NBA Poker Chips - Limited Edition Topps NBA Poker Chips - Only on eBay

The NBA - its fantastic! To much fanfare, the NBA and Topps released a set of 200 NBA poker chips including great like Larry Bird, current all-stars like Steve Nash, and even a complete rookies set of poker chips. The NBA Poker Chips are fan favorites and were released during the NBA All Star weekend. Difficult to obtain, they are all over eBay and can be bought in random sets, individually are as a complete set. A complete set will cost about $175-$225 and comes with 200 chips and usually with a box. Topps also has a complete checklist of players - which is also available on eBay and/or comes with a complete set. Below are some excerpts from press and blog attention that the poker chips have gotten:

From ESPN's Sports Guy:

The "Rocky IV" Trading Cards Award for "Best collectible gimmick"
To Topps for coming up with NBA poker chips, selling like hot cakes at five-to-a-pack for $5 in the collectibles section of the NBA Jam Session. It seems like they're still working out the kinks with this idea -- for instance, you can't purchase an entire set -- but there's some serious potential here. Could you put a price on somebody calling a $5 ante, following by you deciding whether to raise with a $25 Larry Bird chip or two $5 chips of Pierce and KG ... or just throw in five $1 chips of Milt Palacio, Darko Milicic, Mario Kasun, Walter McCarty and Jose Calderon? These are the decisions I want to make when I'm playing poker.

Applying the "How much would you pay game?" -- I think I would spend $250 for a complete set of NBA poker chips. Doesn't that sound 10 times more fun than trading cards? What do you do with trading cards, anyway? What purpose do they serve?

NBA Puts its Logo on Poker Chips By Michael Hiestand, USA TODAY

Finally, there will be an official NBA poker chip. And now poker players can deal NBA players.

At the recent Super Show, a trade show for sports gear, the league introduced plans for the $130 chip sets that sport NBA logos and come in their own carrying case. And the new $10 playing card sets will bear likenesses of NBA players....

The NBA isn't the first league to have its logos on playing cards: The NFL and Major League Baseball sell cards, good for poker, emblazoned with team logos. But the NFL, says spokesman Brian McCarthy, has a "stringent gambling policy that would preclude" putting its logos on poker chips.

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