There’s nothing like scoring a rookie card of an NBA legend. Especially when you’re the legend on the card. Spurs great George “The Iceman” Gervin did just that when he ripped open an ...

Topps recently posted a reel of Spurs great George Gervin, left, pulling his rookie card, right, from a pack of 1974 Topps Basketball cards. Screenshot and Express-News file art.

The 50-year-old card pack included Bob McAdoo, Rick Adelman and Kareem Abdul Jabbar player cards. But as Gervin revealed the cards to the camera, he discovered the pack contained his Spurs rookie ...

40 Years Ago Today (April 9, 1978) The Closest Scoring Race in NBA History; Gervin's 63 beats Thompson's 73; George Gervin 27.22 ppg; David Thompson 27.15 ppg; "It's not too often you have two ...

NBA 75: When the Spurs traded George Gervin, the face of a franchise HE HAD COMPETED with both of them in the summer schoolyard leagues in Detroit. Mel Daniels, Maurice McHartley and John Brisker ...

The Spurs traded George Gervin to the Bulls in 1985, the start of a rebuild and the end of the Iceman Era in San Antonio, The Sporting News wrote.