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Hillsboro, Oregon, United States
How's it going? I'm Walker Neilson, a Portland Trail Blazer fan for life. I chose to begin a blog for 2010. I don't know how far it will go, but I'll try to have frequest posts on here. It will be a mix of NBA talk and sports card talk. Thanks!

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Happy new decade!


Hey internet, and welcome to my brand new blog. This is going to be my way to express feelings and opinions about sports (specifically the NBA) and the trading cards that accompany them. I'm a collector of sports cards and am fairly involved in the hobby for being only a teenager. As you have likely already noticed, I am a big fan of the Portland Trail Blazers. I'm going to use this blog as a way to practice writing in my free time and also communicate with other NBA fans and collectors! Currently, I have several different collections going:

+ Zach Randolph -- My main player collection. I have a little over 300 different cards of him including 20+ 1/1's and around 40 autographs.
+ Portland Trail Blazers -- My team collection. I don't go as in depth as Randolph trying to attain every different card, but I do like picking up nice cards of my Blazers.
+ Jerryd Bayless and Martell Webster -- These guys I set aside from my other Blazers. I collect them a little more than the rest of the team, but not as much as Randolph.
+ Tyrus Thomas and Josh Smith -- Two more side PC's that I haven't added to in ages. I began my J-Smoove side PC simply because I love his energy and dunks. The Tyrus collection came about after I pulled his Bowman Chrome Gold Ref RC /50 and his red hot HP RC Parallel Auto Patch /50.

My YouTube channel is under the name TBlazers50. I have just over 500 subscribers there and have made many friends doing mailday videos and such.

HobbyKings is the message board I visit most often. It's a heavily basketball-oriented card trading site, so check them out if you'd like: www.hobbykings.com

Lastly, I'd like to thank the guy who I got the idea from. His blog is at www.thebasketballcardblog.com and focuses on the same two passions I have--the Blazers and basketball card collecting. He's a great guy and I strongly suggest you subscribe to his blog if you haven't already.

Thank you very much for viewing, and I should have my first real blog post up really soon!

4 comments:

  1. Sorry, correction--it's www.basketballcardblog.com.

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  2. Hey, nice banner. Blogging is fun. 'Blog it and they will come'.

    Good luck!

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  3. Oh man! Portland is about to become the mecca of basketball card blogs. At least we have a team to be proud of!

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