Actual counting NBA games begin later tonight, including a Blazers/Rockets game that I'll be attending in Portland. Here's my first pack from the new season, which also happens to be from the last licensed NBA Upper Deck base set.97 - Udonis Haslem (Key cog in the Miami Heat's championship run.)
165 - Greg Oden (Look out! Oden is threatening to have a huge year this year.)35 - Josh Howard
85 - Sasha Vujavic (Ugh, Lakers.)
62 - Yao Ming (Sorry... not this year.)48 - Richard Hamilton
128 - Chris Duhon (Duhon had the best season of his career last year with a dreadful team.)
134 - Russell Westbrook (I don't like UCLA and I don't like what they did to the Sonics.)
220 - B.J. Mullens Star Rookies (The third consecutive one-and-done Ohio State center, following Kosta Koufos and Oden.)
263 - Dominique Wilkins Immortals (As you can see here, Dominique played way back in the day before color TVs or cameras. He was known as the Human Reel-to-Reel.)5 - Marvin Williams
171 - Rashad McCants
139 - Earl Watson (Bleh, another ex-Sonic. I can't blame it on the players, though.)
143 - Jameer Nelson (Nelson also had a career year last year.)126 - James Posey (Posey was not the difference maker that the Hornets hoped he would be as they fell off a bit last year. I always thought he was pretty overrated when he played for Boston.)
94 - Mario Chalmers
70 - Troy Murphy124 - Tyson Chandler
