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<blockquote data-quote="Indiana Jones" data-source="post: 897913" data-attributes="member: 8425">[Another Site ;Jun 29 2010, 07:33 AM](Responding to &quot;Holding a card too long or not long enough?&quot;)I did this once. I was collecting two &quot;gems in the rough basketball players&nbsp; back in 1993. One was Latrell Sprewell. This guy moved like a young Jordan. Wirey and quick. But he had no hype coming in.&nbsp; He came in under the radar until his 41-point torching of the Knicks. How could a rookie do that to the top physical defensive team in the league?The other was the hype machine - Harold Miner aka Baby Jordan. I had quite a LOT of RCs and Classic AU cards of him. But when I seen him play, he was NOTHING compared to Latrell. Harold was just average at best. I could see the writing on the wall. So I sold everything I had of his at 50% BV right after he won the Slam Dunk contest. They ate it up. He fizzled that summer.I kept Sprewell and he spiked up a few years later and then he went nutso and tried to choke his coach, thus his card dropping back down to their before-he-was-popular prices. Still, Sprewell was one of my favorite &quot;Could Have Been&quot; players along with Richard Dumas.Richard Dumas was another who I thought would pan out nicely. He had skillz! But he also had a drug problem. Such a waste of talent.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Indiana Jones, post: 897913, member: 8425"] [Another Site ;Jun 29 2010, 07:33 AM] [I](Responding to "Holding a card too long or not long enough?")[/I] I did this once. I was collecting two "gems in the rough basketball players back in 1993. One was Latrell Sprewell. This guy moved like a young Jordan. Wirey and quick. But he had no hype coming in. He came in under the radar until his 41-point torching of the Knicks. How could a rookie do that to the top physical defensive team in the league? The other was the hype machine - Harold Miner aka Baby Jordan. I had quite a LOT of RCs and Classic AU cards of him. But when I seen him play, he was NOTHING compared to Latrell. Harold was just average at best. I could see the writing on the wall. So I sold everything I had of his at 50% BV right after he won the Slam Dunk contest. They ate it up. He fizzled that summer. I kept Sprewell and he spiked up a few years later and then he went nutso and tried to choke his coach, thus his card dropping back down to their before-he-was-popular prices. Still, Sprewell was one of my favorite "Could Have Been" players along with Richard Dumas. Richard Dumas was another who I thought would pan out nicely. He had skillz! But he also had a drug problem. Such a waste of talent. [/QUOTE]

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