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Cooper Flagg rookie card sells for $8.04M, third-priciest NBA card ever

The Mavericks star's one-of-one Topps debut patch autograph card fetched a record price in a late-night Fanatics auction.

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What to know

  • Flagg's one-of-one Topps rookie debut patch autograph card sold for $8.04 million on Fanatics Collect early Friday, the third-highest price ever for an NBA card.
  • The price surpassed Flagg's previous record card sale of $366,000 by 20 times, and similar rookie patch cards for Dylan Harper and Kon Knueppel sold for $2.88M and $2.34M in the same auction.
  • The card was won by South Carolina resident Jason Williams via an online break; Williams chose to auction it through Fanatics rather than accept the Mavericks' bounty offer or other offers from wealthy collectors.

“Fanatics Collect vice president Kevin Lenane took a ferry from Port Jefferson, N.Y., to Bridgeport, Conn., and then hopped into an Uber to the card shop in Rhode Island.”

Yahoo Sports reporter · Yahoo Sports ↗

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Cooper Flagg rookie card sells for $8.04M, third-priciest NBA card ever
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  1. background

    Cooper Flagg rookie card sells for $8.04 million, third-highest NBA card ever — The Flagg card's bidding climbs from $3.5 million to $8.04 million over five hours, closing at 2 am Friday. The price makes it the third-most expensive NBA card ever, behind only dual cards of Michael Jordan-Kobe Bryant ($12.9M) and Michael Jordan-LeBron James (eight figures). Dylan Harper's RDPA sells for $2.88M and Kon Knueppel's for $2.34M in the same auction.

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    Fanatics Collect auction for Flagg card begins at $3.5 million

    The auction opens at 9 pm Eastern Time Thursday with a starting bid of $3.5 million on the Fanatics Collect platform.

    “BREAKING: The Cooper Flagg NBA Debut Patch autograph card has officially sold in our auction for $8,040,000.”
    — Fanatics Collect · source

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