{"id":905652,"date":"2026-09-26T01:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T01:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/905652\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T01:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T01:50:10","slug":"cooper-flaggs-8-04-million-rookie-debut-patch-card-breaks-nba-auction-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/905652\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper Flagg’s $8.04 Million Rookie Debut Patch Card Breaks NBA Auction Record"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the early morning hours of September 25 (Friday), Cooper Flagg\u2019s<\/a> rookie debut patch card was sold for a whopping $8.04 million after a two-week auction ended in an intense bidding war.<\/p>\n

This sale makes it the most expensive single-player rookie debut patch card ever sold, breaking the previous record held by the Pittsburgh Pirates\u2019 Paul Skenes ($1.1 million).<\/p>\n

It also becomes the most expensive single-player card ever sold. Only two cards have sold for more: the LeBron James<\/a>\u2013Michael Jordan<\/a> ($10 million) duo card and the Kobe Bryant<\/a>-Jordan ($12.9 million) card.<\/p>\n

After 83 bids over two weeks, the final five hours saw an intense battle for the one-of-a-kind memorabilia. According to Fanatics, the card\u2019s price at 9 PM on Thursday was still $3.5 million<\/a>. But over the next five hours, it shot up to its eventual sale price by 2 AM.<\/p>\n

This also beats the previous record for the most expensive Cooper Flagg card ever sold by approximately $7.7 million (previous record: $366,000).\u00a0The Mavericks<\/a> may have contributed to that card\u2019s exorbitant value.<\/p>\n

In early August, the Mavericks made a \u2018bounty\u2019 trade offer open to the general public for whoever found the Cooper Flagg card. It included A signed, game-worn Flagg rookie jersey and a postgame photo with the star, along with two Mavericks season premium lower-level tickets for 32 years.<\/p>\n

They would also receive round-trip airfare, hotel accommodations, and game tickets for their road trip to see the Mavericks play the Celtics. The package also included a private photo shoot with Flagg\u2019s Rookie of the Year trophy from last year, the Larry O\u2019Brien Trophy, a team meet-and-greet, and a VIP tour of Dallas\u2019 practice facility.<\/p>\n

According to Fanatics, Flagg\u2019s card belonged to collector Jason Williams of South Carolina and was pulled in a break by Rhody Breakers in Rhode Island. In the end, he used Fanatics Collect to auction off the card, which he originally acquired for just $515<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cooper Flagg heard about this sale and responded with just six words.<\/p>\n

\u201cSounds like they got a steal,\u201d Flagg said<\/a>. The card commemorates Flagg\u2019s debut performance in the league, where he had 10 points and 10 rebounds in the Mavericks\u2019 125-92 loss<\/a> to the Spurs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Two other debut patch cards, from the Spurs guard Dylan Harper<\/a> and the Hornets<\/a> sharpshooter Kon Knueppel<\/a>, sold for $2.88 million and $2.34 million, respectively, at the same auction.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Cedric Coward and Ace Bailey<\/a>\u2018s debut patch cards are expected to fetch seven figures as well ($1.5 million estimated<\/a> sale price).\u00a0But clearly, Cooper Flagg\u2019s card headlined the auction and stole the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the early morning hours of September 25 (Friday), Cooper Flagg\u2019s rookie debut patch card was sold for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":905653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-905652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}