Next Prospect To Pop: Finale: Kobe, Lebron, Luka and @Razmo31 listener question

We’ve reached the finish line! In the series finale of Next Prospect to Pop, we are going out with a bang by diving into some of the most iconic pieces of cardboard in the modern hobby. From ultra-rare 90s inserts to the defining images of today’s GOATs, we’re breaking down the market and the "why" behind these legendary cards.

On This Episode:

• Luka Dončić Green Kaboom: We analyze the staying power of Panini’s most explosive insert. Is the Green Luka the ultimate modern grail?
• Kobe Bryant PMG: A deep dive into the 1997 Metal Universe Precious Metal Gems. We discuss why the PMG remains the "crown jewel" for serious collectors decades later.
• LeBron James "Chalk Toss": Breaking down the latest SSP sensation. How does this iconic image variation compare to LeBron’s other legendary flagship cards?
• Listener Q&A with @razmo31: We take a great question from the community about market timing and which prospects are actually worth the "pop" in 2026. 

Thank you for riding with us through this series. Whether you're a prospector or a whale hunter, remember: Buy what you love, but know what you own.

Transcript

hat's up everybody? Thank you so much for tuning in. This is the You Can't Comp This MBA Trading Card podcast. I am

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your host Russell Gibson and this is a midweek stream that is not in the midweek. It is on the weekend. It is

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Sunday. I was hoping to have a interview up from the hobby hangout, but I'm not too sure that is going to be able to be done. So, this is almost like a filler

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episode. So this week we're going to talk about next prospects to pop which is the final segment of that particular

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episode. We've got a LeBron James card to go through Kobe Bryant and Luka Donic. I've also got a listener question

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of Tik Tok. So we will go through that and I think that will be quite enough for this little episode. So next

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prospects to pop. If you're not familiar with this, basically what I've done is this is week four of this and we're trying to look at players that have the

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potential to get to $1,000. Um, I've had two issues with producing this particular thing is that I created the

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list ahead of time. So, some of the comps have already changed. And then the other thing is, uh, I was trying to get it to 14 players in total, but I've I've

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gone way over that. I think I'm up to 16 or something like that. So, I'm definitely going to be doing some numbers gymnastics on this last week.

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But, here we go. Coming in as an honorable mention here, we've actually got Cooper Flag. Cooper Flag, rookie of the year, as we all now know, averaged

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21 points this year, 6.7 rebounds, 4.5 assists, and actually in a very nice 46.8% from the field. The Dallas

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Mavericks this year were very difficult to watch. Anthony Davis got traded. You could tell that they're still reeling from the Luca Donic trade in that

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they're really trying to establish themselves in having an identity and then also to firing their general manager, you know, mid-season. I think

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all of that has just made them like a very chaotic type squad. There's also some rumors out there that Klay Thompson

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has requested a trade now cuz he went there specifically to play with Luca Donic. So in all of that, Cooper Flag has been there absolutely shining light

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from this year and he's done really, really well in a lot of different scenarios. We know that Jason Kidd is very chaotic with the way that he runs

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his schemes and the way that he uses players, very famously used Giannis as a point forward very early in his career.

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And essentially his thought process behind that was to give him more decision-m opportunities and ball handling opportunities. And it was a long-term decision when you do that.

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You're not thinking about getting wins today. and he did the same thing with Cooper Flag. I think as the season went on though, he played less point forward, but definitely had the ball in his hands

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a lot. The reason why I've got him in as an honorable mention is because he's already at $1,690.

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And so, you know, I can't put him in as a true next prospect getting to 1,000, but I still think we have to watch this

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guy because while he is up at obviously much above $1,000, I wasn't expecting him to be this high this soon. And so I

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think we should probably talk about some of the factors that may have contributed to that going that high that quickly. I personally think it's got to do with

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Topps Chrome being the new product and people want to get these as the new product. Panini's out, Toppps is in. I I

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get that there's a lot of buzz behind that. So I think that's definitely contributing to it. I think is contributing to this. And I this is the part that I gives me the most concern

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about is the population. So the current population on this card is 101. The reason that concerns me is because

