15 Most Valuable 1995 Upper Deck Basketball Cards
1995 Upper Deck Basketball Set Snapshot
SET DETAILS
360
Kevin Garnett, Jerry Stackhouse, Michael Finley, Damon Stoudamire
Michael Jordan, Shaq, Charles Barkley, Hakeem Olajuwon, Scottie Pippen
GRADING ANALYSIS
12,515
TOTAL GRADED BY PSA
1,681
13.4%
MOST GRADED CARDS
1
#23 Michael Jordan
14.1%
1,760
2
#137 Michael Jordan
12.2%
1,530
3
#352 Michael Jordan
8.5%
1,068
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- #1
1995 Upper Deck #23 Michael Jordan
PSA 10 Value $650Total PSA Population 1,760PSA 10 Population 133PSA 10 Grade Rate 7.6% (Set Avg: 13.4%)After the false start of his 1995 return, Michael Jordan returned to his rightful place as basketball’s final boss.
It was a different supporting cast for the second leg of the Chicago Bulls dynasty.
Scottie Pippen remained, but now Jordan got to maximize the services of a revamped roster, including the rebound madness of two-time NBA Defensive Player-of-the-Year Dennis Rodman.
Now the lynchpin of a leaner, meaner Bulls machine, Jordan flourished, winning his fourth of five career MVPs.
The 32-year-old grabbed his eighth scoring title (30.4) and set NBA highs in shots made per game (11.2) and shots taken (22.6).
There has been no talent of any era who has made a one-man show more deadly, more efficient than Jordan in his prime here.
The playoffs were the proof in the pudding.
Jordan averaged over 30 again (30.7) in 18 playoff games.
Chicago lost just three of those contests, two of those in a six-game NBA Finals win over Seattle, a triumph capped with a Jordan series MVP.
- #2
1995 Upper Deck #335 Michael Jordan
PSA 10 Value $300Total PSA Population 772PSA 10 Population 85PSA 10 Grade Rate 11.0% (Set Avg: 13.4%) - #3
1995 Upper Deck #137 Michael Jordan
PSA 10 Value $275Total PSA Population 1,530PSA 10 Population 291PSA 10 Grade Rate 19.0% (Set Avg: 13.4%) - #4
1995 Upper Deck #352 Michael Jordan
PSA 10 Value $275Total PSA Population 1,068PSA 10 Population 191PSA 10 Grade Rate 17.9% (Set Avg: 13.4%) - #5
1995 Upper Deck #273 Kevin Garnett Rookie Card
Rookie CardPSA 10 Value $265Total PSA Population 965PSA 10 Population 51PSA 10 Grade Rate 5.3% (Set Avg: 13.4%)Sometimes we forget the human side of sudden NBA stardom.
As the first high-schooler to enter the league since 1975, Kevin Garnett was basically a test subject for a wave of prep prospects.
And it didn’t come without its share of growing pains.
After all, even though Garnett was already a freak athlete when the Minnesota Timberwolves selected him #5 in the 1995 NBA Draft, he was still just a teenager.
“I vividly remember him calling me after his first day of training camp and on the brink of tears,” Garnett’s former agent, Eric Fleisher, said.
“The guys on the team were being physical with him, pushing him, grabbing him.
He was a kid joining a man’s world.” It took a year of practices, scrimmages, and real-time games for Garnett to eventually find his footing.
The 19-year-old split time as a reserve and starter in his rookie campaign, averaging 10.4 points and 6.3 rebounds in 28.7 minutes per conteSt.
- #6
1995 Upper Deck #339 Michael Jordan
PSA 10 Value $125Total PSA Population 496PSA 10 Population 80PSA 10 Grade Rate 16.1% (Set Avg: 13.4%) - #7
1995 Upper Deck #341 Michael Jordan
PSA 10 Value $100Total PSA Population 509PSA 10 Population 109PSA 10 Grade Rate 21.4% (Set Avg: 13.4%) - #8
1995 Upper Deck #267 Arvydas Sabonis Rookie Card
Rookie CardPSA 10 Value $90Total PSA Population 17PSA 10 Population 8PSA 10 Grade Rate 47.1% (Set Avg: 13.4%)Arvydas Sabonis’ rookie season came a decade later than it should have.
When the Portland Trail Blazers drafted Sabonis with the 24th pick of the 1986 NBA Draft, the end of the Cold War was over a half-decade away.
The Lithuanian native was suddenly a hot-button topic, a Soviet talent barred from competing on American soil.
The years passed, and Sabonis made his name overseas, earning recognition as one of the 50 greatest players in both FIBA and Euroleague history.
However, as Sabonis racked up awards and trophies in Europe, he also racked up a novel’s worth of leg injuries.
Each injury, especially the two Achilles tears he suffered in 1986 and 1987, cut into his athleticism.
So, when he finally surfaced with the Blazers as a “rookie” in 1995-96, he was a compromised version of a former all-world player.
Still, Sabonis was imposing and fundamentally great, finishing second for Rookie-of-the-Year and Sixth-Man-of-the-Year with averages of 14.5 points and 8.1 rebounds in 23.8 minutes per game.
