Sure, I would’ve liked higher grade. But I’m really not complaining. The execution of this card by Panini is, in fact, flawless!. Magic Johnson, in color over faded white background, with gold foil is pure… Well… Magic! Nice negative white space for clean, bold, bright signature. And a nice patch window, which contains a game used part of his jersey nameplate. One of the cleanest looking Magic cards I have.

In a few posts recently, I have been sharing some of the great sports themed original artwork by the great Adam Lister. I purchased three original ink and watercolor paintings that are baseball card sized recently… This one is a print, an iconic image of Lakers great, Kobe Bryant! Being a print, they are still limited and numbered however, there are significantly less expensive than original paintings. This gives an opportunity for a collectors to buy really cool artwork, especially framed nicely, and at a reasonable price.