1983-84 Star Sixers Champs

October 20, 2026

#3 Clash of the Titans, Malone vs. Jabbar (raw)

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1983 Star Sixers Champs #2 Billy Cunningham NM to NM-MT — #2 Billy Cunningham NM to NM-MT
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1983 Star Sixers Champs #5 Philly Super-Sub Richardson NM to NM-MT — #5 Philly Super-Sub Richardson NM to NM-MT
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1983 Star Sixers Champs #6 Laker Killer Andrew Toney NM to NM-MT — #6 Laker Killer Andrew Toney NM to NM-MT
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1983 Star Sixers Champs #7 Game 1 Boxscore NM to NM-MT — #7 Game 1 Boxscore NM to NM-MT
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1983 Star Sixers Champs #8 Secretary of Defense Jones NM to NM-MT — #8 Secretary of Defense Jones NM to NM-MT
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1983 Star Sixers Champs #9 Mo Can Go Maurice Cheeks NM to NM-MT — #9 Mo Can Go Maurice Cheeks NM to NM-MT
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1983 Star Sixers Champs #11 Toney on the Drive NM to NM-MT — #11 Toney on the Drive NM to NM-MT
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1983 Star Sixers Champs #12 Game 2 Boxscore NM to NM-MT — #12 Game 2 Boxscore NM to NM-MT
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The 1983-84 Star Sixers Champs set has 25 cards and tells the story of the 1983 NBA Finals, Philadelphia's four-game sweep of the Lakers. It is the first of Star's three championship sets, ahead of the 1984 Celtics Champs and the 1985-86 Lakers Champs. Julius Erving is on five cards, Moses Malone on six, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar turns up on #3.

The set at a glance

Cards	25
Numbering	1-25
Released	1983 (Beckett: late summer 1983); "STAR '84" logo on the fronts
Sets printed (est.)	10,000 (Basketball Gold, Beckett and starbasketballcards.com)
Rookie cards	None
Design	Red borders on the fronts, red printing on the backs

Card by card

Names follow the checklist; captions in quotes are as printed on copies we have handled.

#	Card
1	Moses Malone (checklist)
2	Billy Cunningham, coach
3	"Clash of the Titans": Moses Malone vs. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
4	Julius Erving in action
5	"Philly Super-Sub": Clint Richardson
6	"Laker Killer": Andrew Toney
7	Game 1 box score: Phila. 113, L.A. 107
8	"Secretary of Defense": Bobby Jones
9	"Mo Can Go": Maurice Cheeks
10	Julius Erving in action
11	"Toney on the Drive": Andrew Toney
12	Game 2 box score: Phila. 103, L.A. 93
13	"Serious Sixers" (pre-game lineup)
14	Moses Malone in action
15	"Bench Strength": Clemon Johnson
16	"One Mo Time": Maurice Cheeks
17	Game 3 box score: Phila. 111, L.A. 94
18	Julius Erving in action
19	Bobby Jones, Sixth Man of the Year
20	Moses Malone in action
21	"World Champs": Game 4 box score
22	Julius Erving: series stats
23	Moses Malone: "Philly in a Sweep"
24	Julius Erving: "Basking in Glory"
25	Moses Malone, Finals MVP

The series ran May 22 to May 31, 1983. Philadelphia won the first two games at home and the last two in Los Angeles, the fourth 115-108, and finished the playoffs 12-1. Moses Malone, who had predicted "Fo, Fo, Fo," was named Finals MVP.

How the set was made

Star, Robert Levin's small Pennsylvania company, held the NBA license from 1983 to 1986 and sold most of its cards in sealed polybags, one team or subset per bag. Basketball Gold calls the Sixers Champs "the first of these subsets," part of a run in which Star commemorated the champion three years in a row. Beckett dates the release to late summer 1983; the fronts carry the "STAR '84" logo at top right. starbasketballcards.com describes the backs as plainer than usual for Star.

Beckett says most of the distribution was done at the Spectrum, the 76ers' home arena, and starbasketballcards.com says the same. Print-run estimates agree for once: Basketball Gold, Beckett and starbasketballcards.com all put it at about 10,000, double Basketball Gold's 5,000 for the Celtics and Lakers Champs sets.

What collectors should know

Fakes: it is not one of the Type II sets (those are limited to 1985-86 #95-172, the 1986 Jordan set and 1986 Best of the New).
Uncut sheets: the sheet in the gallery below prints two Sixers Champs sets alongside the 1983-84 All-Rookies.
Grading: BGS has graded Star since December 2008. PSA added the set in March 2023 as "1983-84 Star Sixers Champions." CGC began grading 1980s Star in May 2025; its announcement publishes no set list.

The key cards

Julius Erving: five cards (#4, #10, #18, #22 and #24), as counted by Basketball Gold.
#25 Moses Malone, Finals MVP: the set's closing card. starbasketballcards.com notes the same image was reused in the 1985 Crunch 'N Munch set.
#3 Clash of the Titans: Malone against Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the set's only Kareem.