{"id":39769,"date":"2021-03-01T04:52:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T05:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=39769"},"modified":"2021-03-01T06:57:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T06:57:10","slug":"insane-buy-breaks-nba-basketball-card-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=39769","title":{"rendered":"Insane buy breaks NBA basketball card record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sports card collector has forked out close to $5.93 million on a rookie card of Dallas Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic, breaking the record for the biggest sum ever paid for a basketball card.<\/p>\n<p>The card was sold to a collector and investor who shattered the previous record, with LeBron James and Giannis Antetokounmpo cards last year fetching $2.32 million and $2.34 million respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The Doncic card, made by Panini America, who is the current leader in NBA card manufacturing, is a <em>2018-19 National Treasures Luka Doncic Rookie Auto Logoman 1\/1<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Panini currently produces many variants of rookie cards for players, but this card in particular is a &#x27;one of one&#x27; and comes from the &#x27;National Treasures&#x27; collection, which is one of the more expensive basketball card sets where fans spend their money.<\/p>\n<p>The transaction was confirmed today on Instagram, with a picture of the invoice and cheque Bolillo Lajan San, who has more than 15,000 followers and describes himself as a collector\/investor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CL2k3MtH2uU\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-instagram\" data-show-caption=\"true\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CL2k3MtH2uU\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The caption of the Instagram post read: &quot;I have to make it public.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Many heard there was a deal brewing since back in November of 2020 for the 2018-19 National Treasures Luka Doncic Rc Auto Logoman 1\/1.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Even though there was a few adjustments to the sale price since then, today my new business partner\/friend and I have finalised the deal at (USD)4.6 million for the card.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Since making his NBA debut during the 2018-19 NBA season, Doncic has emerged as one of the biggest superstars in the league.<\/p>\n<p>To date, he&#x27;s earned two All-Star selections, one NBA all first-team selection and was crowned Rookie of the Year in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"c9f1a584-1c13-420a-94b4-33c819507a41\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/c9f1a584-1c13-420a-94b4-33c819507a41\" alt=\"Luke Doncic, National Treasures Auto Logoman 1\/1 card\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A sports card collector has forked out close to $5.93 million on a rookie card of Dallas Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic, breaking the record for <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=39769\" title=\"Insane buy breaks NBA basketball card record\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39771,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39769\/revisions\/39771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}