Lamar Green Basketball Card
Lamar Green Basketball Card
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- Description
- This Lamar Green basketball card is number 9 in a series of 264 manufactured by the Topps Company Inc. for the 1973-1974 NBA season. The front of the card features a posed picture of the Phoenix Suns forward. The card’s reverse features a small cartoon image illustrating the factoid that “Lamar didn’t play Basketball until his Jr. Year in High School,” as well as a short biographical sketch and career statistics.
- Lamar Green played five seasons in the NBA for the Phoenix Suns and New Orleans Jazz, before finishing his career with the American Basketball Association's Virginia Squires.
- Object Name
- card, basketball
- date made
- 1973
- depicted
- Green, Lamar
- maker
- NBA Properties, Inc.
- Topps Chewing Gum
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 8.89 cm x 6.35 cm
- ID Number
- 1982.0568.018.1
- accession number
- 1982.0568
- catalog number
- 1982.0568.018.1
- subject
- Sports
- Basketball
- Professional
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- Cultural and Community Life: Sport and Leisure
- Basketball Cards
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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