Next Prospects To Pop (Part 2) 🔥 | LeBron 1/1, Wemby White Sparkle

This week on You Can’t Comp This Podcast, we double down on one of the hobby’s favourite debates — Next Prospects To Pop (Part 2).

Who’s actually next… and who are we all just hoping on?

We break down emerging names, market timing, and what separates a real breakout from short-term hype.

We also dive into:

•  The impact and significance of a LeBron James 1/1
•  The continued intrigue around Wemby White Sparkle
•  Play-in pressure and hobby implications from the Heat vs Hornets matchup

As always — different collectors, different strategies. There’s no single “right” answer… but there are smarter ways to think about it.

Transcript

What's up everybody? Welcome to this week's show. This is the You can't comp this MBA trading card podcast. I am your

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host Russell Gibson. This is episode 277 and welcome to this week's live stream.

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Really appreciate you coming on board.

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This week we're going to talk about LeBron James and his new autograph. We are also going

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to be talking about the Detroit Pistons and them clinching the Eastern Conference, which I think is

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a really important piece as to what's going on in the NBA at the moment.

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Uh we're also going to be talking about Victor Ambeen Yama because he is still absolutely popping off at the moment.

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And we're going to start a new segment which is basically built around the next prospects to be looking at who's going to crack that $1,000 USD mark. So SGA,

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Yokic, LeBron James, Luca, Webby or in the plus $1,000 mark. Who is going to be getting into that? elite level next.

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And without any further ado and any more mucking around, let's get down to it. I think the biggest story for me from a

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hobby perspective as of this week is LeBron James and his new autograph.

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It's not uncommon for auto autographs to change over the years and for athletes to change them. And to take that a step

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further, athletes will sometimes sign different autographs even at the same period of time and use different types

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of autographs. This isn't LeBron using one autograph for something and once for something else. He is changing, as far

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as I'm aware, he's changing all of his autographs um to this new format.

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I don't mind this frankly at all because I think what it's going to do is for collectors it brings in an entirely new autograph

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for them to collect and also two it sets apart two different eras for LeBron in terms of his signing. So, what you can see here on the left hand side is his,

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if you want to call it, his OG autograph here and then his new autograph with the

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little king insignia just sitting very nicely on top of the autograph there. I personally I like this a lot. I think that it adds a bit of character to it.

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And I I think one criticism that you can have for athletes, particularly when they're signing very large volumes, and

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we're going to go through an example of this in a minute, is that they're not taking the time, they're not taking the care to do it. I think the fact that he

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is adding something to his autograph and not taking something away from it is a really big part

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um as to why people would collect something. And so I I am all for this. I you know I think this is a a really nice

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addition to it. The only thing that I would like to see more of from LeBron is maybe some custom inscriptions that has

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been done onto his cards, but I think that's a separate conversation altogether.

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Let's just have a look through some of the Twitter comments here. We've got the collectibles guru giving it the three crowns.

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We got Josh Reynolds. His new one is way better, but I hate when players change, especially this late in the career.

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Nelly's now all his old signature stuff is less cool. Lame. I'm not too sure I would call it less cool, but I think it

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does definitely differentiate between the different ones. Does this mean the old signature is worth more? I think that in terms of value and a signature

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being worth more or less, that's more to do with population and scarcity and rarity of a card as opposed to generally. But what we do know about

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LeBron autographs in totality is he hasn't signed for such a very long time.

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So compared to other athletes, for example, Steph Curry and Luca, he has such significantly less autographs out there in the total population that

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um they're worth more in that particular thing.

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Michael Michael never had to call himself a king or a goat. Everyone else has already done that for him. Look, I think that's actually more of a um an

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ego thing on LeBron. But at the same time, um Dook at off the hook 35 must have hurt his wrist while flopping.

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That's definitely possible, but um you know, maybe that would actually shorten his autograph, not lengthen it.

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All righty, moving on. Here we've got another lovely example here of his king autograph going on to a lovely 8 out of 10

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tops chrome there. Absolutely lovely on that one there on card autograph. Now this is what I did want to show you guys and what I was referencing this earlier

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before when athletes aren't taking the time and effort putting it into an autograph.

