.Dave McMenamin, ESPN Personnel 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 the NBA for NBA.com from 2005-09. As unusual as it was for LeBron James, Stephen Sauce as well as Kevin Durant to team up for a handful of activities this summer, right now there is a collectable honoring their time together at the Paris Olympics that's also rarer.James, Sauce and also Durant are going to all sign a 1-of-1 Topps trading card featuring the gold-medal-winning triad in their reddish, white and blue Team USA attires that will certainly be actually delivered to a client at random who acquires the stars' bottom card coming from the firm." This memory card pays tribute to the incredible moment that our company viewed in the course of the Olympics where 3 of the best energetic basketball players incorporated to take away the gold award," Clay Luraschi, senior bad habit president of product at Topps, informed ESPN. "This particular memory card is special considering that you possess your normal variation and then you possess a sign model. There is actually been actually several sign cards throughout basketball investing card background, but this is the first time these 3 gamers have signed the exact same memory card. Thus, it creates it extremely one-of-a-kind.": Someone who gets a Topps Right now servile card coming from today's Team U.S.A. Gold Award video game are going to obtain this 1/1 Steph, LeBron, KD three-way auto.This memory card is the first ever:- LeBron Topps automobile- LeBron & Sauce automobile on the very same memory card- Steph/KD/LeBron tripleAnd to top it ... pic.twitter.com/zzoS6rJhK6u2014 Topps( @Topps )August 10, 2024 The bottom card was offered at 6:20 p.m. ET on Saturday-- quickly after the united state guys's baseball group's gold medal ceremony following its 98-87 sway France-- and also the investing in window will shut Tuesday at 6:20 p.m. ET, at which point Topps will combine a redemption card for the triple-auto at random for a blessed customer.The atonement memory card will definitely be delivered to the champion within 10 times of the shut of the sale, according to a Topps spokesperson.The bottom card featuring James, Sauce and Durant sells for$ 11.99. Editor's Picks2 RelatedIn latest years, cards featuring James' signature alonged with the signatures of Venue of Famers such as Michael Jordan or even Kobe Bryant have actually cost auction for tens of thousands of bucks." I assume the memory card is quickly 6 amounts," Ken Goldin, creator as well as CEO of Goldin Auctions, informed ESPN when requested for an estimate of the memory card's truly worth." Nonetheless, the reality it is not a [pack] pulled memory card limits its own worth." The card becomes part of the Topps Now plan that releases memory cards directly to individuals as seconds in sporting activities record unfurl, as opposed to with a standard card set that generally memorializes a particular season for a sports organization." The Topps Currently system sort of has actually reinvented the way our company carry out trading memory cards, and also a bunch of it pertained to modern technology as well as digital printing," Luraschi told ESPN." Thus, you manage to perform these products as needed, as well as you have the ability to supply them to the buyer a lot faster. Therefore, it makes the moments tremendously applicable." Topps Now was initiated by the firm in 2016. The program likewise discharged a number of other memory cards during Staff United States's run through the Paris Gamings, including one showing Sauce's 36-point flare-up in the semifinals against Serbia one honoring Durant becoming the everlasting leading scorer in united state Olympic basketball background and also among James and also tennis star Coco Gauff functioning as The United States's flag-bearers during the course of the position event.