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there's a huge huge backlog currently at PSA at the moment and we don't know exactly how many Kooper flags are currently sitting in that backlog. So,

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you know, there could be a hundred sitting in the backlog. There could be a thousand sitting in the backlog. So, we all know how high We Wii is up to and I

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made an outrageous claim that that the Wembi could get to 10,000 on the silvers. It seems to me unlikely that

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he's going to get to 10,000 on these very early numbers. But in saying that, this is for me something definitely to look at. So that's definitely a red flag

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for me. The other obviously red flag here is just the rookie hype that you know gets behind it. Will this cool off once the next rookie class comes in? And

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we know there's a huge huge rookie class coming in. I'm not terribly upset by that. I just think you need to be a little bit buyer be aware with this, you

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know, very particular card coming in next. And this is my favorite card that we're going to talk about today. It is Tyrese Maxi, 2020 rookie. He is

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currently averaging 28.3 points per game, which is good for fifth in the league at the moment. He's averaging 4.1 rebounds and 6.6 assists. And this is

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actually the statistic I want to talk about the most with Tyrese Maxi. When he came into the league, I could never have dreamed he'll be such a proficient

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playmaker. He's 15th in the league in assists. I think in terms of his development as a player, this is the part where I've been the most impressed with his development. He has got elite

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level speed. You could call it athleticism if you wanted to. He's one of the fastest players in the league with the ball in his hands and I love

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that about his game. Like I just like watching fast players play basketball. It's just one of those things for me.

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But I think for me the most exciting part is watching that. And the 76ers have had a little bit of good luck with this roster in that they picked up Maxi with the 21st overall pick in the draft.

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And I think Daryl my is an absolute wizard and I think he deserves everything that he gets. So this is not me poo pooing on him. In fact, I'm

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complimenting my on this cuz look at the players that went ahead of him. Precious Aua, Sadiq Bay, Josh Green, Pokevki,

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Beef Stew, I'll give them a pass on that. Cole Anthony, Aaron's Nate Smith is a good 3 and D guy, but he's definitely not better than Maxi. Kira

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Lewis, I don't even know if he's in the league anymore. Tyres Hallebertton, okay, that was an absolute banger there by the Kings. Devin Vel, Jaylen Smith,

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who's currently floundering in the Bulls. Denny Ajiva, who's having an absolute breakout year for Portland. And then look at these next few here. Obi

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Toppin, Killian Hayes, Aongu, and then Isaac Aoro, Patrick Williams. I mean, there's a really strong argument to be

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made that he could be the third pick or the fourth pick. James Wiseman obviously was an absolute flame out at the number two pick there. So, you know, what a

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fantastic pick there. And then obviously they went back to back in terms of luck with VJ Edgecomb this year when they tanked into that pick there. So, you

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know, it's kind of an exciting situation to be in if you're a Philadelphia fan in that MBI is looking terrible at the moment. He's looking very damaged, but

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at the same time, you've got Edgecomb and you've got Maxi coming over over as that ne wave of talent coming into the Philadelphia 76s. So, I love this card a lot. I really do. Population on at 68.

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Yes, that's a little bit high, but the price here at $340 is just fantastic. In the last 3 months,

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he's up 16%, in the last 6 months, he's up 17%. In the last 12 months, he is up 140%. So June in 2025, this was trading

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at about $150 bucks. It's currently at $340. I really like this card a lot. So in terms of this getting to $1,000, I'm

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going to give it a low grade, like maybe a 6 out of 10. But in terms of me liking this card, buying into it at the moment, I'm going to give this like an 8.5 out

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of 10. I think Maxi is a fantastic prospect to be looking into. Coming in next, we got my boy here, Tyrese

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Hallebertton. And again, this is one of those ones where I built this list before his price rised up as high as it did. So, he's currently trading at 1,199.

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Let's just round that up to 1,200 USD. Uh, it's actually been higher than that. Recently, he was up to 1,400.

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In the last 3 months, he is up 40%. In the last 6 months, he's up 135%. And let's go back to the last 12 months.

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He's up 180%. So there was some jitters around Tyrese Maxi about 12 months ago and I actually want to say in the last two years he he's probably even less.