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And I I think that this is something for me that I get it. If you have to sign 20,000 10,000 in a single sitting, you know,

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that's totally fine. You can smash them out like this. But for someone like LeBron that we know isn't signing the volume of this. We we don't know the exact numbers of one he's signing to,

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but his agreement isn't to do large volumes of autographs.

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It's to do small. So, I think for him to take that little bit of extra time on the autographs that do go out there, and I really think this actually adds to the

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total value of his cards. So again like for me this is just a really positive good news hobby story. I will say that.

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Uh moving on here this is actually a followup.

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I was having a conversation offline with somebody about the last podcast. So I think what I should do here is just try and add a little bit of clarity to that.

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And I also think too just maybe a public apology too of you know what's been going on. I am in a massive adjustment

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period at the moment where I'm doing some live streams and videos and I'm using that as podcast content and maybe I need to do a bit better explanation

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and so you know this is a follow-up for that. I was referring to a web autograph

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on the last show. So shout out sorry to Furf 12 on Instagram. So Furf thank you so much man for you know calling me out

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in a very positive and a in a really good way. So, this is the card that I was referring to. 2023 Don Russ Victor

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Weber animation card gem mint PSA 10 sold on alt for 10,300.

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Just to reiterate my point here. My point was that price point is insane. I love the card. I love the design, but I

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love that for 200 bucks, not 10,000. I I think that's really what I was getting to here.

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On the flip side of that, I get it. It's population two. BGS population on the nine is just one.

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You know, in terms of scarcity, that's totally fine. But also, I would say to,

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you know, where is that going to land long term? I I've got a very hard time believing that's going to keep up on that. This is from Sack Collects on

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Twitter. Panini is such a croc. Pay $500 plus for this exclusive product with three cards. pull awesome jersey relic

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of the top rookie which is Paige Bukers which I don't know what's the NBA comp. You

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could maybe say in terms of hype like LaMelo Ball an insane rookie coming through is probably going to be as big

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as Steph Curry but I think at the moment that's the correct comp is LaMelo Ball in terms of rookie hobby hype. Pull an awesome relic of the top rookie Panini.

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Yeah, but this ain't her jersey or anybody's. We just grabbed a random jersey and cut it up and enjoy. So, I actually agree with this 100% and I've

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said this previously and I've said it on the breaks that we do. I love the WNBA product. I think the price point

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pre-Caitlyn Clark has been so affordable.

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It's been absolutely fantastic. But a massive massive downfall of this product. And also where

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I think they should be killing it is it should all be game used and game worn or at least

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you know event worn. I think for rookies I'll let them off the hook for that. But for all the veterans there is no reason

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like we're way past CO. I think the trigger for Panini to start using non-game one was co and I either think

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that was an excuse or I think that was a reason. Either way, in my mind, that's when it all changed. But what I think we need to see,

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particularly now, Pini isn't doing the huge volumes that they previously were.

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We need to see them going back to game one at the very minimum for the veterans. I would love personally to see it for the rookies. For me, it adds so

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much extra value and enjoyment into something when I'm collecting it and they absolutely need to fix this. Uh,

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Peter Mato, your first mistake was buying women's cards. Man, I got to disagree with you about that wholeheartedly. You need to check out

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some Caitlyn Clark coms, my man. It's It's absolutely insane. Um, at StoPie,

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I'm glad I have zero desire to collect rally cars. Never liked them and now they're fake, too. And look, maybe actually it's not so much that they're

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fake. It's just that they could and they I'm saying Panini Panini realized of the profit margin they can make on that

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extra after co and people still collect them despite the fact they're not gameworn.

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For me, it's it's a real line in the sand moment where you've almost got like some old school collectors who would only value game worn stuff and you've

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got the new lot of collectors who are coming through where that's all they've ever had. So, in some ways like they never know. I I think longterm it's

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going to play out in the sense that game one is going to be much much more valuable.

