Lamar Green Basketball Card
Lamar Green Basketball Card
- Description
- This Lamar Green basketball card is number 119 in a series of 264 that was manufactured by the Topps Company Inc. for the 1972-1973 National Basketball Association season. The front of the card features a posed picture of the Phoenix Suns forward on a blue background. The card’s reverse features a small cartoon image illustrating the factoid that “Lamar was an All-Tournament performer in the citrus classic,” as well as a short biography and career statistics.
- Green played in the NBA from 1969-1975, spending most of his career with the Suns. He played a partial season in 1974-1975 for the New Orleans Jazz, then finished that season and his career with the Virginia Squires in the ABA.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- card, basketball
- date made
- 1972
- copyright date
- 1969
- depicted
- Green, Lamar
- publisher
- NBA Properties, Inc.
- Topps Chewing Gum
- maker
- Topps Chewing Gum
- NBA Properties, Inc.
- 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
- 1982.0568.078
- catalog number
- 1982.0568.078
- accession number
- 1982.0568
- subject
- Basketball
- Professional
- Sports
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- Cultural and Community Life: Sport and Leisure
- Basketball Cards
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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