Gary Payton, 1994-95 Fleer Pro-Visions (Basketball Barf Art Week No 3)
Name: Gary Payton
Team: Seattle SuperSonics
Position: Point Guard
Value of card: A twamp sack of bammer
Key 1993-94 stat: Zero gloves worn during games
Rumor fits like a glove: In the mid-1990s, underground Bay Area hip-hop artists rapped a lot about cars, weed, crime and Gary Payton. E-40, B-Legit, Too Short and others flowed on songs that name-dropped Payton, an Oakland native. In many of these songs, the rappers claimed to have been smoking pot with Payton. Was this true? Doesn’t matter. What matters is that the artist responsible for this card was obviously a big mid-1990s underground Bay Area rap fan. How do we know that? Let’s start with “smoking bomb” being a slang term for inhaling marijuana and this card featured a “smoking bomb” basketball. Then there’s the environment surrounding Payton. It looks like something you’d see in a crappy blacklight poster at a head shop. Payton, himself, is sporting an out-of-it, mouth-hanging-open look he never displayed on the court; it’s a look that can only be the result of heavy pot use. And, of course, there’s all the green. We get it, Fleer artist, you like puffin’ on the sticky-icky while holla’ing at the homeboy Gary Payton. No doubt.
Source: http://www.baseballcardbust.com/2013/06/gary-payton-1994-95-fleer-pro-visions.html
