1985 Star Lite All-Stars

October 20, 2026

#2 Larry Bird (raw)

#4 Michael Jordan (raw)

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The 1985 Star Lite All-Stars set honors the 1985 NBA All-Star Game in Indianapolis with the ten starters, both head coaches and a checklist. The cards have dark blue borders and a Lite beer logo, and use the same player photos as the 1985 Crunch 'N Munch All-Stars. There are 13 numbers but 14 cards, because #4 Michael Jordan comes in two versions.

The set at a glance

Cards	14
Numbering	1-13, plus #4A
Variations	1 (#4 / #4A Jordan)
Michael Jordan cards	2 (#4 and #4A)
Released	1985, for All-Star Weekend
Packaging	One sealed bag, #1 checklist on top
Sets printed (est.)	4,000-5,000 (Basketball Gold)
Design	Dark blue borders, Lite beer logo
Sister set	1985 Crunch 'N Munch All-Stars (same photos, no coaches)

The key cards

Michael Jordan: #4 (East) is one of Jordan's first-year subset cards, alongside his Crunch 'N Munch #4 and Gatorade #7. Basketball Gold stresses it is not a rookie card. It comes in two versions, #4 and #4A (see below).
The other starters: East #2 Larry Bird, #3 Julius Erving, #5 Moses Malone and #6 Isiah Thomas (a second-year subset card, per Basketball Gold). West #8 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, #9 Adrian Dantley, #10 George Gervin, #11 Magic Johnson and #12 Ralph Sampson.
Coaches: #7 K.C. Jones (East) and #13 Pat Riley (West). These two cards are what the Crunch 'N Munch set does not have.
Variation: #4A Michael Jordan, the version where his hair touches the top border.

How the set was issued

Basketball Gold files the set with Star's All-Star subsets, made to mark a single event. The ten players are the starters from the February 10, 1985 All-Star Game. The East comes first (#2-6) and the West second (#8-12), each followed by its coach.

starbasketballcards.com says the sets were handed out to fans at the All-Star festivities in Indianapolis. They also reached the hobby: Steve Taft recalls ordering batches of Lite All-Stars as a dealer. Each set came in one sealed bag with the checklist on top. Basketball Gold estimates 4,000 to 5,000 sets were made (starbasketballcards.com says 4,000).

Lite and Crunch 'N Munch

Basketball Gold calls Crunch 'N Munch the same set with the same photos, minus the two coaches. Crunch 'N Munch was made for the snack's popcorn boxes, in a smaller run (Basketball Gold estimates 3,500).

Because the Lite set slots K.C. Jones in at #7, the numbers drift apart after #6. Kareem is Lite #8 but Crunch #7, and Magic is Lite #11 but Crunch #10. Jordan is #4 in both.

The #4 and #4A Jordan

How to tell them apart: on #4A Jordan's hair touches the top border. On #4 there is a gap above his head.
Other tells: Basketball Gold says #4A always has a light blue dot in the top left border area. #4 has letters missing in "NBA" on the back left edge, and a little missing from the copyright circle.
Neither is rarer: Basketball Gold says both are true variations and both have come out of sealed bags. Only #4A got its own registry entry, after a number of both had already been graded as #4.
Read the pop report with care: a head-touching card can carry a plain #4 label. Some were graded before #4A had its own entry, and today the submitter must ask for the variation label. Basketball Gold warns that low #4A counts do not mean #4A is scarcer.

Fakes and Shop at Home cards

Counterfeit Jordan: a fake Lite Jordan is known. starbasketballcards.com says its quickest tell is even more space above Jordan's head than on either real version.
Print details: on the fake, the name and "East All-Star" lettering are smaller, and the name looks thicker. Under a loupe the printing is fuzzy. On a real card the lines in the "Lite" and "beer" lettering are crisp and distinct.
Shop at Home: in 1997 Robert Levin sold new, backdated sets on the Shop at Home TV channel. That issue included a white-bordered Lite All-Stars set. Steve Taft recalls it dated 1986, while starbasketballcards.com lists it as 1985. Taft calls these unlicensed fantasy sets, not copies of the originals.
Which photos: Taft says most Shop at Home Lite cards use different photos. The Jordan looks like the same photo, cropped differently. The real set has dark blue borders.
Not a Type II set: Type IIs are limited to 1985-86 #95-172, the 1986 Jordan set and 1986 Best of the New.

What collectors should know

Condition: Basketball Gold rates the set a little tougher than Crunch 'N Munch. The blue borders show edge wear, and bleeding can reach the card surface.
Backs: the backs list All-Star appearances instead of stats. Basketball Gold notes the #1 checklist back uses black type, while the other cards use blue.
Sealed bags: An original sealed bag proves the cards are original, not that they are mint. Resealed bags exist, and GAI bag grades rate the plastic and seals, not the cards.
Grading: BGS has graded Star since December 2008. PSA added the set in March 2023, listed as "1985 Star Miller Lite." CGC began grading 1980s Star in May 2025. We have not confirmed it takes this set.