You can’t fully understand this card without reading… This link about the 1990-91 Fleer set as a whole.
This card, the #63 Tim Hardaway rookie card, is an important one. The 1990-91 Fleer set was quite popular when it was released, and I imagine that this card helped contribute to that initial popularity. The back of the card reminds us just how solid Tim Hardaway’s rookie season was. He was 9th in the league in assists and 10th in the league in steals. There’s also a great reminder that Tim Hardaway, at 6′ even and Nate “Tiny” Archibald, who was 6′ 1″, both went to UTEP. This university must have had a knack for identifying talented guards around 6 feet in height. Tim Hardaway surpassed Archibald as the university’s all-time leading scorer.
Junk sets are known for errors, variations and inconsistencies, like the Michael Jordan “no line” variation. This Tim Hardaway card is one of the uncorrected errors in the set. His birthday is listed as September 12, 1966 but it should be September 1, 1966. This error is present in the 1990-91 NBA Hoops set as well for some reason.
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