1985-86 Star Company Basketball Cards

With the Star Company beginning to focus on one player sets of cards - including in other sports like baseball - this would be the last of the great Star Co. basketball card sets (Fleer would get the license for 1986).

Other sets that are not part of the 172 card set include the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar set of 18 cards, the Coach's set of 10 cards, the Crunch 'n Munch set of 11 cards (very rare), the Last 11 Rookies of the Year set, the Lite Beer All-Stars (13 cards), Schick Legends game participants (24 cards), an All-Rookie team set of 11, the "Lakers Champs" set (which actually featured photos from the championship series), a set of Michael Jordan, and a Best of the New/Best of the Old set of 8 cards given to dealers and nearly impossible to find now.

The Star Company also made 5x7 sets of Court Kings for the second straight year (see Magic Johnson below) and the Gatorade-sponsored Slam Dunk Contest (see Michael Jordan, below). Because Charles Barkley pulled out of the competition at the last minute (Terence Stansbury made the most of his chance to replace him), the Barkley card was pulled. The Barkley cards entered the hobby years after they were printed.

There were also two sets printed in 1986 (on the same sheet) but not released until the early 1990s. They were a Magic Johnson set and a "Best of the Best" set. These were sold as complete sheets and later cut by the hobbyists/dealers who bought them, thus there are no bags of these sets (or at least their shouldn't be - you never can tell what the Star Co. did at the time or later).

While the Star Company did not change their design at all through their three years of exclusive NBA sets, they are very colorful and very collectible and the 5x7 cards in particular look very impressive in person.

1 Maurice Cheeks
2 Charles Barkley
3 Julius Erving
4 Clemon Johnson
5 Bobby Jones
6 Moses Malone
7 Sedale Threatt
8 Andrew Toney
9 Leon Wood
10 Isiah Thomas
11 Kent Benson
12 Earl Cureton
13 Vinnie Johnson
14 Bill Laimbeer
15 John Long
16 Rick Mahorn
17 Kelly Tripucka
18 Hakeem Olajuwon
19 Allen Leavell
20 Lewis Lloyd
21 John Lucas
22 Rodney McCray
23 Robert Reid
24 Ralph Sampson
25 Mitchell Wiggins
26 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
27 Michael Cooper
28 Magic Johnson
29 Mitch Kupchak
30 Maurice Lucas
31 Kurt Rambis
32 Byron Scott
33 James Worthy
34 Larry Nance
35 Alvan Adams
36 Walter Davis
37 James Edwards
38 Jay Humphries
39 Charles Pittman
40 Rick Robey
41 Mike Sanders
42 Dominique Wilkins
43 Scott Hastings
44 Eddie Johnson
45 Cliff Levingston
46 Tree Rollins
47 Glenn Rivers
48 Kevin Willis
49 Randy Wittman
50 Alex English
51 Wayne Cooper
52 T.R. Dunn
53 Mike Evans
54 Lafayette Lever
55 Calvin Natt
56 Dan Schayes
57 Elston Turner
58 Buck Williams
59 Otis Birdsong
60 Darwin Cook
61 Darryl Dawkins
62 Mike Gminski
63 Mickey Johnson
64 Mike O'Koren
65 Michael Ray Richardson
66 Tom Chambers
67 Gerald Henderson
68 Tim McCormick
69 Jack Sikma
70 Ricky Sobers
71 Danny Vranes
72 Al Wood
73 Danny Young
74 Reggie Theus
75 Larry Drew
76 Eddie Johnson
77 Mark Olberding
78 LaSalle Thompson
79 Otis Thorpe
80 Mike Woodson
81 Clark Kellogg
82 Quinn Buckner
83 Vern Fleming
84 Bill Garnett
85 Terence Stansbury
86 Steve Stipanovich

87 Herb Williams
88 Marques Johnson
89 Michael Cage
90 Franklin Edwards
91 Cedric Maxwell
92 Derek Smith
93 Rory White
94 Jamaal Wilkes
95 Larry Bird
96 Danny Ainge
97 Dennis Johnson
98 Kevin McHale
99 Robert Parish
100 Jerry Sichting
101 Bill Walton
102 Scott Wedman
103 Kiki Vandeweghe
104 Sam Bowie
105 Kenny Carr
106 Clyde Drexler
107 Jerome Kersey
108 Jim Paxson
109 Mychal Thompson
110 Gus Williams
111 Darren Daye
112 Jeff Malone
113 Tom McMillen
114 Cliff Robinson
115 Dan Roundfield
116 Jeff Ruland
117 Michael Jordan
118 Gene Banks
119 Dave Corzine
120 Quintin Dailey
121 George Gervin
122 Jawann Oldham
123 Orlando Woolridge
124 Terry Cummings
125 Craig Hodges
126 Alton Lister
127 Paul Mokeski
128 Sidney Moncrief
129 Ricky Pierce
130 Paul Pressey
131 Purvis Short
132 Joe Barry Carroll
133 Lester Conner
134 Sleepy Floyd
135 Geoff Huston
136 Larry Smith
137 Jerome Whitehead
138 Adrian Dantley
139 Mitchell Anderson
140 Thurl Bailey
141 Mark Eaton
142 Rickey Green
143 Darrell Griffith
144 John Stockton
145 Artis Gilmore
146 Marc Iavaroni
147 Steve Johnson
148 Mike Mitchell
149 Johnny Moore
150 Alvin Robertson
151 Jon Sundvold
152 Lloyd Free
153 John Bagley
154 Johnny Davis
155 Roy Hinson
156 Phil Hubbard
157 Ben Poquette
158 Mel Turpin
159 Rolando Blackman
160 Mark Aguirre
161 Brad Davis
162 Dale Ellis
163 Derek Harper
164 Sam Perkins
165 Jay Vincent
166 Patrick Ewing
167 Bill Cartwright
168 Pat Cummings
169 Ernie Grunfeld
170 Rory Sparrow
171 Trent Tucker
172 Darrell Walker

1985-86 Star Company Basketball Cards

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