autographed Phoenix suns basketball

[DiamondBacks5117]

Asking 50 dollars the only sigs i can make out are mitch richmonds and mark wests. I tried taking pictures of other sigs Pm or resond to thread if interested thx.

 

[Linderbee]

You can't make out Kevin Johnson's?

edit: I don't see Mitch Richmond anywhere...and I don't think he ever played for the Suns.

 

[Linderbee]

Or Jeff Hornacek?

 

[Linderbee]

The other one is Kenny Gattison.

 

[DiamondBacks5117]

I know i didnt think richmond ever played for the suns eithier but i can put more pictures. no interest i guess than. thx 4 makin out the sigs.

 

[Linderbee]

Oh, I'd be interested if I could afford it Just really penny-pinching right now.

 

[DiamondBacks5117]

whose on the bottom picture? Is that richmond or am i reading that wrong?

 

[TheHopToad]

I would guess the ball was from the 1988-89 Suns team. That was the only year that Gattison, West, KJ, and Hornacek were all on the team together. Mitch Richmond never played for the Suns, so perhaps the autographs were obtained at a game against the Warriors.

The name above Richmond's is cut off, so I can't really tell who it might be. Looks like it starts with a K or R. Possibly Ralph Sampson from the 88-89 Warriors?

 

[Linderbee]

whose on the bottom picture? Is that richmond or am i reading that wrong?

It is Richmond--he added that pic after I had posted that I didn't see it.

 

[Shane]

Why would KJ sign the ball #11

 

[TheHopToad]

Why would KJ sign the ball #11

Ah-ha! This is an important detail I didn't pick up on earlier that leads me to revise and narrow my guess as to when the ball was signed.

I now think it was at the end of the 87-88 season. KJ was traded from Cleveland, along with West, on 2-25-88 and wore #11 the last two months of the season before switching to #7 for the 88-89 season (he wore #11 in Cleveland).

Gattison is listed as playing for the Suns during the 86-87, and 88-89 seasons, but not at all in the 87-88 seasojn, so this leads me to believe he was injured, but still with the team. Hornacek was still there also.

Therefore, the ball had to have been signed between Feb 25th of 1988 and the end of that season. If the signatures were all collected at the same time, including Richmond's, then the ball was likely signed at one of the Warriors' visits to Phoenix on either March 30th or April 19th.