.Dave McMenamin, ESPN Team WriterAug 12, 2024, 08:14 PM ETCloseLakers and also NBA media reporter for ESPN.Dealt with the Lakers and NBA for ESPNLosAngeles.com from 2009-14, the Cavaliers from 2014-18 for ESPN.com and also the NBA for NBA.com coming from 2005-09. As unusual as it was actually for LeBron James, Stephen Sauce and Kevin Durant to collaborate for a handful of activities this summer months, currently there is actually a collectable memorializing their opportunity together at the Paris Olympics that is actually even rarer.James, Sauce and Durant will definitely all sign a 1-of-1 Topps trading card including the gold-medal-winning trio in their reddish, white as well as blue Staff United States attires that will definitely be actually delivered to a customer at random who purchases the stars' bottom memory card coming from the company." This memory card pays tribute to the awesome instant that our company viewed in the course of the Olympics where 3 of the greatest active basketball players incorporated to take home the gold award," Clay Luraschi, senior bad habit head of state of product at Topps, informed ESPN. "This particular memory card is exclusive since you possess your normal variation and afterwards you possess a signature variation. There's been actually various sign memory cards throughout basketball trading memory card past, yet this is actually the first time these three gamers have signed the very same memory card. Thus, it makes it very distinct.": Someone that buys a Topps Right now base memory card coming from today's Staff United States Gold Medal game will definitely receive this 1/1 Steph, LeBron, KD three-way auto.This memory card is the very first:- LeBron Topps car- LeBron & Sauce car on the exact same memory card- Steph/KD/LeBron tripleAnd to cover it ... pic.twitter.com/zzoS6rJhK6u2014 Topps( @Topps )August 10, 2024 The base card was provided at 6:20 p.m. ET on Saturday-- quickly after the USA males's basketball crew's gold medal ceremony following its 98-87 get France-- and also the buying home window are going to finalize Tuesday at 6:20 p.m. ET, at which point Topps will definitely match a redemption memory card for the triple-auto at random for a privileged customer.The redemption card will definitely be actually delivered to the winner within 10 times of the shut of the sale, depending on to a Topps spokesperson.The foundation card including James, Sauce as well as Durant sells for$ 11.99. Editor's Picks2 RelatedIn current years, cards featuring James' autograph alonged with the signatures of Hall of Famers such as Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant have actually sold at auction for 10s of lots of dollars." I assume the card is easily six figures," Ken Goldin, creator and also CEO of Goldin Auctions, informed ESPN when asked for an evaluation of the card's really worth." Having said that, the reality it is actually certainly not a [pack] drew memory card hats its worth." The memory card is part of the Topps Now program that discharges cards directly to consumers as minutes in sports background unfold, rather than through a typical memory card prepared that generally honors a certain season for a sporting activities organization." The Topps Currently course sort of has revolutionized the means we carry out trading memory cards, and also a bunch of it concerned technology and also digital publishing," Luraschi informed ESPN." Therefore, you have the capacity to perform these products as needed, and you're able to deliver all of them to the buyer a lot quicker. Therefore, it makes the instants tremendously appropriate." Topps Now was launched due to the provider in 2016. The plan also released many other cards throughout Crew U.S.A.'s gone through the Paris Games, consisting of one representing Sauce's 36-point frenzy in the semifinals against Serbia one recognizing Durant ending up being the everlasting leading scorer in USA Olympic basketball past and one of James and also tennis celebrity Coco Gauff acting as The United States's flag-bearers during the opening event.