First and foremost, special thanks to Clay from Topps for providing us at Hobby Insider the chance to review one of there newest products.

New for the 2005-2006 season, Topps NBA Collector Chips are a slam-dunk featuring elite players on collectible poker chips! Every clamshell-style pack will contain 5 collectible chips, including randomly inserted Autographed chips and one sequentially numbered parallel chip per pack. The base set will consist of 200 players, divided between 4 colors and featuring current veterans, new Rookies and Retired Legends. Autographs are available from more than 30 players, including rookie Andrew Bogut , stars Shaquille O'Neal and Allen Iverson and legends Bill Walton, Moses Malone, Julius Erving, Dave Cowens, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Rick Barry, Elgin Baylor, George Gervin, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar!

2005-06 Topps NBA Collector Chips are a slam dunk featuring elite players on collectible chips! Every pack contains 5 collectible chips – including randomly inserted Autographed and sequentially numbered* Parallel chips. Now, you can join in a new game with chips you will treasure for a lifetime.

The three rookies we pulled are Sean May of the Charlotte Bobcats, Deron Williams of the Utah Jazz and Channing Frye of the New York Knicks.

There are a few parallels in this chip set, including; 2005 NBA All-Star Game Players (Ilgauskas /399), sequentially numbered parallels (blue to /299 and the Retired Legends parallels (Reed to /399) as well.