I wanted to post here for any one who has downloaded my baseball cards a link to my basketball cards which I have been creating for the past 2 1/2 months. I will be returning to baseball card creating this week. Thanks again for all the great images; I have continued to check each day during this latest project and hope to have a new baseball card update in the coming weeks.Notes for the basketball cards can be found below.
I have uploaded the 10 seasons (ABA-1970-71, 1971-72, 1972-73, 1973-74; NBA-1968-69, 1969-70, 1970-71, 1971-72, 1972-73, 1973-74). In addition to completing the new project with several thousand cards, I also updated the old one with several hundred new cards. I removed the uploads for the old set replacing them with fully updated zips.
Game Front
To recap, the old set was created using the 1971-72 Topps Basketball Template; the new set uses the 1968 Topps Football Template which I think has been enhanced by having them color-coded using team colors. In all, there is a total of 15,015 cards between the two sets, divided into two naming formats; one for both Actionpc Basketball and Cactus League Pro Basketball and the other for TMsg Basketball. For those who downloaded my basketball cards previously, I implemented a change this time by removing the year from the card names. This allowed me to use the same cards for both ActionPC and Cactus League Basketball which didn’t have the year option. I also made another charge which I also edited with the old set. I created cards using Muslim names beginning with the season the player made the change. Although Basketball Reference does not note when the changes became effective, thanks to Cactus League Basketball I was able to name each player correctly for the various seasons. Using the four Muslim players who played during this era, I have illustrated the naming formats below. Incidentally, Don Smith did not change his name until 1974-75 which I am not going to be doing. In fact, other than updates, I am done with Basketball.
Actionpc/Cactus Format (underscore):
Lew_Alcindor (1969-70, 1970-71)
Kareem_Abdul-Jabbar (1971-72, 1972-73, 1973-74)
Warren_Armstrong (1970-71)
Warren_Jabali (1971-72, 1972-73, 1973-74)
TMsg Format (space):
Walt Hazzard (1968-69, 1969-70, 1970-71, 1971-72)
Mahdi Abdul-Rahman (1972-73, 1973-74)
Wally Jones (1968-69, 1969-70, 1970-71, 1971-72)
Wali Jones (1972-73)
Note: For players with multiple image options; a suffix of 1, 2, 3 is added.
I would like to thank Mark L (Lebby) and Mark S (FrostyMalt) for their time consuming efforts to colorize black and white images. Mark S created the templates and Mark L also provided multiple extracted images for the nearly 2000 players who played during the 10 seasons with our every attempt to include images for each uniform worn when available. Without their help, I would not have even attempted this new set.
There should be a card for every player who played in at least one game during the 10 seasons. If you happen to have a better image than what I have, please let me know. With any luck, I might just get a chance to use these cards for some games using the three simulations noted above. If you notice any errors, please let me know. It is very possible that a player name, position or naming format could have been messed up.
Enjoy