.Dave McMenamin, ESPN Team WriterAug 12, 2024, 08:14 PM ETCloseLakers as well as NBA media reporter for ESPN.Dealt with the Lakers and also NBA for ESPNLosAngeles.com from 2009-14, the Cavaliers coming from 2014-18 for ESPN.com and the NBA for NBA.com from 2005-09. As rare as it was actually for LeBron James, Stephen Sauce and Kevin Durant to team up for a handful of activities this summertime, currently there is actually a collectable celebrating their opportunity with each other at the Paris Olympics that's even rarer.James, Curry and Durant are going to all autograph a 1-of-1 Topps trading card featuring the gold-medal-winning triad in their red, white and also blue Crew USA attires that will be sent out to a customer randomly who buys the superstars' foundation card coming from the provider." This card commemorates the astonishing instant that our experts viewed during the course of the Olympics where three of the best energetic basketball gamers blended to take away the gold award," Clay Luraschi, elderly vice president of product at Topps, informed ESPN. "This particular card is actually exclusive since you possess your regular variation and then you possess a sign model. There is actually been actually several sign cards throughout basketball trading memory card past, however this is actually the very first time these three players have authorized the very same memory card. Thus, it creates it extremely one-of-a-kind.": Someone that gets a Topps Currently base card from today's Group U.S.A. Gold Award video game will certainly get this 1/1 Steph, LeBron, KD three-way auto.This memory card is actually the first ever:- LeBron Topps automotive- LeBron & Sauce car on the exact same card- Steph/KD/LeBron tripleAnd to cover it ... pic.twitter.com/zzoS6rJhK6u2014 Topps( @Topps )August 10, 2024 The bottom card was actually made available at 6:20 p.m. ET on Sunday-- soon after the USA males's baseball group's gold award event following its own 98-87 sway France-- and also the acquiring home window will certainly finalize Tuesday at 6:20 p.m. ET, whereupon Topps will couple a redemption card for the triple-auto at random for a privileged customer.The redemption memory card will definitely be actually sent to the champion within 10 days of the close of the sale, according to a Topps spokesperson.The base card including James, Curry and also Durant retails for$ 11.99. Publisher's Picks2 RelatedIn current years, cards featuring James' sign alonged with the trademarks of Hall of Famers such as Michael Jordan or even Kobe Bryant have cost public auction for tens of countless dollars." I assume the card is simply 6 numbers," Ken Goldin, founder and also CEO of Goldin Auctions, said to ESPN when requested an estimate of the card's well worth." However, the simple fact it is certainly not a [pack] drew card hats its worth." The memory card is part of the Topps Currently program that discharges cards directly to customers as seconds in sporting activities background unfold, as opposed to via a conventional card set that typically honors a certain season for a sports game." The Topps Currently course kind of has actually revolutionized the means our team do trading memory cards, and also a great deal of it concerned innovation and also electronic publishing," Luraschi informed ESPN." Thus, you're able to perform these products as needed, and also you have the capacity to supply all of them to the consumer much quicker. Thus, it makes the moments super applicable." Topps Now was actually launched due to the firm in 2016. The program additionally discharged several other cards throughout Group U.S.A.'s run through the Paris Games, including one illustrating Sauce's 36-point frenzy in the semifinals against Serbia one honoring Durant becoming the all-time leading marker in united state Olympic basketball history and one of James and also tennis superstar Coco Gauff functioning as The United States's flag-bearers in the course of the position service.