From the greatest NBA draft class ever… to the most iconic basketball wax box of all time… to hockey’s crown-jewel product loaded with premium hits.

🏀 2003 Topps Chrome Basketball Factory Sealed Hobby Case (6 boxes) — chasing LeBron/Wade/Melo rookies + the big Chrome color.

🏀 1986 Fleer Basketball Unopened Wax Box (BBCE Auth) — the original Jordan 57 chase (plus a stacked Hall of Fame checklist).

🏒 2015 Upper Deck The Cup Hockey Factory Sealed Hobby Case (6 boxes) — McDavid rookie-year chase in the premier hockey release.

Ends Thursday in the Fanatics Premier Auction.

And fittingly, this 2017 Panini Eminence Farewell Diamond Gems Kobe Bryant Auto /5 closes in the Fanatics January Premier Auction on the 20-year anniversary of that game.

Hard-signed. Encased. Embedded diamond. Numbered to five.

Eminence did an all-Kobe tribute — and this one points directly at the moment everyone remembers.

Ends Thursday. 🖤💎

https://www.fanaticscollect.com/marketplace?type=PREMIER&featured=collection-Acquir&page=1&q=kobe

If 2025 proved anything, it’s that the top end of the hobby isn’t “having a moment.” It’s establishing a new baseline.

We watched seven-figure cards transact with real consistency, not just one-off headline sales, but a steady rhythm of demand at the absolute highest tier. In late December alone, a Michael Jordan/Kobe Bryant 2003 Upper Deck Exquisite Collection All NBA Access Pass Patch 1/1 (PSA 6) brought $3.172 million, and a Shohei Ohtani 2025 Topps Chrome Gold Logoman Autograph 1/1 hit $3 million. Then in mid-August, the market set a new ceiling: the Jordan/Bryant 2007 Upper Deck Exquisite Collection Dual Logoman Autograph 1/1 (PSA 6) sold for $12.932 million — the biggest sports card sale ever recorded, surpassing the $12.6 million 1952 Topps Mantle (SGC 9.5) from 2022.

That’s not a fluke. That’s a signal.

Read the full article here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/2026-outlook-why-best-market-isnt-cooling-off-jesse-craig-7l0pc/?trackingId=XmmtVrISPnAbS0fVhvZf%2FQ%3D%3D

1997 Flair Showcase Row 0 is one of those hobby “turning point” cards — the first serial-numbered base card era, and a cornerstone for late-90s collectors.

A PSA 10 Row 0 base just traded for just under $23K… and this is the card that takes that story and turns the difficulty up.

✅ Legacy Collection parallel of the historic Row 0
✅ Numbered /100
✅ That iconic Showcase look: multi-photo + foil foundation
✅ PSA 10 GEM MINT (Pop 6)
✅ No public PSA 10 sale since 2014

Second-year Kobe. True scarcity. And one of the cleanest designs of the decade.

Live in the Fanatics January Premier Auction.

That’s all. ✅🔥