Luka Doncic rookie card sells for file $3.12 million at public sale

Early Friday morning, an especially uncommon Luka Doncic rookie card bought for $3.12 million with purchaser’s premium, probably the most ever paid for a basketball card at public public sale.

The 2018-19 Nationwide Treasures RPA (rookie patch autograph) Logoman options an on-card autograph and a player-worn NBA protect emblem — therefore, “Logoman” — and is numbered 1-of-1. This is similar Doncic Logoman that reportedly modified arms in a non-public sale in March of 2021 for $4.6 million — on the time, the costliest basketball card of all-time.

This was the primary time the Doncic Logoman hit the open market. The all-time file for a basketball card is the $5.2 million LeBron James RPA, brokered by PWCC in April of 2021. The Luka Logoman now accounts for, publicly and privately, the second and third highest costs ever realized for a basketball card. The $2.7 million Michael Jordan Higher Deck Recreation Jersey autographed patch card, bought in October of 2021, stays the fourth costliest.

“That is the very best value ever realized for a basketball card bought in a verified public public sale,” stated Jesse Craig, vice chairman of gross sales at PWCC. “This was an necessary second for the market to determine on the worth of Luka’s greatest buying and selling card. The cardboard stood by itself deserves [and] when you embody non-public gross sales, Luka now sits between the excessive gross sales for LeBron and Jordan. The market confirmed Luka is in uncommon air when it comes to collectability with this sale.”

The Luka Logoman, so far as this sale goes (per PWCC): is tied for seventh costliest buying and selling card ever bought at a public public sale; 14th costliest buying and selling card ever bought in public public sale or reported non-public sale; the costliest basketball buying and selling card bought this 12 months, public or non-public. (Rankings don’t embody non-public fractional purchases/valuations, versus gross sales numbers.)

In early November, Doncic, who’s in his fifth season with the Dallas Mavericks, grew to become the primary participant for the reason that 1962-63 season to notch 30-plus factors in every of a season’s first seven video games. He at present leads the NBA with 34.4 factors per recreation and a 33.1 participant effectivity ranking.