.Dave McMenamin, ESPN Workers WriterAug 12, 2024, 08:14 PM ETCloseLakers and also NBA press reporter for ESPN.Covered the Lakers and NBA for ESPNLosAngeles.com from 2009-14, the Cavaliers coming from 2014-18 for ESPN.com as well as the NBA for NBA.com from 2005-09. As uncommon as it was actually for LeBron James, Stephen Sauce as well as Kevin Durant to team up for a handful of activities this summer season, now there is a collectable celebrating their opportunity with each other at the Paris Olympics that is actually also rarer.James, Curry as well as Durant will all signature a 1-of-1 Topps trading card featuring the gold-medal-winning trio in their reddish, white as well as blue Staff USA outfits that will definitely be sent to a client randomly that buys the celebrities' bottom memory card from the provider." This card commemorates the awesome moment that our company saw during the course of the Olympics where 3 of the best energetic basketball gamers combined to take home the gold medal," Clay Luraschi, senior vice president of item at Topps, said to ESPN. "This certain memory card is actually exclusive due to the fact that you possess your routine model and then you have a sign model. There is actually been actually various sign cards throughout basketball trading memory card past, yet this is actually the very first time these three players have authorized the very same card. Therefore, it makes it very one-of-a-kind.": An individual that gets a Topps Right now base card from today's Staff USA Gold Award video game will definitely receive this 1/1 Steph, LeBron, KD triple auto.This memory card is actually the very first:- LeBron Topps automobile- LeBron & Sauce vehicle on the exact same memory card- Steph/KD/LeBron tripleAnd to cover it ... pic.twitter.com/zzoS6rJhK6u2014 Topps( @Topps )August 10, 2024 The bottom memory card was actually offered at 6:20 p.m. ET on Saturday-- not long after the USA men's baseball group's gold medal service following its 98-87 get France-- and the investing in home window will close Tuesday at 6:20 p.m. ET, whereupon Topps are going to pair an atonement memory card for the triple-auto randomly for a privileged customer.The redemption memory card will certainly be sent to the victor within 10 times of the close of the sale, depending on to a Topps spokesperson.The base card featuring James, Curry and Durant retails for$ 11.99. Editor's Picks2 RelatedIn current years, memory cards including James' signature accompanied by the signatures of Venue of Famers like Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant have cost public auction for tens of lots of dollars." I believe the memory card is conveniently six bodies," Ken Goldin, owner and also chief executive officer of Goldin Public auctions, informed ESPN when sought an estimation of the card's well worth." Nonetheless, the truth it is certainly not a [pack] pulled memory card limits its own worth." The card is part of the Topps Now system that discharges cards directly to buyers as instants in sporting activities past history unravel, as opposed to with a standard memory card established that normally memorializes a particular period for a sports organization." The Topps Now course type of has revolutionized the way our team perform trading memory cards, and also a bunch of it had to do with modern technology as well as electronic publishing," Luraschi said to ESPN." So, you manage to carry out these products on demand, as well as you manage to supply all of them to the buyer a lot a lot faster. Therefore, it makes the seconds extremely pertinent." Topps Now was actually triggered by the provider in 2016. The plan also discharged many various other cards during Crew U.S.A.'s run through the Paris Games, featuring one showing Sauce's 36-point episode in the semifinals against Serbia one recognizing Durant ending up being the enduring leading marker in U.S. Olympic basketball background and also among James and also tennis celebrity Coco Gauff functioning as United States's flag-bearers during the position ceremony.