This Keith Erickson basketball card is number 140 in a series of 264 that was manufactured by the Topps Company Inc. for the 1972-1973 National Basketball Association (NBA) season. The front of the card features a posed picture of the Los Angeles Lakers forward-center on a blue background. The card’s reverse features a small cartoon image illustrating the factoid that “Keith played volleyball in 1968 Olympics,” as well as a short biography and career statistics.
Keith Erickson played 766 games in the NBA over 12 seasons from 1965 - 1977. Erickson split most his career between the Los Angeles Lakers (five seasons) and Phoenix Suns (four seasons). Erickson also played two years with the Chicago Bulls and one for the San Francisco Warriors.