- #9
1995 Upper Deck #337 Michael Jordan
PSA 10 Value $85Total PSA Population 420PSA 10 Population 83PSA 10 Grade Rate 19.8% (Set Avg: 13.4%) - #10
1995 Upper Deck #237 Magic Johnson
PSA 10 Value $50Total PSA Population 79PSA 10 Population 13PSA 10 Grade Rate 16.5% (Set Avg: 13.4%) - #11
1995 Upper Deck #95 Shaq
PSA 10 Value $50Total PSA Population 68PSA 10 Population 8PSA 10 Grade Rate 11.8% (Set Avg: 13.4%)Shaq and the Orlando Magic got the best of Michael Jordan once.
It would not happen again.
When the Magic upended the Bulls in a six-game Conference Semifinal during the 1995 Playoffs, it felt like there was a real disruptor in the room.
Maybe Jordan’s return from baseball wouldn’t automatically come with an armful of new trophies.
However, Orlando couldn’t cement their position as Chicago’s Kryptonite.
It felt plausible during the 1995-96 regular season, mind you.
Shaq turned in an All-NBA Third Team performance, averaging over 26 points (26.6) with eleven rebounds and over two blocks per conteSt. This younger version of O’Neal was hyper-athletic and long, and he essentially was the gravity that kept the 60-win Magic together.
However, he couldn’t top Jordan a second time around.
With Horace Grant and Nick Anderson compromised due to injury, the Bulls rolled the Magic in a four-and-out Eastern Conference Final.
It ended the short-term rivalry in lopsided fashion and ended O’Neal’s Orlando tenure with a thud.
- #12
1995 Upper Deck #134 Rasheed Wallace Rookie Card
Rookie CardPSA 10 Value $40Total PSA Population 31PSA 10 Population 6PSA 10 Grade Rate 19.4% (Set Avg: 13.4%)The 1995-96 Washington Bullets overflowed with young talent.
That included two members of Michigan’s Fab Five, Juwan Howard and Chris Webber, and newly picked UNC star Rasheed Wallace.
There was, however, a problem with how the Bullets planned this out.
Howard, Webber, and Wallace were all natural power forwards.
Each had skill sets that allowed them to stretch past the role of a traditional four, but it still created a needless logjam in the rotation.
What resulted was an uneven 39-43 season and a playoff miss.
Wallace was the obvious third wheel, averaging 10.1 points and 4.7 rebounds in a sixth-man capacity.
When the three shared the floor, it just didn’t make sense.
And so, the Bullets punted after the year, hitching their wagon to the Michigan guys and sending Wallace out to Portland.
“I was mad as s*** when I got traded,” Wallace said later.
“I was the expendable one.”
- #13
1995 Upper Deck #294 Charles Barkley
PSA 10 Value $35Total PSA Population 8PSA 10 Population 0PSA 10 Grade Rate 0.0% (Set Avg: 13.4%) - #14
1995 Upper Deck #133 Jerry Stackhouse Rookie Card
Rookie CardPSA 10 Value $30Total PSA Population 24PSA 10 Population 6PSA 10 Grade Rate 25.0% (Set Avg: 13.4%)Jerry Stackhouse came into the league on a wave of hype, both earned and self-generated.
This was the time when each year a “new, improved Michael Jordan” hit the league.
Stackhouse was the guy in 1995-96, the #1 overall pick, and the man who was supposed to bring the Philadelphia 76ers back to prominence.
He called his shot early, too, claiming in multiple interviews that he was ready to take down Michael Jordan one-on-one as soon as the two met on court.
Oh, about that.
When the two met for the first time during the ’95-’96 campaign, Jordan feasted on the eager 21-year-old shooting guard, dropping 48 on his head and mugging the Sixers bench after every lesson he taught and shot he hit.
Jordan dismissed the kid in his trademark form after the game, offhandedly stating that “basketball taught (Stackhouse) a lesson.” It was a humbling moment in an otherwise splendid All-Rookie campaign for the Sixers’ new face.
- #15
1995 Upper Deck #181 Hakeem Olajuwon
PSA 10 Value $30Total PSA Population 6PSA 10 Population 1PSA 10 Grade Rate 16.7% (Set Avg: 13.4%)If the Seattle SuperSonics had crossed the Houston Rockets in the 1994 and 1995 NBA Playoff brackets, would history have been different?
Would it have been Shawn Kemp and the Sonics who took over the league in the absence of MJ?
The evidence seemed to support this.
Seattle always seemed to have the upper hand on Houston in head-to-head matchups, and Kemp seemed to be the only antidote for Hakeem Olajuwon in the Western Conference.
That’s what happened in the 1993 Playoffs when the Sonics dumped the Rockets in seven.
Seattle inexplicably imploded in the next two postseasons, though, gifting away First Round playoff wins to the underdog Nuggets and Lakers.
Seattle eventually righted the ship for the 1996 postseason, and they once again dumped the Rockets, this time in a four-game sweep.
Olajuwon was held below a double-double (18.3 ppg, 9.8 rpg) after averaging 26.9/10.9 during the regular season.
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