1974 Fleer Real Cloth Basketball Patches Pack

A year after Topps inserted NBA & ABA logo stickers in their packs of Basketball cards, Fleer got into the Basketball market with a set of NBA cloth patches. Unlike the Topps sticker set from 1973-74, this set was exclusively an NBA set, so no ABA teams are included.

Each team had 2 stickers - a plain logo patch and another patch with the team's logo on a basketball with the words "Property Of". In addition, there were 2 NBA logo patches.

The packs also included a card set entitled "The Shots".

As was the case with Fleer's Baseball and Football cloth patch releases, the cards that were included in the packs (to give the packs a solid piece of cardboard inside to keep the pack from being too flimsy given the cloth patches are not very rigid) are never mentioned on the wrappers.

1974 was the only year that Fleer issued cloth patch Basketball stickers. Fleer would return in a few years with Hi-Gloss Basketball stickers.