Something tells me the resellers won’t be making me an offer at the game today.

Some of you may have seen but it was announced this AM that Alexis Ohanian bought ONIT, the college sports card company, and I'm joining as CEO.

I'm really excited- I'm so passionate about this hobby, have been for as long as I can remember, and to get a chance to actually run a card company is a dream come true. Check out the site if you aren't familiar-

I wanted to send this group a message as soon as the news was out there, and also make sure I conveyed that I'm not leaving Mantel, and our investors are still committed to seeing us build something great.

Just excited to keep doing fun things in this hobby!

Been working on a rainbow for a very long time and a /20 went up on eBay yesterday, the first time I've seen one. But there are a few red flags, and I'd love some advice.

- The seller joined eBay in March 2026 and has 0 feedback so far
- I made an offer on the card and the seller countered at his original price (so he didn't decline my offer... he just countered at full price. Either a passive-aggressive move or the seller doesn't really know eBay)
- They are based in Australia, so expensive shipping/basically impossible to return if something is amiss

It's a $50 card so not exactly the type of thing you create a new account for just to scam someone. And again, I'm like a year into this rainbow and this is the first /20 I've seen, so I hesitate to walk away and miss out on the card.

How big are the red flags relative to the opportunity/risk?

Can’t believe we launched Streaks 500 days ago! Definitely the longest streak of any kind I’ve ever kept up!

I went to an eBay Live event yesterday for All Star week, where they were showing off an insane Kobe game worn ASG jersey (2011, from his final ASG game in LA where he won MVP), some amazing cards and a few graded Slam Magazine covers.

They had a panel featuring our friends @Buster and Josh Luber, along with the Slam editor, Karvin Cheung (creator of Exquisite) and Andy Bernstein, the legendary NBA photographer.

At the end of the panel Andy asked a trivia question- name the one non player with a jersey hung in the rafters at Crypto.com, and I was the winner.

The answer? Chick Hearn. And if you’ve seen my sports broadcaster PC you know why I got that right!

Andy gave me the new Mamba & Mambacita Forever book, which he created with Vanessa Bryant. All about the murals of Kobe and Gigi around the world- they seem to be on every block here in LA. Part of the fabric of the city.

Really fun event and very cool to add this book to my collection (along with his great book, The Mamba Mentality), and get some time with Andy, who is as responsible for telling the story of the last 40 years of basketball than anyone else on earth.