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But at the same time, if the biggest cards in the hobby, which is for WNBA in particular, are only non-game warn, well

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then maybe that value will just hold out and play. Well, the really good example of this as to why game warn matters is WBY. If you look at his rookie cards

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that sell for the most in terms of non-autograph stuff released from Panini, it is the gameworn logoman. That

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is the card that explains it all of it in an absolute mozzarellas.

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Thank you for joining. Goodday Oend,

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hope you're well mate. And get a BCD cards and collectibles. I hope you guys are very very well. So moving on to our

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next topic, we are going to talk about the almighty Detroit Pistons. This for me is a really good news story of the year. That and the Charlotte Hornets has kept me enjoying the NBA this year.

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That's the the thing that I'm lucky about. I don't have a team, so I just sort of drift into things that, you know, really good news stories for me.

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Obviously, it's the Hornets. They've been my league pass darlings. Other places are starting to talk about now.

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True Hoops was talking about that this week. Shout out to True Hoops. But let's get back to the Detroit Pistons. These guys have been absolutely cooking. They

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sorted out a couple of things with the chemistry.

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They've worked out the balance between defense and shooting. And they've got a fantastic roster that is wellb built.

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Um compliments each other in a really meaningful way and also is a young roster. Juran's young, Kad's young, Beef Stew, he's an absolute lunatic.

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Obviously, this is the veteran presence going on here. And then we've got the Thompson Twin, which could have the highest upside of all the names that

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we've just me mentioned here. I I think it's just a just a fantastic feeling when you've got a team that's been

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frankly terrible for years and years now to be the number one seed. And the other good news story was we had Kate Cunningham that was out with the

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numthorax. He is now going to be back in time for the end of the regular season. So that's twofold good news if

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you're a Pistons fan. Number one, it is because that means he hopefully will be ellegible for the end of season awards and then also to getting his legs back underneath him in time for the playoffs.

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I would love to see them make a deep run at least to the semi-finals at the very minimum to the Eastern Conference Finals. That's what I think they should be able to do.

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And then look, if everything goes lucky and it goes well for them, here is hoping that they're going to make it to

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the NBA finals. Shout out to Cardsboulevard on Twitter. This is from them. Short-term game 2023 Panini Prism

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Pulsar number to 35 WBY PSA 10. Sold in February 26 for 15K and then went on to

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be sold for $26,400 in March of 2026. In just one month,

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he's up 66%.

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I think the timing of a sale is obviously really, really important here.

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But also too, this just demonstrates how hot WBY currently is at the moment. And this guy is absolutely scorching.

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So what does this mean? If you are a WBY holder or you're a WBY collector, I personally think this is the right time to sell.

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For me, this is getting into the point where it's just getting too high. I mean, like, what can he do other than go down?

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The only thing I would push back on this sale is that I really think silver's the silver pop on this guy is insane. And

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I've got him opened up here so we can talk about this really quickly. It's population 5 5,000. So these are the ones actually I would sell. This one

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here. Yeah, I think that's a fantastic flip and it's a good sale, but my only sort of push back on this is the pop.

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The maximum pop on this you could get to is 35. And actually, I personally think these are the cards I would want to be buying. The only thing, you know, you

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can make sort of the argument for is now you can put 26K into a LeBron auto to a Jordan autogra. You know, you can put it to some towards something like that. You

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could wait for this to come back down. I I think it's I think it's very fair to say that there

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is some potential for this card to go up and then come back down. You could jump back into the market. Look, that could be the play. Or you could just be happy that you made 66% in a month. you know,

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either way, congratulations to the seller, and that's a really, really fun one.

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All righty. This is from Poppy Petco on Card Hub Sports Card Exchange Australia.

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Blaster boxes are dead. They do not add any value to the hobby anymore.

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Seriously, we should all boycott blasters so that manufacturers just release mega boxes and hobby boxes. All right, I disagree with this on such a

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profound level. I'm actually going to take the time to uh answer this as thoroughly as I can. The hobby needs price points. It needs $5, $10, $50,

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$100, $250, 500, a,000 and and above that. And so the problem is if you take

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out blaster boxes, it removes a really soft entry point for adults. It removes that really nice entry point for

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teenagers and it also removes a really nice entry point for kids who have maybe saved up their pocket money and their parents are helping them out with some

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money that they'll given from their grandma for their birthday. You know,

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something along those lines. I I think that you need hobby boxes so that people can open packs.

