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Topps reveals rare LeBron, Sauce, Durant-signed Paris Olympics memory card

.Dave McMenamin, ESPN Team WriterAug 12, 2024, 08:14 PM ETCloseLakers and NBA media reporter for ESPN.Covered the Lakers and NBA for ESPNLosAngeles.com from 2009-14, the Cavaliers from 2014-18 for ESPN.com as well as the NBA for NBA.com coming from 2005-09. As rare as it was actually for LeBron James, Stephen Sauce as well as Kevin Durant to partner for a handful of video games this summer months, now there is a collectable commemorating their opportunity together at the Paris Olympics that is actually even rarer.James, Sauce as well as Durant will all signature a 1-of-1 Topps trading memory card including the gold-medal-winning trio in their red, white and also blue Team USA uniforms that are going to be sent out to a customer at random who buys the superstars' base memory card coming from the business." This memory card pays tribute to the incredible moment that our company viewed throughout the Olympics where 3 of the best energetic basketball gamers integrated to take home the gold award," Clay Luraschi, elderly vice head of state of product at Topps, informed ESPN. "This specific memory card is actually special considering that you have your normal version and then you have a sign version. There's been actually various signature memory cards throughout basketball trading card background, yet this is the first time these 3 gamers have actually signed the exact same memory card. Thus, it creates it extremely special.": Somebody who buys a Topps Currently servile memory card from today's Group U.S.A. Gold Award activity will certainly obtain this 1/1 Steph, LeBron, KD triple auto.This memory card is the very first:- LeBron Topps vehicle- LeBron &amp Curry automobile on the very same card- Steph/KD/LeBron tripleAnd to top it ... pic.twitter.com/zzoS6rJhK6u2014 Topps( @Topps )August 10, 2024 The bottom card was actually offered at 6:20 p.m. ET on Saturday-- shortly after the U.S. men's basketball group's gold medal ceremony following its 98-87 get France-- and the buying home window will definitely close Tuesday at 6:20 p.m. ET, whereupon Topps will certainly match an atonement card for the triple-auto at random for a lucky customer.The atonement memory card will certainly be actually sent out to the victor within 10 times of the shut of the sale, depending on to a Topps spokesperson.The bottom memory card including James, Curry as well as Durant retails for$ 11.99. Publisher's Picks2 RelatedIn recent years, memory cards including James' sign accompanied by the signatures of Venue of Famers like Michael Jordan or even Kobe Bryant have actually sold at auction for 10s of lots of bucks." I presume the memory card is actually simply 6 numbers," Ken Goldin, creator and CEO of Goldin Auctions, informed ESPN when asked for an estimation of the memory card's really worth." Nonetheless, the fact it is actually not a [pack] pulled memory card caps its value." The card belongs to the Topps Right now system that launches cards directly to customers as minutes in sports past unravel, as opposed to with a conventional memory card established that typically commemorates a certain time for a sports league." The Topps Currently plan sort of has actually revolutionized the technique our team carry out trading cards, as well as a bunch of it pertained to modern technology and electronic printing," Luraschi said to ESPN." Thus, you have the capacity to perform these items as needed, and also you have the ability to provide them to the customer a lot faster. Thus, it makes the moments tremendously applicable." Topps Now was started by the company in 2016. The plan also launched many other memory cards during Group U.S.A.'s run through the Paris Gamings, consisting of one depicting Sauce's 36-point episode in the semifinals against Serbia one honoring Durant coming to be the everlasting leading scorer in U.S. Olympic baseball background as well as among James as well as tennis star Coco Gauff working as The United States's flag-bearers during the course of the position event.