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!
Portland has won 8/10 games this month and 9 of their last 11. Currently, we're a hair behind San Antonio. I'm talking 0.3% behind. If we were to fail in avoiding the Lakers in the first round by that margin, I'd be mad. Luckily, we have a big game coming up against OKC, the 6th seed, this Sunday. Ideally, we prove that we deserve that 6th seed and play Dallas in the first round. This season, we've definitely proved that we can give them a run for their money.
In other news, I found this video. Blazermania personified.
Part 2: Hobby World
You may or may not know (you probably don't) that I have chosen to start up a set collection. A product collection, to be more precise. I'm going to try and finish a many subsets as I can from:
2008/09 TOPPS HARDWOOD BASKETBALL
I don't have too many right now, but I'm making some trades for some. Guy over at Basketball Card Blog suggested I open up a box to kick it off. I would really like to, but I just can't afford by myself right now. So...I'm going to try and fill a group break of this stuff (only one box). I know I only have 3 followers, so this probably won't help much, but if you're interested, the video about it can be found here.
The options are:
A) 15 spots, $8.50 paypal per spot
Randomize all names, put them in a draft order, everyone gets to choose from the teams that are left when their turn comes up
OR
B) 10 spots, $12 paypal per spot
Randomize all names at the end of the break, people get to choose which card each time their name comes up in the draft. More info on the video description.
So, yeah. I already have a testimonial--Guy is willing to join in ;).
Oh, and thanks to Guy's Blog and his widgets, I can tell you Portland is only 4.5 games behind Denver for the division title. Not too bad.
As for the card collecting world today, I got a really really really really very really really fantastic-looking card in today and it is of a Blazer this time. Any guesses? It's a dude. And he plays basketball....no? He wears number 4.
WOOO Bayless! Got this one off of good ol' eBay for a single Alexander Hamilton and I have to say it's the most well-designed and -executed card I have owned for a long, long time. It's an 08/09 UD Black Jerryd Bayless auto rookie quad jersey /99. The rainbow foil really makes the card pop out and I love the silver on card signature. And to be honest, I couldn't decide which picture to use, so here's like 5 of them. Oh, and it's numbered 58/99.