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Yeah, he was trading around $200. So yeah, in 2024 in December 2024 he that was his basically his lowest point there

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and around that sort of $200 mark. Yeah, he is just tracked up really really nicely and and frankly all of that

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tracking is built around his personal success and the team success that they've had and he's an absolute warrior. So he had that lung injury that

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we talked about in the show a couple of weeks back and he came back patted up like the Michelin man and I love that stuff. That to me is like when someone

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loves their team more than they love anything else and so I just can't get enough of that stuff. I I think he's a true leader. I think he's a fantastic

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floor general that you know the real question now is is this a buy holder or sell. So for me personally I sold my

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Cade about 3 weeks ago. I think I sold mine around this sort of $800 um USD

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mark because it definitely wasn't as high as this $1,400 mark when I sold mine. And so yeah, while I love Kade and

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he's a fantastic story, his price point at the moment is worrying. this season averaged 23.9 points, 5.5 rebounds, 9.9

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assist for second in the league. You know, you guys know I love that and a very tidy 46% from the from the field.

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You know, the question is is what can he do to get better. Look, maybe his three-point shooting could be a little bit better. I would actually like to see him work in the post a little bit more

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if maybe they can run some more sets around that. But I think ultimately for the Pistons to advance further through the league, just the team around him has

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to get better. He's been he's just been absolutely tremendous. All righty, we're starting to get now down to the big boys. We've only got two more cards in

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this series. Coming in next at number two, we have got Anthony Edwards. So, obviously there's a lot of static and

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there's a lot of noise going around for me in my head for this guy. And that's driven by Ryan from Gem Raid. It's driven by Matthew Yuga and to a lesser

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degree it's driven by Jonah Michaels who 12 months ago or even longer than that was just froing over this guy in terms of his hobby potential not so much his

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onc court NBA potential last sold for $880. The population on this is 2,260

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and so this is in 2020. This is in the the peak sort of co time where Panini was pumping out a lot of products.

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people were sending cards in large bunches to PSA. In all that being said, I I think this card has got a really

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good chance to get to $1,000. I I don't think it's if this card gets to $1,000.

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I think it's when this card gets to $1,000. I think the hobby hype around this guy is real. It is absolutely

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wellestablished. And I also think too that he is going to be the face of the NBA. And so there's going to be media pushed into him. There's going to be

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promotions around him. and and he's he's a likable guy. I think he's got that bravado around him that makes a lot of sense. All of that being said, I'm going

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to give this a 9.5 for this card to get to $1,000. Do I like this card as a purchase? I'm going to give it like a seven out of 10. And the reason I say

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this is because the population on this card is really, really high. And so, what actually might be more interesting or more relevant to look at is to look

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at the other cards that you could buy into out of this. So, for example, his blue cracked ice. you can't afford a PSA

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10, no problems at all. Start looking down at the lower graded stuff. So, this hasn't sold for a long time. So, you might make an argument that this is

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maybe a So, traded at $1,000 12 months ago. So, actually in the last 12 months, he's down 6%. If you're looking for a

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lower graded card on this, so interesting. The PSA 7 sold for more than the eight. So, you could pick up the blue number to 125. So, that gives

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you the color match, that gives you the protection on the numbering, and you're looking at a lower grade. There are some cards it's okay to buy a lower grade on.

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This is exactly the type of card. And if you can pick this up for $1,000, I think that's a really, really good long-term purchase. Numbers on the court, 28.8

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points per game for third in the league, five rebounds a game, and 3.7 assists per game. The number out of that that surprises me the the most is actually

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not the points per game. We all know how much of a fantastic scorer that he is.

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It's actually the assist. I would really like to see the minutes, the advanced stats on this guy when he's playing in a ball handling capacity because my

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subjective assessment of this guy's handling the ball a lot to the point that I almost feel like they're playing him as a he's not a shooting guard anymore. He's a point guard. They they

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start so much of their sets with the ball in his hands now. And he's doing a fantastic job with it, too. I think he's really taken a step up in terms of his

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allaround oncourt play. Like it's not just his scoring that's improved, it's his playmaking. It's the vision that he's got on the court and his assists.

