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Hello 👋 After a rigorous search, we now possess a 1990 NBA Hoops Mark Jackson #205 trading card featuring Mark Jackson of the New York Knicks with The Menendez Brothers featured in the background. The card is a 1st Edition parallel/variety with a miscut feature graded PSA 8(MC), making it extremely unique, very rare, and spanning a wide range of collectors. This card features the Menendez Brothers in the card/picture, indicating a significant moment or event related to the player or team plus the Americans affected by their actions during that season. Graded by PSA as 8(MC), this collectible item offers a piece of basketball history from the 1990-91 NBA season. Reference Here: Joseph Lyle Menendez (born January 10, 1968) and Erik Galen Menendez (born November 27, 1970), commonly referred to as the Menendez brothers, are American brothers convicted of killing their parents, José and Mary Louise "Kitty" Menendez, at their Beverly Hills home in 1989. More than 35 years after killing their parents, Erik and Lyle Menendez have been recommended for re-sentencing by the Los Angeles County District Attorney. The 1989 case shocked the nation, with claims during the trial that the brothers were abused by their father physically and sexually met with scepticism at the time, while their $US700,000 ($1 million) spending spree after the killings was suggested as an apparent lack of concern about what they had done. Amongst the spending spree — which included new cars, new clothes, and new watches — was a purchase of courtside tickets to watch the NBA's New York Knicks in action at Madison Square Garden. It was a decision that would immortalise the brothers in the basketball world in a grim coincidence only noticed decades later. Crime writer Stephen Zerance, knowing the story about how the brothers had attended the basketball after the killings, went on a search in 2018 to see if he could find them in the background of action photos. "My friend and I, who is also a true-crime head, knew that the brothers went on a lavish spending spree after they got an insurance payout from their parent's death," he told basketball magazine SLAM in January, 2019. "They bought a lot of things — tennis lessons, Rolexes, clothes, businesses, restaurants, cars. Then we noticed they bought courtside tickets to the Knicks at Madison Square Garden. "When Getty Images didn't have [any photos], it was like a light bulb. There are so many junk [basketball] cards on eBay." Hunting through the web for basketball cards from the 1990 season, Zerance stumbled upon one of point guard Mark Jackson. In the background, to the left of his hip, were the brothers watching the game, pictured after they had killed their parents and before their eventual arrest.