Underrated rookie card from an iconic set!

Here are the career highlights of Clyde “The Glide” Drexler, one of the NBA’s greatest shooting guards:

• NBA Champion (1995) – Won with the Houston Rockets alongside Hakeem Olajuwon.

• 10× NBA All-Star (1986, 1988–1994, 1996, 1997)

• All-NBA Teams – 5 selections:

  • First Team (1992)

  • Second Team (1988, 1991)

  • Third Team (1990, 1995)

• NBA’s 50th & 75th Anniversary Teams – Honored as one of the greatest players in league history.

• Portland Trail Blazers All-Time Leading Scorer (until Damian Lillard passed him).

• Career Stats – 20.4 points, 6.1 rebounds, 5.6 assists, and 2.0 steals per game over 15 seasons (1983–1998).

• Hall of Fame Inductee (2004) – Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

• Olympic Gold Medalist (1992) – Member of the legendary “Dream Team” in Barcelona.

• College Career – Starred at the University of Houston as part of Phi Slama Jama with Hakeem Olajuwon, reaching two NCAA Finals.

• No. 22 Jersey Retired by both the Portland Trail Blazers and Houston Rockets.

The 1986-87 Fleer basketball set is iconic. Mostly because no major brand had produced NBA trading cards for quite some time, there are an abundance of rookies in the set. Clearly, the most famous card in the set is the iconic Michael Jordan rookie card however the set also contain rookie cards of Isaiah Thomas, Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Hakeem Olajuwon, Clyde, Drexler, Dominique, Wilkins, Chris Mullen, Danny Ange, and many others. Thomas was a national championship-winning point guard for my Indiana Hoosiers and went on to have a Hall of Fame career has the starting point guard for the Pistons.

The most well recognized and loved basketball set of all time is likely the 1986-87 Fleer. Containing rookie cards, including Michael Jordan, the set restarted the basketball card collecting craze. Im trying to get all the major rookie autographs of this set. This is one of Isiah Thomas autograph. I thought this had a good chance of PSA 7 or 8 but still pretty happy to have this one. Thomas won a national championship with the Indiana Hoosiers before leading the bad boy Detroit Pistons to two more titles in his NBA career. His in the NBA Hall of Fame and often forgotten compared to the other big stars in the 80s and 90s.

I posted my Star Isiah Thomas autographed rookie a couple days ago. This is the more iconic version of his rookie card. Clearly, it’s more well known, however, I prefer the Star rookie. Still, this is an amazing piece. He won an NCAA championship and a couple NBA championships and is firmly in the Hall of Fame. I’m still surprised that he’s not more collected in the hobby. Isiah could do it all, and had an amazing basketball IQ, passing, and scoring skills.

Clearly, the 1986-87 Fleer set as iconic due to the Michael Jordan rookie. However, the set contains absurd number of rookies in addition to Jordan because there were no commercially available pack pulled rookie for a few years. This that includes Charles Barkley, Hakeem Olajuwon, Karl Malone, Clyd Drexler, and many others! I love in-person, vintage autographed cards, and this Charles Barkley autograph rookie is in fantastic condition. I thought it was a PSA 8 with an outside chance of a 9, but here we are.