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The other thing that Topps has done really well this year is that they put autographs into them. They also put one of one, the super refractors into it.

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And so the potential for somebody to buy a really cheap box and get something like that back is actually profound and

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really important. Sam Petra, excuse my pronunciation on this one here, from a $35

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blaster on an Amazon clearance sale. He hit a Kaboom Larry Bird which he sent off to PSA and it came back a 10. So

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that came out of Revolution um retail. They did blasters and megas on that in 2024 and also 2025.

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Me personally, that is one of my favorite retail products maybe of all time. I've got some on the cupboard.

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I've I've got it put away for when I sit down and I want to have a rip for myself. The other one for me that's is

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just an oldtime prism. just sitting down ripping a product that you might have got a number to 25 green pulser out of or a silver prism maybe an autograph.

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Yeah, it was most likely going to be like a crappy low-end autograph, but there's still the potential to get one out of it. Also, I said collect prism.

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So, there's so much, you know, joy that I get from doing retail. For me, it's just

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Yeah, I I think if you remove this actually, you'd be doing the hobby a disservice, not actually improving it.

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So, Ethan Freeny, I still buy some. I generally don't have the $400 to drop on a box to get a decent card. I like the

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$40 to $80 boxes for something fun to open. If I want a specific player or a card, I just go out and buy it. Yeah,

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and that's exactly that that's exactly right. And I think that's another way of saying price points because not everyone does fit into that $400,

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$1,000 price points. Um, the other one that I want to read through too is this one here. Ronny Row, don't know about other sports ratio to hits to NFL, but I was into breaks left, right, and center.

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And probably 99% of Australian breakers never hit anything good. Yet, while all over in America, and particularly certain breakers hitting the top big

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dollar cards. And why? It's simple economics. America is the main buyer of NFL. So Panini keeps the US market happy. And then there's O Panini. Don't

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know where the good cards are. So go only to the majority of first off the line and certain breakers. And then there's a price preco national treasures

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box 3K now and trading at 9K now. So there's a lot being covered here. Panini made great cards best ever probably but their practice was dodgy as hell. All

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right. So I will answer that specifically. I I don't actually believe that breakers

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get preferential treatment in terms of allocation of the hits. I I would really hope that manufacturers don't

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know where the hits go. As far as I know, most of it gets machine packed other than flawless.

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For tops and fanatics, I've got no idea how that gets packed and I haven't looked into it. Um, I will say this,

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bigger breakers overseas break so much larger quantity of product. I am hoping that that's the real reason why they get the bigger hits and more of them. They

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do met better marketing and they spend a heap on clicks getting your attention to those cards. So, that's that part of it too. In terms of breakers in Australia

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not getting good products, look, I personally disagree with that. I I think that there's a lot of smaller breakers

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that do a lot less volume, but they're still doing big volumes and they get fantastic cards. Neon Trading Cards are our sponsor. I would say to you, go on

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to their website and go and have a look at some of the cards that they've hit.

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They've hit some absolute monsters over time. So, yeah, simple as that.

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I'm going to take a quick break, just get a quick drink, and I will be right back with our next segment.

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All righty, we're back. Thank you so much for coming back and joining us.

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We're going to kick off a new segment which is called Next Prospects to Pop.

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And so we're going to look at 14 different players over the next four weeks.

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And this is prefaced by me not buying into cards when I should have. I've looked at card values. I've said, "Yes,

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that's a good price." and I've just not hopped on and done it. So, for example, SGA at one point was trading at $550.

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It is now currently trading at $2,651.

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Now, for this one here, I will actually fully admit that I was wrong about this. When it was going up, I was saying, "Look, this now is a good time to sell.

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How much higher is this going to go?" I was dead wrong on that to the point now that I've actually switched around and now I actually think SJ is probably a

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good buy, particularly what's going to happen in the next couple of years. This is the really big one though for me.

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This is the one that's really motivated me to do this segment. Nicole Yokik silver PSA 9 population on this 470

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in 2024 was trading for $661. That is now trading at 1,450.

