AJ Dybantsa's Flagship rookie is a great raw play before the slabs pile up
Before you mail that $8 Dybantsa to PSA, Cooper Flagg's 14,664 gems would like a word.
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Luka Dončić's Silver Prizm rookie holds near $1,800 as his hot start continues
His Silver Prizm PSA 10 sells for $1,860, while the base Prizm PSA 10 holds near $200.
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Where I'd Buy a Michael Jordan Card at Every Budget Right Now
Black Friday came early for Jordan collectors, with most of his weekly sellers marked down in October from the $25 SP1 to the PSA 8 rookie.
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Chet Holmgren's Prizm Silver is cheap enough to buy through his knee injury
His Silver PSA 10 sells for about $155, less than teammate Jalen Williams' at about $220.
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Stephen Curry's Prestige rookie is a PSA 10 nearly half the time it's graded
A raw 2009 Prestige #207 sells for about $145, against about $825 for one in a PSA 10 holder.
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Stephen Curry's 2009 Topps rookie runs ahead of his Wilkins milestone
His PSA 9 jumped from about $4,400 in July to $6,400 in August, well before Friday's milestone.
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Ty Jerome is scoring like a star on a $10 rookie card
He opened with 45 points, then scored 15 and 10 in his last two before sitting out with a sore back.
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PrizePicks says a $25 pack hit Dylan Harper's $2,880,000 1/1, leaving two Debut Patch chases
If 9 of PrizePicks' 10 launch Grails are left and each is equally likely, our math puts a $25 pack at about 1 in 10.8 million for the Cooper Flagg or Kon Knueppel Debut Patch 1/1.
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Cooper Flagg rookies pay off in PSA's $40 Value tier while Caitlin Clark's barely do
30% of the Flagg Topps Chrome rookies PSA has graded came back 10s, against 19% for Clark's Prizm.
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Anthony Edwards' Silver Prizm could cool after his knee surgery
ESPN reported he could miss up to two months, hours after that PSA 10 sale.
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Wembanyama Kapture seller says he's a theft victim too
He says the flagged PSA 9 came from his own submission, which lost more than 100 cards in the FedEx truck theft.
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Jordan Finest Refractor returns to eBay at $8,250 two weeks after selling for $9,700
The buyer who paid $9,700 for the PSA 9 on Oct. 13 starts the bidding at $8,250.
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Bronny stays a Laker as Knecht joins the Knicks, but I wouldn't buy either's Kaboom
Knecht agreed to a two-way deal four days after the Lakers cut him, while Bronny got the last seven minutes of the opener.
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Michael Jordan's PSA 2 Fleer rookie bids near PSA 3 money tonight
The 1986-87 Fleer rookie closes at 5:18 p.m. ET after nearly doubling since last fall.
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Kessler's Silver rookie made a round trip before his perfect Lakers debut
Nobody has sold a PSA 10 of his 2022 Prizm Silver since he made all 12 of his shots for 26 points in Wednesday's 127-105 win over the Warriors.
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Luka promised LA a title run as his Prizm rookie stayed flat all year
A PSA 10 of his 2018 Prizm rookie sold for $200 on the day of the Lakers' opener against the Warriors, against around $209 last October.
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LeBron's Chrome rookie got cheaper right before his Sixers debut
Four PSA 9 copies of his 2003 Topps Chrome rookie sold for less than $3,850 at Fanatics Collect on Oct. 18, two days before he beat the Knicks at Madison Square Garden.
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LeBron's rookie card cooled off before his first Sixers game
Collectors paid up after he chose the Sixers in July, then started selling his 2003 Topps rookie well before Tuesday's debut at Madison Square Garden.
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LeBron James' First Pack-Sealed 76er Cards Are Short-Printed
Topps says a last-minute add put LeBron James on the Sixers in 2026-27 Topps Flagship Basketball
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The 10 Best WNBA Cards to Buy Right Now
This is still Caitlin Clark's market, even in a Finals without her. These are the top 10 WNBA cards to buy in October.
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The 10 Best Basketball Cards to Buy Right Now
Two Jordans, a LeBron and Cooper Flagg's first Topps Chrome rookie made the cut. These are the top 10 basketball cards to buy in October.
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Hunt says Jordan's 1998 Finals Game 2 jersey sold for $14 million
Hunt calls the signed red road jersey a record for any piece of basketball memorabilia.
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LeBron's orange Chrome auto sells for nearly $150,000 in PSA 10
Topps made 25 orange copies of the autograph and 5 red ones.
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Jordan's Star Gatorade card sells for nearly $117,000 in PSA 9
The Gatorade Slam Dunk set first went to fans at the 1985 NBA All-Star Weekend banquet.
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Four Steph Curry Minions cards are up for bid at Goldin
The red parallel, numbered 5/5 and graded PSA 8, shares the sale with three PSA 9s of the base card.
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Shaq's 2015 Kaboom in PSA 10 more than doubles since June
Its last three sales all came on Fanatics Collect, the newest a Buy It Now.
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Knicks starting-five 1/1 redemption tops $300,000
Topps packed a single redemption for the gold-ink card into its Knicks champions sets.
