June Card Auction Ending June 5
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/5/2021
Graded GEM MINT 9.5 by BGS. Hall of Famer, in a scarce SP Rookie Card appearance. This sublime SP Rookie Jumbos offering shows a clean and stoic portrait of the Los Angeles Lakers icon Kobe Bryant. The former Lower Merion High School star played 20 seasons for Los Angeles, scoring 33,643 points and making 18 NBA All-Star Game rosters. “The Black Mamba” was posthumously elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2020. The card’s BGS condition report: Centering: 9.5, Corners: 9.5, Edges: 9, Surface: 9.5. Of the 11 examples of this card in the Beckett population report, this is one of five graded at its tier, with none graded higher. A significant and elite Kobe Bryant debut-year collectible, in eye-catching Gem Mint condition.