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Actually, the reason I say that surprises me. I think this is low. I think this should be around five a game.

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I wonder if he's the type of guy like the Tim Duncan back in the day where he was getting like the secondary assist, the hockey assist. I would love to see the advanced stats on him to see where

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he's at. Coming in in first place is Jason Tatum. For me, this is my favorite card currently in the in the league at

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the moment. I love this card for so many different reasons. I think it's undervalued. I think the population is fantastic. There's half as many more

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than half as many Tatums as there are Anthony Edwards. And I still think this guy's got a lot of potential to go. And

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I think he's on a very dominant, very competitive team. And I think they've got a lot more potential to win more championships despite being placed in

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the same era as an S as an SGA Thunderled team. So I I love this a lot. Currently trading at $836.

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Population on this is 934.

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Yeah, I'm giving this eight out of 10 to purchase and at least 9 out of 10 for this to go to $1,000.

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The only thing about this though, he doesn't have the same hobby pop and the hobby potential that Edwards has. And I think, you know, I'm a little bit

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conflicted on that, but I'm putting this in first just cuz I like this car just a little bit more due to the pricing and also the population on it. Tatum this

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year, injuryridd season. I can't believe he came back this season. And you know, I think we have to give him his flowers on that. And also tip the hat to the to

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the doctors in the medical field. You know, you have to give these guys their credit. 21.8 points, 10 rebounds a game, five assists on 41% from the field. I

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mean, who cares about the field goal percentage, you know, it just really just doesn't matter. So, that's the end of our series. Next prospect to get to

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1K. If you guys want to give me some feedback on it, tell me what I got right. Tell me what I got wrong. I would love to hear all of your feedback. All

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righty, just a few bits of card porn to finish off the show with. We're going to talk about this Luca Donic Kaboom Green

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One of One PSA7 on this. It sold for $396,000.

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The question is is why did this card sell for so much? Me personally, I actually think this is unders. Kabooms are just an amazing case hit. People

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love them. For me, the real question is is why did they make the one of one green? I personally hate a one of one as a green. It should be either a gold or it should be a black, preferably black.

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I personally think the reason why they did this is to put it into the same conversation, even if it's subliminally into the green PMG. Now, check this out.

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Kobe Bryant 1997 metal universe precious metal gem green numbered to 10 on this PSA 5. It sold for $3,100,000.

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It's just insane. Absolutely insane numbers on these two cards here. I kind of want to do these cards at the same time. So, for me, these cards are in

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very much the same conversation. The question is is can this card go 10x? I don't think it could go 10x. I absolutely think it could go 3x.

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Absolutely, it could go 5x at some point in time. I think this is going to be a very long-term hold, though. So, obviously, this is not a quick flip

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card. You could quick flip this card, absolutely, but at the same time, I think if you want to see it get to that million-doll mark, it's going to take a little bit of time. We're looking at

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here really 20 years for this card to mature. So, I think it's the same thing that you would say 2040. Let's check back on this card then. Hopefully, I'm

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still around and kicking and uh and podcasting. Let's just have a look at here at the comments here. Jordan Kobe

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PSA cards. This card is more than a 52 Mickey Mantel. Just wild and just a bad investment. I get what you're saying on

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that one in terms of the 52 Mickey mantle. I think here obviously you need to talk about the population on this is is a one of one. I I think this is going

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to be the card of our generation. I really believe that this is the PMG of our generation. So I I personally disagree with that but respect to that.

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Thomas Lyle 8 when someone is trying to make this card as valuable or comparable as Jordan's PMG. Every stale is one day

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closer to a bubble burst. Yep. So again, respect that a lot. For a PSA 7, wow, people will pay for anything. Yeah,

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look, some cards the grade matters and some cards it just doesn't matter. This is the example of that. I think anything that's numbered, you really have to

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almost disregard what the PSA grading is. And in contrast to that, when something is unnumbered, PSA grading is

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everything. It it gives it the numbering. Let's move on to the Kobe PMG. Let's have a look at the comments on this cuz I really want to break this down a little bit more. A little bit of

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money laundering never hurt anybody. I'm not too sure I agree with that. I I think that this card is genuinely coveted. There's not many of them.

