Starting out in NBA, help!

[Jesse Dart]

Hi everyone just joined am only a youngster and have been collecting AFL for two years. Not interested in base sets (for now) and am more focused on cheap inserts. Any advice will be appreciated.

 

[Awoj21]

Welcome mate.
Pick a direction and run with it. For example, will you be a set collector, player collector, team collector or a mix?

 

[GarnettFan4Life]

Set up a COMC account as a middle point to have US stuff sent to and you can also get a bunch of inserts off sellers on the site too.

 

[xavierty]

i think find a cheap set you like and start there ...... plant a seed and watch it grow...

 

[WoobieZarz]

Hi everyone just joined am only a youngster and have been collecting AFL for two years. Not interested in base sets (for now) and am more focused on cheap inserts. Any advice will be appreciated.

Hey Jesse, do you have a favourite team, or perhaps a past-time player? Or even a new-age player?

If so, do some shopping around online (ebay and COMC.com are both great for this) and see what takes your fancy.

Head over to the box-break sections here on these forums, and see what cards are being pulled, and see if there's anything there that you might like to collect.

Rather than just buying anything and everything NBA, chase something that you can appreciate and collect.

 

[West Oz Cards]

The tendency when most people start out is they cast the net far and wide over a heap of insert set chases, then realise it can get expensive chasing multiple sets.

So I guess the small piece of advice I can give is to set a budget and work within it, to avoid being disappointed with being unable to complete lots of different sets.

Pick them off one by one.

 

[traderman33]

whatever works, dude.

 

[WoobieZarz]

Any interest in the big Diesel, Shaq Daddy???

@Matty4292 got a great offer going - http://www.ozcardtrader.com.au/community/threads/400-shaq-base-inserts-70dlvd.171887/

 

[Jesse Dart]

Update! I have recently picked up a Jarrett Jack 13/50 Artifacts Red Relics card and A Fleer Ultra. 96/97 Michael Jordan Starring Role! Oh, and I am also thinking that my player collection should be based around Nerlens Noel. Any opinions on either the cards or Nerlens as a PC would be appreciated.

 

[WoobieZarz]

Hard to make comment, really but if you like the cards then all good.
I mean, neither really make any sense if you're looking at starting a Nerlens Noel collection.

Noel could well be a standout player, too hard to tell as he sat out his entire Rookie season due to injury.

GL with the collection!

 

[GarnettFan4Life]

Nerlens prices rising and as soon as he has a great game watch those double! Get some now if possible