BLACK FRIDAY COMC PICKUPS - PART 56: BLUE DEVIL

WE ARE BEGINNING TO REACH THE END OF THE PLANNED PICKUPS FROM THE BLACK FRIDAY SALE. I HAD TO MAKE SOME EXTREMELY DIFFICULT CHOICES ON CARDS FOR A FAVORITE PLAYER AND A FAVORITE SET. TO AVOID MAKING DECISIONS, I WAS ENTERING IN DOZENS OF PLAYER AND ACTOR NAMES INTO THE SEARCH BAR TO SEE WHAT WOULD COME UP. THIS CARD CAUGHT MY EYE AND I HAD A DOUBLE TAKE WHEN I LOOKED CLOSER

2022-23 CHRONICLES DRAFT PICKS  A.J. GRIFFIN DONRUSS RATED ROOKIE BLUE PARALLEL

DUE TO VARIOUS PROCRASTINATIONS THIS CARD IS BEING POSTED EITHER RIGHT BEFORE OR RIGHT AFTER THE 2023 NBA DRAFT SO IT'S APPROPRIATE WE HAVE A CHRONICLES DRAFT PICK CARD TODAY. I HAVE NOT PICKED UP MANY PACKS OF BASKETBALL CARDS IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS SO MY COLLECTION OF CURRENT HAWKS PLAYERS IS KINDA SKIMPY. I CHECKED OUT COMC'S OFFERINGS FOR MOST OF THE HAWKS' RECENT DRAFT PICKS AND STUMBLED ACROSS THIS AJ GRIFFIN CHRONICLES DONRUSS CARD. THIS WAS WHEN CHRONICLES DRAFT PICKS WAS PRETTY NEW AND THERE WASN'T A TON OF THEM LISTED. FOR COMPARISON A JALEN JOHNSON FLEER METAL ROOKIE I WAS CONCIDERING HAD DOZENS OF COPIES AVAILABLE, WHILE THIS DONRUSS CARD HAD JUST TWO. THOSE TWO CAUGHT MY EYE BECAUSE THEY BOTH LOOKED A LITTLE DIFFERENT. ONE HAD NUMBERS, THE OTHER HAD DIFFERENT NUMBERS. THEY WERE BOTH LISTED AS A BASE CARD BUT WERE SERIAL NUMBERED, ONE TO 199 AND THE OTHER TO 99. THIS WAS IN THE EARLY DAYS OF MY CHRONICLES OBSESSION SO I KNEW NOTHING ABOUT THIS PRODUCT SO I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON. I DID KNOW THAT 99 IS LOVER THAN 199 WHICH IS LOWER THAN HOWEVER MANY DOZENS OF METAL JALEN JOHNSON CARDS ARE OUT THERE SO AJ WENT INTO MY CART. TURNS OUT IT'S A BLUE FOIL PARALLEL WHICH IS VERY APPROPRIATE FOR A DUKE PLAYER. GRIFFIN ALSO TURNED OUT TO BE A PRETTY DANG GOOD PLAYER AND HELPED TAKE THE STING OUT OF THE DUMB KEVIN HUERTER TRADE 

THERE'S STILL TONS OF THAT SKYBOX METAL ROOKIE OF JALEN ON COMC SO MAYBE HE'LL END UP IN THIS YEAR'S BLACK FRIDAY CART. I'VE BEEN PURPOSEFULLY HOLDING OFF ON BUYING CARDS OF HAWKS PLAYERS NOT NAMES TRAE RECENTLY SINCE HALF THE TEAM IS ON THE TRADE BLOCK AT THE MOMENT. THANKFULLY THE TEAM STINKS AT THE MOMENT SO I CAN GET ROOKIE CARDS FOR THE REST OF THE TEAM FOR UNDER A BUCK AND SOMETIMES TWO FOR A DOLLAR ONLINE. I'M QUITE EXCITED FOR THIS YEAR'S DRAFT DUE TO ALL THE TRADE RUMORS FLOATING AROUND AND THE FACT THAT THE HAWKS ARE ON THEIR BEST DRAFT RUN PRETTY MUCH EVER. TRAE'S A SUPERSTAR, AND COLLINS, HUNTER, OKONGWU JALEN AND AJ ARE ALL DECENT PLAYERS. AFTER YEARS AND YEARS OF ROY MARBLES AND DOUG EDWARDSES AND ED GRAYS AND ROSHOWN MCLEODS AND DERMARR JOHNSONS AND JOSH CHILDRESSES AND SHELDEN WILLIAMSES IT'S SO NICE TO HAVE DRAFT PICKS WORK OUT. I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ANYONE IN THIS YEARS' DRAFT CLASS AND WILL NOT PRETEND TO KNOW SO I PLAN ON JUST BEING HAPPY WITH WHOEVER THE HAWKS PICK UP. I CAN'T LIE THOUGH, I'D LOVE IT IF THEY WERE ABLE TO SELECT GRADEY DICK FOR NO OTHER REASON THAT I WANT TO HEAR HIS NAME CALLED ON EVERY GAME BROADCAST