Grand Slam Collectibles has added its own offer to the growing list of bounties for the Team USA Topps NOW card featuring a triple autograph from LeBron James, Steph Curry and Kevin Durant.
The high bid so far? Just $500,000 — if the card grades well enough.
According to a statement posted Wednesday afternoon, Grand Slam Collectibles, a card shop owned by hobbyist Nate Burns in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, is willing to pay the bounty as long as all three signatures secure PSA 10 or BGS 10 autograph grades.
We’ve just talked to our bankers. Just kidding that isn’t true. We are just here to DOUBLE the biggest offer, other than ours, to $500,000 ????. The only stipulation is all three autographs must be smudge free. Meaning @PSAcard or @beckettcollect 10 autographs.
— Only At Grand Slam (@ONLYATGRANDSLAM) August 21, 2024
No hassle! pic.twitter.com/cb2PKlNVl5
The bounty was an increase from the $300,000 offer Grand Slam had made just two hours prior. In Grand Slam’s original post, the shop made the offer while promising to avoid any additional “gimmicks or headaches” that could have potentially come from other bounties.
The bounty from Grand Slam follows a number of offers from high-profile collectors such as Ken Goldin, founder and CEO of Goldin Auctions, and Geoff Wilson, founder of Sports Card Investor and Market Movers.
Wilson’s first offer, $100,000 in cash and a “VIP experience,” was quickly topped by Goldin just three days later. Goldin offered $150,000 as a non-refundable cash advance before placing the card in Lot No. 1 of Goldin's next Elite Auction. Goldin also offered the possibility of appearing in a future episode of his Netflix show, “King of Collectibles.”
Wilson upped his offer Tuesday, this time as part of a partnership with Fanatics Collect and Sotheby’s that would have the card placed in next month’s “Holy Grails” auction in New York. Wilson’s offer includes a $250,000 irrevocable bid on the card, though it could sell for more through the auction.
Revealed shortly after Team USA’s victory over France in the men’s basketball gold-medal game, the card will randomly go to a purchaser of the Topps NOW base card featuring James, Curry and Durant.
Retailing for $11.99 per card, the card set a Topps NOW record with a print run of 588,035.
The card is the first to feature James, Curry and Durant. It’s also James’ first Topps autograph following decades with Upper Deck.
James’ first autograph under his Fanatics deal, a 2023 Bowman U Chrome Superfractor 1/1 Dual Autograph with his son, Bronny, sold for $114,000 in March.
Ben Burrows is a reporter and editor for cllct.