.Dave McMenamin, ESPN Workers 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 coming from 2009-14, the Cavaliers coming from 2014-18 for ESPN.com as well as the NBA for NBA.com coming from 2005-09. As rare as it was for LeBron James, Stephen Sauce as well as Kevin Durant to collaborate for a handful of games this summer months, right now there is a collectable honoring their time all together at the Paris Olympics that is actually also rarer.James, Curry and Durant will certainly all autograph a 1-of-1 Topps trading card featuring the gold-medal-winning trio in their red, white colored and also blue Group U.S.A. attires that are going to be sent out to a customer at random who buys the stars' bottom card from the firm." This card pays tribute to the incredible instant that our team observed throughout the Olympics where three of the best energetic basketball gamers mixed to take home the gold award," Clay Luraschi, senior vice head of state of item at Topps, said to ESPN. "This particular memory card is exclusive because you possess your routine version and then you have a signature model. There's been several signature cards throughout baseball exchanging memory card past, yet this is actually the very first time these three gamers have actually authorized the exact same card. Therefore, it makes it extremely distinct.": A person who purchases a Topps Right now servile card coming from today's Crew USA Gold Medal video game will definitely receive this 1/1 Steph, LeBron, KD three-way auto.This memory card is the very first:- LeBron Topps auto- LeBron & Sauce vehicle on the very same card- Steph/KD/LeBron tripleAnd to top it ... pic.twitter.com/zzoS6rJhK6u2014 Topps( @Topps )August 10, 2024 The foundation card was actually provided at 6:20 p.m. ET on Saturday-- shortly after the united state guys's basketball group's gold award ceremony observing its 98-87 win over France-- and also the acquiring window are going to close Tuesday at 6:20 p.m. ET, at which point Topps are going to match a redemption memory card for the triple-auto at random for a lucky customer.The redemption card will be sent out to the winner within 10 days of the close of the sale, depending on to a Topps spokesperson.The base card featuring James, Curry as well as Durant sells for$ 11.99. Editor's Picks2 RelatedIn recent years, cards including James' sign alonged with the trademarks of Venue of Famers like Michael Jordan or even Kobe Bryant have actually cost public auction for 10s of countless dollars." I assume the memory card is actually easily 6 amounts," Ken Goldin, founder as well as chief executive officer of Goldin Public auctions, told ESPN when sought an estimate of the card's worth." Nonetheless, the simple fact it is actually certainly not a [pack] pulled memory card limits its worth." The memory card becomes part of the Topps Right now system that launches cards straight to buyers as moments in sporting activities background unravel, rather than by means of a standard card specified that normally memorializes a certain season for a sporting activities game." The Topps Right now program sort of has actually reinvented the method our company carry out trading memory cards, and a lot of it concerned modern technology as well as digital publishing," Luraschi told ESPN." Thus, you have the ability to perform these items as needed, and you're able to provide all of them to the customer a lot a lot faster. Thus, it makes the minutes tremendously applicable." Topps Now was actually initiated by the business in 2016. The system additionally discharged numerous various other cards during the course of Staff U.S.A.'s run through the Paris Games, consisting of one illustrating Sauce's 36-point flare-up in the semifinals against Serbia one recognizing Durant ending up being the everlasting leading scorer in USA Olympic baseball past history and also among James as well as tennis celebrity Coco Gauff acting as The United States's flag-bearers in the course of the position ceremony.