The recruit of Dallas Mavericks, Cooper Flagg, will be the cover athlete for Basketball Topps 2025-26, the company announced on Thursday.
Scheduled to publish on October 23, the whole will be the First NBA licensed outing for topps since the 2009-10 season. The Fanatics of the Mother of Topps have taken up exclusive rights to make NBA commercial cards thanks to agreements with the League as well as the NBAPA on Wednesday.
Before October 1, Panini America was the exclusive manufacturer of NBA cards under license since 2009.
Breaking: Dallas Mavericks, the Cooper Flagg recruit will be the cover athlete for Basketball Topps 2025-26, which will be released on October 23.
Topps plans to organize launch events in selected places, including NBA stores in New York and La, to celebrate its first NBA cards under license since 2009. pic.twitter.com/rweponpihd
– Ben Burrows (@benmburrows) October 2, 2025
Topps plans to celebrate the return of NBA cards under license with a series of launch events in certain places on October 23, including NBA stores in New York and Los Angeles. Karl-Anthony Towns, Og Anunoby Karl-Anthony, Josh Harters and the actor Seth Meyers should appear in New York, and Clippers goalkeeper Chris Paul should appear in Los Angeles.
The next TOPPS to come from Topps to come is the last blanket of Flagg after previously having the headliner of college products, including Bowman Bowman 2024, 2024-25 Bowman University Bestball and 2024-25 Bowman University Chrome Sapphire Basketball.
Flagg enters his recruit season with Mavericks as one of the most popular basketball players among collectors. Its 2024-25 Bowman Chrome U Superfractor Autograph 1/1, which presents Flagg in its Duke uniform, Sold for $ 97,600 in June To define the record of any flagg card during public auctions.
According to Card Ladder records, Flagg has already had five cards for sale $ 50,000 or 44 sales of $ 10,000 and more.
The memories used by the Flagg game were also very coveted with his first summer league jersey Sell $ 95,250 at Sotheby’s in AugustAnd its NBA draft combines Jersey Recover $ 22,860 in July.
Flag signed an exclusive multi -year agreement with fanatics and topps In January for cards, autographs and memories carried by the game to insert in the cards.
Ben Burrows is a journalist and publisher for CLLCTThe first company culture company. He was previously the editor -in -chief of collectibles at Sports Illustrated. You can follow it on X and Instagram @benmburrows.