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His silver PSA 10 is now trading at 6,200 and two years ago was trading at 2,600.

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And so the whole idea behind this segment is to look around the league and say, great,

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what are the next next prospects that could do really, really well for you. At number 14, we're going to start off with

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Nquille Alexander Walker. I really love the resurgence that he's had in his career. Him going to Atlanta has just been an absolute godsend.

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I I've always liked the way he's played basketball. I thought he's had good size in the back court, but for whatever reason, he's never really meshed. And so

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him going to the the Hawks has just been such a positive move for his career and I couldn't be happier for him. I think

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the systems they run in Atlanta is just fantastic for good smart basketball players and he is the epitome of that.

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He's a fantastic outside shooter and in the current NBA that that can give you enough court time to be successful. So

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he is currently trading at $67. I'm actually going to give this the highest rating of all the cards we're going to talk about today at 9 out of 10. Yes,

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he's in the seventh year of his career,

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but I would actually say don't let that put you off. Sometimes players just bloom late. And also for him situationally, he's also bloomed late.

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He is up 268%

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over the last 2 years. You could have picked this guy up for $326,

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which is cheaper than the price of grading. So, whoever did that, congratulations to you.

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Coming in here next at number 13, we have got Aean Thompson of the Houston Rockets.

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Now, this one's a little bit of a funny one for me because if you look at his graph over the last two years, he's up and down. If you zoom in to the last 6

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months, he is down 40%. Now, some people would say, "Well, that's a bad thing that he's down 40%." But actually for me I I view this as opportunity because I

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really value him in terms of his overall game. He's clearly shown out that he can play in big games. I think he's got the

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big game ability to succeed in the playoffs and more more importantly that in the finals. I don't think his game is

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a finished product and I think he's going to keep getting better particularly when it comes to shooting.

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That's the really big thing. I think if he can improve that to enough that people have to 100% respect his jump

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shot, he's virtually going to be you could never take him off the court.

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I was going to say he was going to be unstoppable, but that's not his game.

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But you every time you take him off the court, your team's just going to be worse off for it. And I think we're already starting to see that a little bit now with the Houston Rockets.

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Back to his card value though, at $177,

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I'll give this a 7 out of 10 in terms of value. I think it's a really good purchase. I don't think there's anything to be overly worried about his price

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dropping. I just personally think at the moment there's a lot of money going into Conanul. There's a lot of money going to Cooper flag. There's a heap of money

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going to WBY. We've got some massive LeBron autographs that are coming out now. I suspect some of the money's been taken out of these marginal cards and

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going to that stuff. But that is also an opportunity. I personally wouldn't be rushing out to buy this right now. I would put this into your bookmark

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folder. check back on his pricing. Just keep a bit of an eye on it.

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Coming in at number 12, we have got Scotty Barnes. Now, Scotty Barnes is not a ghost to this show. We we've spoke about Scotty Barnes on multiple times.

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We had Joe Dennison come on, and Joe did not have a Scotty Barnes in his collection, which I cannot believe that Scotty Barnes is a fantastic NBA player.

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He can play all over the court. My concern is for example if I directly comp into Aean Thompson is his market and I will acknowledge that 100%. Now in

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saying that he's going to be a perennial all-star moving forward. So there's not a huge concern in that.

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I just think you do need to factor that in a tiny tiny bit. Over the last two years he's up 14%. Over the last 6

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months he's up 16%. And personally I think this is the pricing point that is about right for him. I think this is a

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long-term purchase. It's not a short-term flip. So again, I would more put this guy into your bookmarks bookmark list to see what you can pick

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up on the cheap for this guy moving into the future. I rate this at about 7 7.5 out of 10. I'm a big big fan of Scotty Barnes. I think the potential is there.

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Fantastic pickup at $145.

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Population on this is low too. It's actually not that much. So, 335 on that.

