Finally made the drive up to The Palace yesterday to do my first NBA game for the new upcoming NBA season. It has been off to a slow start for me since that the Pistons open practice last week yielded no players signing at all. I thought after that event this would be a difficult season of autos. The Utah Jazz made me completely forget that event last night. I was finally glad to run into these guys again since they were not in the Pistons ticket plan I purchased last season. These guys really could of not been any nicer. Finally at last, here are my first results for the 07-08 NBA season!!!:
NBA preseason: Pistons vs. Jazz 10/12/07
Jazz
Morris Almond 6 cards
Carlos Boozer 2 8x10 photos (He started signing one of them with a blue sharpie. I told him I wanted it in Silver paint pen. He actually apologized to me and proceeded to do my other photo in the Silver but it smeared though since I ran out of 8x10 photo holder pages to put photos in. At least the blue came out nice though. Again Boozer is one of the more nicer players in the NBA I encountered.)
Ronnie Brewer 4 cards (I had a page of 5 cards out for him and I don't think he did the last one since it was a duplicate of one of the 4 cards he signed for me already. As far as I know, he is not doing duplicates.)
Damone Brown 4 cards (Where did this guy disappear at for the past 4 years lol???)
Jarron Collins 3 cards
Kyrylo Fesenko 1 card, 1 binder page (He did the binder page first on accident unaware I wanted him to sign on the card. I don't think he understood me at first.)
Gordan Giricek 1 card (Smeared part of it and signed it close to his face. His sig has gone downhill. I saw one of his cert. autos at a card shop I went to today and it was better then what he gave me at this game.)
Jason Hart 5 cards (One of the cards smeared.)
Donnell Harvey 3 cards
Andrei Kirilenko 5 cards, 2 8x10 photos!!! (This is rare to see him out for pregame shootaround since in the past, it has been know that his religious beliefs he had kept him from being anywhere out on the court involving pregame shootaround. It is nice to see he is trying something new!!!)
C.J. Miles 6 cards
Paul Millsap 3 cards
Mehmet Okur 10 cards ("Wow you have alot of cards of me!!!")
Ronnie Price 2 cards
Deron Williams 1 card (I got him to do 2 cards for me in the past. My guess is he is down to one per now.)
Phil D. Johnson 8 cards
That is all I have to share result wise for this game.
Boozer, AK-47, and Mehmet Okur are the nicer NBA stars that I have encountered from my NBA experiences. Those NBA stars really could of not been any nicer at this game!!!
While I was graphing the Jazz, I did look over at the Pistons side and see Chauncey Billups, Jarvis Hayes signed. I am sure a couple other players did but I was unable to look while I was getting the Jazz players.
It was nice to see the Jazz did not skip a beat at this game. Thanks alot for looking!!!
Here are some scans of what I got at this game:
Next up for me: Pistons vs. Wizards 10/24/07
NBA preseason: Pistons vs. Jazz 10/12/07
Jazz
Morris Almond 6 cards
Carlos Boozer 2 8x10 photos (He started signing one of them with a blue sharpie. I told him I wanted it in Silver paint pen. He actually apologized to me and proceeded to do my other photo in the Silver but it smeared though since I ran out of 8x10 photo holder pages to put photos in. At least the blue came out nice though. Again Boozer is one of the more nicer players in the NBA I encountered.)
Ronnie Brewer 4 cards (I had a page of 5 cards out for him and I don't think he did the last one since it was a duplicate of one of the 4 cards he signed for me already. As far as I know, he is not doing duplicates.)
Damone Brown 4 cards (Where did this guy disappear at for the past 4 years lol???)
Jarron Collins 3 cards
Kyrylo Fesenko 1 card, 1 binder page (He did the binder page first on accident unaware I wanted him to sign on the card. I don't think he understood me at first.)
Gordan Giricek 1 card (Smeared part of it and signed it close to his face. His sig has gone downhill. I saw one of his cert. autos at a card shop I went to today and it was better then what he gave me at this game.)
Jason Hart 5 cards (One of the cards smeared.)
Donnell Harvey 3 cards
Andrei Kirilenko 5 cards, 2 8x10 photos!!! (This is rare to see him out for pregame shootaround since in the past, it has been know that his religious beliefs he had kept him from being anywhere out on the court involving pregame shootaround. It is nice to see he is trying something new!!!)
C.J. Miles 6 cards
Paul Millsap 3 cards
Mehmet Okur 10 cards ("Wow you have alot of cards of me!!!")
Ronnie Price 2 cards
Deron Williams 1 card (I got him to do 2 cards for me in the past. My guess is he is down to one per now.)
Phil D. Johnson 8 cards
That is all I have to share result wise for this game.
Boozer, AK-47, and Mehmet Okur are the nicer NBA stars that I have encountered from my NBA experiences. Those NBA stars really could of not been any nicer at this game!!!
While I was graphing the Jazz, I did look over at the Pistons side and see Chauncey Billups, Jarvis Hayes signed. I am sure a couple other players did but I was unable to look while I was getting the Jazz players.
It was nice to see the Jazz did not skip a beat at this game. Thanks alot for looking!!!
Here are some scans of what I got at this game:
Next up for me: Pistons vs. Wizards 10/24/07