Topps unveils uncommon LeBron, Curry, Durant-signed Paris Olympics card

As uncommon because it was for LeBron James, Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant to crew up for a handful of video games this summer time, now there’s a collectable commemorating their time collectively on the Paris Olympics that is even rarer.

James, Curry and Durant will all autograph a 1-of-1 Topps buying and selling card that includes the gold-medal-winning trio of their crimson, white and blue Staff USA uniforms that might be despatched to a buyer at random who purchases the celebs’ base card from the corporate.

“This card pays tribute to the unbelievable second that we noticed through the Olympics the place three of the best lively basketball gamers mixed to take dwelling the gold medal,” Clay Luraschi, senior vp of product at Topps, informed ESPN. “This specific card is particular as a result of you’ve your common model after which you’ve an autograph model. There’s been many various autograph playing cards all through basketball buying and selling card historical past, however that is the primary time these three gamers have signed the identical card. So, it makes it very distinctive.”

𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Somebody who buys a Topps Now base card from in the present day’s Staff USA Gold Medal recreation will obtain this 1/1 Steph, LeBron, KD triple auto.

This card is the primary ever:
– LeBron Topps auto
– LeBron & Curry auto on the identical card
– Steph/KD/LeBron triple

And to high it… pic.twitter.com/zzoS6rJhK6

— Topps (@Topps) August 10, 2024

The bottom card was made out there at 6:20 p.m. ET on Saturday — shortly after the U.S. males’s basketball crew’s gold medal ceremony following its 98-87 win over France — and the buying window will shut Tuesday at 6:20 p.m. ET, at which level Topps will pair a redemption card for the triple-auto at random for a fortunate buyer.

The redemption card might be despatched to the winner inside 10 days of the shut of the sale, in accordance with a Topps spokesperson.

The bottom card that includes James, Curry and Durant retails for $11.99.

Lately, playing cards that includes James’ autograph accompanied by the signatures of Corridor of Famers similar to Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant have offered at public sale for tens of 1000’s of {dollars}.

“I feel the cardboard is well six figures,” Ken Goldin, founder and CEO of Goldin Auctions, informed ESPN when requested for an estimation of the cardboard’s price. “Nonetheless, the very fact it’s not a [pack] pulled card caps its worth.”

The cardboard is a part of the Topps Now program that releases playing cards on to customers as moments in sports activities historical past unfold, relatively than via a standard card set that sometimes commemorates a specific season for a sports activities league.

“The Topps Now program type of has revolutionized the best way we do buying and selling playing cards, and plenty of it needed to do with expertise and digital printing,” Luraschi informed ESPN. “So, you are in a position to do these merchandise on demand, and also you’re in a position to ship them to the patron a lot quicker. So, it makes the moments tremendous related.”

Topps Now was initiated by the corporate in 2016.

This system additionally launched a number of different playing cards throughout Staff USA’s run via the Paris Video games, together with one depicting Curry’s 36-point outburst within the semifinals in opposition to Serbia; one honoring Durant turning into the all-time main scorer in U.S. Olympic basketball historical past; and one in all James and tennis star Coco Gauff serving as America’s flag-bearers through the opening ceremony.