1981 - 82 Fleer NBA Basketball Stickers

Fleer issued its final set of NBA Basketball Logo Stickers during the 1981-1982 season. The stickers were once again a repeat of the 1979-80 and 1980-81 designs with the team records on the tops of the stickers.


Thanks to Fleer expert Barry for this scan of the complete set of all 23 teams. The 8 teams shown on the top of the picture with blue/red/yellow borders could once again be found with all 3 border color variations.

The stickers had puzzle backs which formed a puzzle of the World Champion 1980 - 1981 Boston Celtics:

Thanks once again to Fleer Sticker Project contributor Craig for this picture of the complete puzzle.

Fleer did not repeat the cartoon backs from the previous year, so all sticker backs are puzzle backs.

There were 2 different wrappers for this series:

And finally, here's a picture of the box:


After this set, Fleer took a break from Basketball for a few years, before coming back in 1986 with a set that had an iconic card you may have seen before:


Unfortunately even though Fleer became very involved in the Basketball market starting in the mid 1980's through the early 2000's, they never again issued any team logo stickers.