Nate Williams Basketball Card
date: label: date made
content: 1973
label: copyright date
content: 1969
name: label: publisher
content: NBA Properties, Inc.
label: publisher
content: Topps Chewing Gum
label: depicted
content: Williams, Nate
label: maker
content: NBA Properties, Inc.
label: maker
content: Topps Chewing Gum
notes: label: Description
content: This Nate Williams basketball card is number 54 in a series of 264 manufactured by the Topps Company Inc. of New York, New York for the 1973-1974 NBA season. The front of the card features a posed picture of the Kansas City-Omaha Royals forward. The card’s reverse features a small cartoon image illustrating the factoid that “Nate is known as ‘Iron Man’,” as well as a short biographical sketch and career statistics.
label: Description
content: Prior to 1971, college underclassmen were not allowed to enter the NBA draft. The 1971 Supreme Court case of <i>Haywood v. NBA</i> granted underclassman eligibility in case of economic hardship. The ruling resulted in a supplemental draft, with Williams, an underclassman at Utah State, chosen first by the Cincinnati Royals. Williams would go on to average 12 points over this eight-year career with the Royals, Kansas City-Omaha Kings, New Orleans Jazz, and Golden State Warriors.
topic: label: name of sport or game
content: Basketball
label: level of sport
content: Professional
label: web subject
content: Sports
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
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content: Basketball Cards
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0568.052
label: accession number
content: 1982.0568
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0568.052
objectType: label: Object Name
content: card, basketball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 8.89 cm x 6.35 cm