.Dave McMenamin, ESPN Personnel WriterAug 12, 2024, 08:14 PM ETCloseLakers as well as NBA press reporter for ESPN.Dealt with the Lakers as well as NBA for ESPNLosAngeles.com from 2009-14, the Cavaliers from 2014-18 for ESPN.com and also the NBA for NBA.com from 2005-09. As rare as it was for LeBron James, Stephen Curry and also Kevin Durant to team up for a handful of activities this summer, now there is a collectable memorializing their opportunity all together at the Paris Olympics that's also rarer.James, Sauce and also Durant are going to all autograph a 1-of-1 Topps trading card including the gold-medal-winning trio in their red, white and also blue Staff United States uniforms that will definitely be actually delivered to a client randomly that buys the celebrities' foundation card coming from the company." This card pays tribute to the extraordinary minute that we found in the course of the Olympics where 3 of the greatest energetic baseball players mixed to take home the gold award," Clay-based Luraschi, elderly bad habit head of state of product at Topps, told ESPN. "This particular card is exclusive because you have your normal variation and after that you possess a sign model. There is actually been actually various signature memory cards throughout baseball exchanging memory card past history, yet this is actually the first time these three players have authorized the exact same memory card. Therefore, it makes it extremely special.": A person that buys a Topps Now servile card coming from today's Team U.S.A. Gold Medal activity will obtain this 1/1 Steph, LeBron, KD triple auto.This card is actually the first ever:- LeBron Topps vehicle- LeBron & Sauce auto on the exact same card- Steph/KD/LeBron tripleAnd to top it ... pic.twitter.com/zzoS6rJhK6u2014 Topps( @Topps )August 10, 2024 The bottom card was actually provided at 6:20 p.m. ET on Sunday-- not long after the united state men's basketball group's gold medal ceremony observing its 98-87 sway France-- and also the acquiring home window will certainly close Tuesday at 6:20 p.m. ET, at which point Topps are going to pair a redemption memory card for the triple-auto at random for a blessed customer.The atonement card will be actually delivered to the winner within 10 days of the close of the purchase, depending on to a Topps spokesperson.The base memory card including James, Sauce and also Durant retails for$ 11.99. Editor's Picks2 RelatedIn recent years, memory cards featuring James' signature alonged with the trademarks of Hall of Famers such as Michael Jordan or even Kobe Bryant have actually cost auction for 10s of lots of dollars." I presume the memory card is conveniently 6 figures," Ken Goldin, owner as well as CEO of Goldin Auctions, said to ESPN when requested for an estimate of the card's worth." However, the simple fact it is not a [pack] attracted memory card limits its market value." The memory card belongs to the Topps Now plan that releases memory cards directly to individuals as instants in sporting activities record unfurl, rather than by means of a traditional card set that commonly memorializes a specific period for a sporting activities league." The Topps Currently system type of has actually changed the way our company do trading memory cards, and a great deal of it involved modern technology as well as electronic printing," Luraschi told ESPN." Therefore, you have the capacity to perform these products as needed, and also you manage to supply all of them to the individual much a lot faster. Therefore, it creates the instants extremely appropriate." Topps Now was actually initiated by the provider in 2016. The program likewise launched several other cards in the course of Team USA's run through the Paris Video games, including one illustrating Sauce's 36-point episode in the semifinals versus Serbia one recognizing Durant ending up being the all-time leading marker in USA Olympic baseball past and one of James and tennis star Coco Gauff acting as America's flag-bearers during the course of the position event.