It took NBA star Cooper Flagg less than a year to produce one of the most valuable basketball cards of all time.<\/p>\n
Just ahead of his second NBA season, Flagg, the No. 1 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft, saw his Topps Rookie Debut Patch Auto card sell for $8.04 million in the September Premier Auction at Fanatics Collect. The RPA card, which was up for bid from Sept. 10-24, attracted 83 bids and featured an intense bidding war on the final day, climbing from $3.5 million to $8.04 million from 9 p.m. Thursday until 2 a.m. Friday.<\/p>\n
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The card is the third-highest sale ever of an NBA card and the most expensive card featuring a single NBA player. The Flagg rookie trails only the 2007-08 Upper Deck Exquisite Michael Jordan\/Kobe Bryant Dual Logoman Autographs card that sold for $12.9 million in 2025, and the 2006-07 Upper Deck Exquisite Michael Jordan\/LeBron James Dual Logoman Auto that sold for $10 million. Steph Curry\u2019s 2009-10 Panini National Treasures Rookie Logoman Auto is fourth at $5.9 million.<\/p>\n
The Flagg card is also the most expensive Topps Debut Patch card, surpassing Paul Skenes\u2019 MLB Debut Patch Auto, which sold for $1.1 million.<\/p>\n
Two other NBA Debut Rookie Patch cards also set records, with Dylan Harper\u2019s RPA selling for $2.88 million and Kon Knueppel\u2019s Debut RPA going for $2.34 million. They are the three highest selling Debut Patch Auto cards since Topps introduced the coveted chase cards with the MLB cards in 2021.<\/p>\n
The heralded 2025-26 NBA Rookie class was the first to wear the Rookie Debut patches on their first NBA jerseys. After their first NBA game, the patches were removed and embedded in a 1\/1 Topps Chrome autograph card for each player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It took NBA star Cooper Flagg less than a year to produce one of the most valuable basketball…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":843727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,225,226,968,6,12,99747,3082,99748],"class_list":["post-843726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba-draft","tag-basketball","tag-cooper-flagg","tag-dylan-harper","tag-kon-knueppel","tag-nba","tag-nba-draft","tag-nba-rookie-debut-patch-auto-cards","tag-topps","tag-topps-chrome-basketball"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117332906021179381","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}