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Coming in next at number 11 is Darren Fox. Now, this one for me is a little bit painful because if you don't know, I I love Darren Fox. I've purchased quite

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a bit of him. At the highest, I paid $500 Australian dollars for that this particular card, which in today's

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dollars is about $350 USD. I've purchased multiples along the lines since then so I could, you know, make the argument I've averaged it out over

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time, but this most recent sale of $63 for me is is astounding. So, I'm going to need to get on some bids. I personally think this is one of the best

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purchases in the league at the moment if that is a correct comp. If this is a correct comp, I'm going to give this a 9 or 9.5 out of 10. If it's, let's just

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say it's it's a wrong comp and the the one before that is correct, um, which is $145, I would give that like a 6.5 or a

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seven out of 10. The reason I say that is because I think this is at least a three-year purchase. I don't think this

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is a a quick flip. I think what you're banking on here is the Spurs being contenders for the next three years, and there's nothing to give me any pause on

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that at all. I think the Spurs are such a welldesigned and well-built team and they're not finished constructing the roster yet. We are still a work in

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27 minutes, 21 seconds

progress. I think Fox actually could play better with WY. I don't think that's a finished product. And they've got a few other pieces on their roster

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that, you know, they're nice pieces, but at the same time too, if if you tell me that their roster looks 40% different in

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two years, you know, I wouldn't be surprised on that at all. I I think the Spurs are very dynamic in that sense.

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The population on this is 599. This is pre the Luca Doni explosion era in terms of pops. This is 90% less population

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than Webby. You have to keep that in mind when you are trading these cards long-term into the future.

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Yeah, nine out of 10 if you can pick one of these up at $63.

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Now coming in, the last card we're going to talk about today, number 10, is Conapple. And look, I actually built this list before I checked all the

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comps. So, this one has automatically been promoted up to the top of the list cuz he's already cracked that $1,000 mark. But I still want to talk about

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this card because I personally don't hold Canle in the same way that everyone else in the hobby does. And I've been wrong about so many different things.

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And this might be one of those things that I'm wrong about. And that's and that's totally fine. I will wear that.

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What I do want to say about this card is I personally think it's peaking and I think there's two reasons why it's peaking. I think people are betting on

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this to be the rookie of the year and also too it's the first year of Tops Chrome and I understand people's excitement and actually I've got no

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problem with it all. I think it's fantastic that people are excited. They're going out spending their money.

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The other thing we have to mention now and we have to mention here is this is also part to do with the rookie hype.

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And so what I am anticipating is going to happen here is this card is going to spike and it will start to come down.

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You could actually make an argument that it's peaked already at 1,800 and we're already starting to see this card come down $1,750

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$971. It's coming back up again a little bit here to $1,200.

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I personally think this is going to go back down. I think if you hold tight,

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you'll be able to get this card for $700 $600 in the future.

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So, where this fits into my argument is you're waiting for this card to go back down and then you're going to buy it again. I'm still putting him down into

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my fourth segment. So, I've got three other groups of athletes in front of Konapo.

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And the reason why I'm going to say this in particular is Laamelo Ball.

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It is an absolutely different time period and LaMelo Bore was in a crazy crazy time of the hobby

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and he also held up the hobby. So so much money went into this guy. But still hear me out because this data is

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fantastic for showing people what happens after the rookie hype. Rookie hype here at $6,000.

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Still rookie hype here at $4,500. This is crazy numbers. Still rookie hype. We're going downwards though, guys.

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We're going down. But this is still crazy rookie hype. $1,500, $800. Okay,

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now we're getting out of the rookie hype and we're seeing this card really go down here all the way down here to $335.

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I was saying before with Conapple, he might go down to $700. He might go down lower than that. Now,

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LaMelo has settled in beautifully here.

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And actually, I'm going to stop this conversation because I want to hold LaMelo for for later on in this segment.

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But that's my point on Conapple. You've got that massive rookie hype and then all the heat comes off. My my thing to

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people is wait for the heat to come off and then come back in and buy that card for a much much better price.

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That's the last thing we've got for today's show.

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Thank you so much everybody for sticking around. I really appreciate you guys tuning in. I hope you've enjoyed the show. Massive shout out to our Facebook

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So, thank you so much, Oend. I appreciate all your support, guys.

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Have a wonderful night, guys. I'll catch you next time. Bye-bye.