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Review:
2006-07 Bowman Elevation Basketball (Review
by Bill Kovacs A.K.A. chiliwilly)
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2006-07 Bowman
Elevation Basketball
Each sealed box
contains 16 packs of 5 cards each in a 140 card base set
including 50 Rookie cards (#`d to 999, 799, or 499). >>>
Each box contains FOURTEEN Rookie and/or parallel cards
and SEVEN Memorabilia and/or Autograph cards. Parallel
sets: General Manager (Veteran > #`d to 399, Rookie Autograph
> #`d to 139 or less), President (Veteran > #`d to 299,
Rookie Autograph > #`d to 99 or less), CEO (Veteran >
#`d to 99, Rookie Autograph > #`d to 79 or less), and
Executive Platinum (all #`d to 1). Inserts: Memorabilia
cards (Single > #`d to 99 or less, Dual > #`d to 99 or
less, Single Patch > #`d to 10 or less, Dual Patch > #`d
to 5 or less, and Triple Patch > #`d to 5 or less) and
Autograph Memorabilia cards (Single > #`d to 25 or less,
Dual > #`d to 15 or less, Single Patch > #`d to 5 or less,
and Dual Patch > #`d to 5 or less). |
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Base Card Scan |
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| Comments:
The 2006-07
Bowman Elevation Basketball is a bold new innovative
design from Topps. The cards have a refractor like finish
with horizontal lines for the most part on the card.
The bottom portion of the card has vertical lines in
the top-of-the-key area where the players name is located.
Nice high-quality cards with superb action or posed
shots that we expect from a top notch product. The back
of the cards has a complete one line listing of the
players NBA career record. Here's an example of the
line for Chris Bosh...226 GP-36.6 MPG-1.8 APG-8.5 RPG-1.3
BPG-16.8 PPG. The new Bowman Elevation logo is at the
top right corner of the card.
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Rookie Card Scan |
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The rookies have
the rookie designation on the vertical stripe on the
right hand side of the card. Most of the rookies have
nice posed action shots from their college days as evidenced
by their college uniforms. Except for the rookie designation
they are the same as the base cards. The back of the
cards have the players college stats with the same format
as the base cards. We pulled (9) rookies of one form
or another from our 16 packs of cards in this box.
- (4) regular rookie cards /999
- (2) parallel rookie cards /399
- (1) parallel rookie cards /299
- (2) autographed rookie cards
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Insert Card Scans |
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The inserts cards
are parallels of the base set. Here's the breakdown for
inserts we pulled;
Inserts
- (4) parallels /399
- (2) parallels /299
- (1) parallels /99
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Game Used Card Scans |
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We pulled (5) Game-used
from our Bowman Elevation box. Here's the breakdown;
Game-Used
- (1) Dwyane Wade /99
- (1) Emeka Okafor /79
- (1) Jason Kidd /99
- (1) Tyson Chandler /25
- (1) Gilbert Arenas /49
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Autograph Scan |
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The autographs
from the box were Adam Morrison of the Charlotte Bobcats
and Solomon Jones of the Atlanta Hawks. The autographs
are clean and crisp without any breaks, bubbling or
smears. Very nice high-quality autographs of two NBA
rookies.
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The
Final Verdict! |
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rate this box a 5 of 5 HI Fives. 2006-07 Bowman Elevation
Basketball is a winner. I would not hesitate to purchase
this product at all because of the high quality of the
base set and the amount of hot pulls that are guaranteed
in this box. You can usually find these boxes in the $93
to $139 price range. Good value for the money in my opinion. |
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