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07-13-2010, 11:47 AM
Obscure LeBron James/Dwyane Wade/Chris Bosh Card Enjoys 500% Increase
July 13, 2010, 11:44 am
03-04 TOPPS MATRIX RC OF JAMES WADE BOSH HEAT - eBay (item 270606868595 end time Jul-19-10 15:06:49 PDT) (http://cgi.ebay.com/03-04-TOPPS-MATRIX-RC-JAMES-WADE-BOSH-HEAT-/270606868595?cmd=ViewItem&pt=US_Basketball&hash=item3f016d2073)
Leave it to Miami’s men of the moment – LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh – to transform an utterly forgettable 6-year-old eyesore into the single hottest basketball trading card on the market.
Indeed, while South Florida’s hoops-collecting populace was waiting impatiently for the first cards featuring James, Wade and Bosh together, those with a little more market savvy and a lot more memory began scouring their 2003-04 Topps Rookie Matrix stashes for the one that already existed.
Last week that card was valued at $20. Today it’s valued at $100. And when the new issue of Beckett Basketball hits the market later this month, the convoluted Rookie Card will also be No. 1 on the Hot List, ahead of key Rookie Cards of five-time NBA champion and 2010 Finals MVP Kobe Bryant and 2009-10 Rookie of the Year Tyreke Evans.
For those counting at home, that virtually-overnight ascension from $20 to $100 represents a 500 percent increase. Not bad for a set that was an afterthought not long after it was released in April of 2004.
Simply put, the 2003-04 Topps Rookie Matrix product was a conflicted mess whose one redeeming quality – this card – has perhaps forever changed the set’s legacy for the better.
The product spread 33 rookie players in various combinations across 110 perforated Rookie Cards, a nod to the famous 1980-81 Topps Rookie Card of Larry Bird and Magic Johnson that also included Julius Erving. It also utilized a design that wasn’t well-received among veteran collectors.
Original promotional material for Topps Rookie Matrix billed the product’s aesthetic as a “trendy, ultra-modern videogame-like design that is sure to be a slam dunk among young collectors.”
It wasn’t much of a slam dunk among anyone. For the record, Topps officials shelved the product after one year, but not before it could produce one bona fide keeper of a card that took six years to mature.
Obscure LeBron James/Dwyane Wade/Chris Bosh Card Enjoys 500% Increase The Beckett Blog (http://blogbeckett.wordpress.com/2010/07/13/obscure-lebron-jamesdwyane-wadechris-bosh-card-enjoys-500-increase/)
July 13, 2010, 11:44 am
03-04 TOPPS MATRIX RC OF JAMES WADE BOSH HEAT - eBay (item 270606868595 end time Jul-19-10 15:06:49 PDT) (http://cgi.ebay.com/03-04-TOPPS-MATRIX-RC-JAMES-WADE-BOSH-HEAT-/270606868595?cmd=ViewItem&pt=US_Basketball&hash=item3f016d2073)
Leave it to Miami’s men of the moment – LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh – to transform an utterly forgettable 6-year-old eyesore into the single hottest basketball trading card on the market.
Indeed, while South Florida’s hoops-collecting populace was waiting impatiently for the first cards featuring James, Wade and Bosh together, those with a little more market savvy and a lot more memory began scouring their 2003-04 Topps Rookie Matrix stashes for the one that already existed.
Last week that card was valued at $20. Today it’s valued at $100. And when the new issue of Beckett Basketball hits the market later this month, the convoluted Rookie Card will also be No. 1 on the Hot List, ahead of key Rookie Cards of five-time NBA champion and 2010 Finals MVP Kobe Bryant and 2009-10 Rookie of the Year Tyreke Evans.
For those counting at home, that virtually-overnight ascension from $20 to $100 represents a 500 percent increase. Not bad for a set that was an afterthought not long after it was released in April of 2004.
Simply put, the 2003-04 Topps Rookie Matrix product was a conflicted mess whose one redeeming quality – this card – has perhaps forever changed the set’s legacy for the better.
The product spread 33 rookie players in various combinations across 110 perforated Rookie Cards, a nod to the famous 1980-81 Topps Rookie Card of Larry Bird and Magic Johnson that also included Julius Erving. It also utilized a design that wasn’t well-received among veteran collectors.
Original promotional material for Topps Rookie Matrix billed the product’s aesthetic as a “trendy, ultra-modern videogame-like design that is sure to be a slam dunk among young collectors.”
It wasn’t much of a slam dunk among anyone. For the record, Topps officials shelved the product after one year, but not before it could produce one bona fide keeper of a card that took six years to mature.
Obscure LeBron James/Dwyane Wade/Chris Bosh Card Enjoys 500% Increase The Beckett Blog (http://blogbeckett.wordpress.com/2010/07/13/obscure-lebron-jamesdwyane-wadechris-bosh-card-enjoys-500-increase/)