What 90s Basketball Cards are Worth Money?

If you’re a 90s kid like me, or one who fell in love with basketball during the 90s,  you’re probably missing the golden age of NBA.

You’re probably also sitting on a huge number of 90s NBA cards and wondering if they’re worth anything.

Well, in this article, we’re going to see what 90s Basketball cards are worth money today.

Important Information: The Sport Card Market is incredibly volitile and fluctuates a lot. If I was to give price ranges of cards and players, I’d almost have to update this article every day to make sure prices are current and on trend. So, I won’t do that. However, we’ll look at a few tried and tested strategies for collecting with 90s cards.

What 90s Basketball Cards are Worth Money: The Things to Look Our For

Before you head up to your attic and see if you’ve still got those boxes of NBA cards in a shoebox somewhere, you need to know that with cards, old doesn’t always mean rare or valuable.

This is espescially true with cards from the 90s. This is due to something many call the “Junk Wax” era.

Basically, cards were over-printed to meet rising demands when cards became popular. That means there were far too many cards printed, and the prices remain low over time.

With that in mind though, here’s a few things to look for when seeing what 90s NBA cards are worth money.

1. The Best Players

Obviosuly, when it comes to sports cards, the best players sell well. People are more likely to collect the best players – and it’s the 90s stars that many collectors had on their walls growing up.

So, when looking through your old cards, you need to make sure you’re on the hunt for the best players of the 90s.

If you’re not working with cards of the very best players from that era, you’ll struggle to find buyers for your cards.

For example, look at this Michael Jordan card from a 1990 SkyBox (that set holds a special place in my heart – they’re just so goddam pretty).