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There's only 10. And we've seen some of these lower played in these sets like the Keith Van Horn. We spoke about that recently. That sold for insane money. So

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once you get going to the Jordans, to the Kobes, to that really select elite few, I've got no problems with this at

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all. Socks go 2014. I owned that card in PSA 6 in 2002. I paid 5,000 for it and I

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sold it for 10,000. I thought I was genius. Yeah, that would this would really hurt, man, to see that card sold.

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Something fishy is going on. Scorpio, Picio, Cardonomic. Look, I'm not too sure about that. I think at the moment what's happening is it's not so much

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there's fishy stuff going on. There is some really big spenders coming into the high-end market. And we've spoken about Dennis Oir a lot and I think he's got a

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lot to say about this card. And I think he's potentially this could be a Wondershine card. He's inspiring other people to buy into this really high-end

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stuff. The other thing that I think is happening here potentially is that investment firms are putting money into basketball cards and high-end basketball

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cards in particular and then making investment lots that are comparable to stock portfolios and stuff like that.

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And I really think that it's been a big push into that space there. And we've also seen it with Pokémon too. though the Trump super refractor is now

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appraised at a million dollars on fanatics and that came from Cole Bart Romo. I'm not too sure how that actually plays out directly to this Kobe card,

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but that is some crazy money going into a Trump card. I have to agree with that.

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And this week's show, we're going to finish off with this card here. It is the LeBron James 2008 Topps Chrome Gold

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Refractor number to 50. This sold a week ago. This card for me is one of those elite cards that no matter what

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variation of this card that you purchase, whether it's base, whether it's raw, BGS, PSA, high grade, low

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grade, I don't care. This is the card that I think everyone should be buying one of them at the right price with the

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correct opportunity. And you just put this card away. This for me is one of those elite moments in sports cards, and

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I love this purchase so much. I think this card moving down the track, this is going to look like an absolute genius purchase. BGS 9.5. The population on

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this card is actually 25, which is really I'm genuinely surprised by that.

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I would love to see what the PSAs on this go for. $84,000 it sold for. I've got no problem with this at all. If this

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was a $100,000 card, I'll be like, no problems at all. This sold on Fanatics Premier and just in 6 months, it's

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actually up 27%. Again, I put this down to the high-end sports card market that is just going through an absolute boom at the moment. Cornm collectibles. So,

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you're telling me my grail is even more unattainable than before? Yeah, 100%.

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And and this can actually break your heart. And I think what happens here for collectors like that, you have to start looking further down the totem pole in

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terms of PSA7s, SGC5s, you know, whatever you can get your hands on. So, I agree with that. That's a tough one.

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Pika Z card collector gold. Could not agree with you more, my friend. All righty, guys. We're going to finish off here today with a message from Tik Tok.

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This came from Raasmozmo and the question goes, "Hey, mate, how are you going? Love the podcast, learn a lot. I

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collect cards not to flip. Was wondering if I was wasting my time in Laalo Ball and I was just wondering as I'm buying so many of his cards that one day I

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might need to get rid of them." Okay, this is a really fun question because it's really hard to balance out your PC

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versus being responsible and spending cards onto the right stuff. And I get it 100%. I get this question a lot because

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I'm the same with my Fox cards. I buy all of my Fox cards to PC them, but there's also a piece piece of small slither of thought in the back of my

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head. I'm like, I am going to have to sell some of these cards one day, even if it means selling two cards and buying one card. and you do want to make the right purchase and you don't want to

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flush your money down the toilet. So, I think the best thing to do on this one here is to look at this guy and zoom all the way back out. All right, so let's

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look at PSA 10s just because there's so many of them and let's look at all time.

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Let's look at this all time. Now, the question I have back to Rasmo is, you know, when did you start buying him?