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Chef Curry 1/1 sells for more than $650,000
The Chef Curry card in PSA 8 outsold every printed card in Goldin's Monthly Sports Elite sale.
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Cooper Flagg's debut patch 1/1 sells for more than $8 million
Dylan Harper's and Kon Knueppel's debut patches each cleared $2 million in the same sale.
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Illustrator Pikachu tops the Goldin 100
A CGC 9 Illustrator Pikachu outsold Ohtani's rookie autograph and the Black Lotus.
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A Flagg card with Minions on it is bidding at six figures
The Minionfractor Superfractor 1/1 has two days left in the sale that also holds his Debut Patch.
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Cooper Flagg's debut patch bids slow ahead of extended bidding
Flagg's bid has not moved since Saturday, with the Harper and Knueppel lots stalled the same way.
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Flagg, Harper and Knueppel each add one bid at Fanatics
One bid apiece moved the three debut patches $270,000 USD in a day, five days before the close.
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Flagg, Harper and Knueppel all take new bids at Fanatics
The smallest of the three debut patches climbed furthest in three days.
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Wembanyama's entire jersey nameplate becomes trading cards
Topps cut the Spurs star's game-used nameplate into ten 1/1 patch cards, one letter per card.
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Harper's Bowman Chrome SuperFractor draws bids in the Goldin 100
Goldin frames the 1/1 on-card autograph rookie as a run at a record for any Harper card.
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Tatum and Flagg get a dual auto in Topps Pristine Basketball
Flagg pairs with veteran Tatum on one Duke autograph card.
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Cisse and Bryant Debut Patch 1/1s surface, 52/99 and 51/99
VIP Rips pulled Cisse's; B&B Card Shop's Bryant pull came weeks before the photo did.
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Citron and Iriafen's rookie cards get a playoff milestone
The Mystics are the youngest team ever to reach the WNBA playoffs, two years into a rebuild.
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Harper's game-worn rookie patch auto lands in Topps Definitive
The set has no date, no print run and no serial yet.
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Flagg's Debut Patch 1/1 passes two million with nine days to go
Harper's and Knueppel's cards trail far behind it; Fanatics Collect closes all three on September 24.
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Flagg, Harper, Knueppel NBA Debut Patch 1/1s open for bidding
Fanatics Collect's September Premier Auction closes all three lots on September 24.
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Bailey's Debut Patch 1/1 was pulled two weeks ago
TP35 Cards says a TikTok collector already pulled it, beating our last-unpulled call.
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Flagg's Sapphire 1/1 auto reported found
A breaker posted the pull Sept 5; Topps has not confirmed it and no auction has listed it.
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Goodwin Champions box pulls one of 23 Jordan redemptions
A Steel City Collectibles box held the Jordan-signed 1986-87 Fleer pack redemption.
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An Edgecombe 1/1 set his record at Alt
The BGS 9 Superfractor brought $59,100 USD at Alt; a Black /10 of the same card asks $5,000 USD.
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Topps Printed 211,627 LeBrons. Collectors Couldn't Get Enough.
LeBron James plays his first game for the 76ers on Tuesday. I'd skip the $7 base of his first Sixers card and spend on the numbered parallels.
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Curry's Minions card just sold for a grail price
A Topps Chrome Minions crossover numbered 4 of 5 brought $71,100 USD on eBay, per Topps.
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The Flagg 1/1 Debut RPA finally has an auction date
Fanatics Collect runs it September 10 to 24 after the owner turned down 3.6 million from Alt.
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The Flagg 1/1 goes to auction after all
Twelve hours after saying he would keep it, the owner consigned the PSA 10 to Fanatics Collect.
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Digital pack rips threaten Chrome Black sealed's premium
Instant Packs open Chrome Black Basketball in the Fanatics Collect app, where every card pulled is real.
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Sapphire boxes carry a premium until the Flagg 1/1 is pulled
Chrome Update Basketball Sapphire holds the Flagg 1/1 auto, an hour after a Durant color-match reveal.
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Donruss WNBA Rated Rookies are the cards to watch
Sales for the release opened August 26, a day after the league's biggest audience since 1997.
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Topps says the Anunoby Finals 1/1 still hasn't been redeemed
Its second tease in two days still leaves the Finals 1/1 Anunoby auto unclaimed.
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WNBA card demand isn't topping out at a 29-year viewership high
Clark scored 37 as 3.31 million tuned in, the WNBA's biggest regular-season audience since 1997.
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Bueckers' thin-printed cards move on her first playoff run
Dallas clinched the WNBA's last playoff spot, sending Bueckers to her first postseason.
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Reese's 2024 Prizm rookies are a buy while the record is new
Angel Reese set the WNBA's single-game and single-season rebounding records in one night.
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The Debut Patch chase is down to Bailey's card
The Knueppel Debut Patch redemption surfaced Saturday, leaving Bailey's as the only one still unpulled.
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A Jordan jersey chases the auction record
Jordan's 1998 Finals Game 3 jersey heads to auction with an estimate near his $10.1 million USD record.
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