if you want to insinuate a dude (LeBron James) who got probed by the FBI and have four tests now is on it then how are you not looking into the 90s or the 80s when they played all 82 games with no medical staff, no ankle injuries, these motherf*ckers didn’t even catch flues, all of them were bald headed by the age of 25, so we we’re going to pretend this part of History in the 90s and 80s that these wasn’t the most baldheaded 25-year-olds that we ever seen, that they didn’t all look like Rambo-f*cking-2, right in the middle of the steroid crisis in every sport, just somehow NBA was cool?’