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Because if you started buying him in 2022, you know, your collection is going to have felt a lot of pain. like it went down $2,500

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on one card in in about 12 months. So, if you were buying in 2002, which was the absolute peak and the absolute hype,

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man, I'm really sorry. However, if you started to buy in at about 2024, yeah, he might be up a little bit, he might be

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down a little bit. It's down about 100 bucks since 2024, but you can cope with that because that $100 variance, it's

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not fantastic. You would of course you would rather see it going the other way, but that's survival. You can you can keep going. You can keep building your collection when you see small swings

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like that. Let's look at the last 6 months. If you've been just been buying the last few months, you're doing really really well. He's actually up 45%. So

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that's the first thing is like when did you start and when did you stop buying it? For me, the really interesting thing about LaMelo Ball is the time that he

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came into the hobby. Because he came into the hobby when there was a lot of movement going on. Panini was making a lot of different cards. There's so many

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different sets for you to get your head around. So, I would start to focus down on more individual cards. So, what I

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mean by that is, let's just say you've got 10 silver rookie cards. I would sell five of those straight away. at the moment, it's a good time to sell him

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because he's up. We just spoke about that he's up about 45%. I would then start to look at some of the other cards that you get your hands on. And so, obviously here, I'm looking at the

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high-end stuff, but I just want to filter through some of this. And these are all time, so these are not current comps, but I'm just trying to do this in terms of what is out there and

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available. I would look at some of his vertical NT and flawless RPA. If you can't afford that, I would look at the

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horizontal flawless RPA. Particularly at the moment on auction, you will find that stuff, particularly the horizontal

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stuff, is quite obtainable even for $1,000 or so Aussie. It you'll be very, very surprised on that. I would also be looking at numbered Prism rookie cards.

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And again, if you can't afford the 10, don't sweat it. go and look at the numbered lower graded numbered stuff because that stuff look at the graphs

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over time on different cards on bigger cards over time that goes up. The other thing I would look at and this is what I want to actually focus in on now as part

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of this conversation. I would be looking at case hits, kabooms, downtowns and blank slates are the really big ones.

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Let's focus on that right now. Let's try and make it a bit more interesting in terms of we want to try and manage cost a little bit. 2020 Crown Royale

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population on a PSA 10 is 58 and last sold for 2,800. Let's go down to PSA 9.

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That last sold for 1,300. Very reasonable to get into. SGC 9.5.

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Population on that is three. That last sold for 1,300. You could look at doing some like alternative stuff like that. I think that's totally fine. Next up is

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the downtown. Really interesting. His college stuff is selling more frequently than his pro stuff is. All righty. So

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here, this sold on April the 27th. PSA 8 downtown from 2122 that sold for $1,200.

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There's a lot of college sales on here.

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It almost makes me think there some of these are shield. PSA 10 from 2020 to 2021 that sold for $2,289.

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All right, so that's two different case hits that we've just spoken about in addition to looking at his flawless horizontal RPA. And then I think the

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last one that we should talk about here is the downtown. All right, here we go.

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PSA 9, 2223, LaMelo Ball, Blank Slate, that last sold for $325.

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The PSA 10 from 2122 sold for $680. So again, we've just found another price point that you could sneak into. I really love these. I think they're

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beautiful cards. I think they're really well done. I think at that particular price point, that is absolutely fantastic and that you should be looking

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at those to at least have one of those into your collection. I would absolutely be digging into something like that there. Last thought about LaMelo Ball is

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whether his patches are gamew or not. I would focus on purchasing patches that are only gameworn. And I would also

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apply that to the RPA rule too. So during that time, that's when we started to see a lot more non-gameworn,

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non-eventwarm material being rolled out into products. And if I was collecting a player retrospectively, that's something I would also take into account for too.

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I think long-term gameworn, player warn material is going to have a lot more value. So Raasmo, I really hope you enjoyed that answer. I hope that's

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helped you out a lot. Thank you so much for writing into the show. I really appreciate it. We're going to tie this off here. I just do want to say one more

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thing. Thank you everybody for tuning in and listening to the show. It means the absolute world to me. The numbers on the downloads on the podcast the last few

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weeks have been insane. It has absolutely been popping. I probably need to check it a little bit more frequently and I probably need to look at my numbers a little bit more. So, I don't

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talk about this very often, but the numbers have been fantastic. So, guys, every single person out there who's listening to this, thank you so much for

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K. Have a wonderful day, guys. Take care of yourselves. I will catch you for the next one. Peace, guys. Bye-bye.

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