Oct 22, 2026 9:56 PM
PrizePicks acquired the record-breaking one-of-one card and is giving collectors a chance to win it through a new digital pack product, with prices starting at $1.
The most expensive single-player basketball card ever sold is available to the public again, roughly four weeks after it changed hands for $8.04 million.
PrizePicks, the daily fantasy sports company, revealed Wednesday that it was the buyer of Cooper Flagg’s one-of-one 2025-26 Topps Chrome Update Rookie Debut Patch Autograph. Rather than displaying it or locking it away, PrizePicks is putting the card into PrizePicks Packs, a new digital repack product that launched alongside the announcement.
That means anyone can chase it and packs start at $1.
The structure works like a lottery crossed with a card break, buyers purchase a digital pack, open it online and receive one real trading card. PrizePicks offers nine tiers, ranging from a $1 Basic pack to a $2,500 Diamond pack, with the odds of pulling higher-value cards improving as buyers spend more. Every tier offers at least some chance of pulling the Flagg card, though at the entry level, that chance is roughly one in 60 million, considerably worse than the odds of winning most state lottery jackpots.
The Flagg card is not alone at the top of the prize pool. PrizePicks also acquired the one-of-one Debut Patch Autographs of Dylan Harper and Kon Knueppel, which sold for $2.88 million and $2.34 million, respectively, in the same September auction. All three are now in circulation through the same product, along with a 1998 Pokémon Illustrator Pikachu card valued at more than $2.8 million.
Collectors who pull something significant have options. PrizePicks is offering a 100% fair market value buyback, meaning a winner can cash out immediately rather than arrange storage and insurance for a multimillion-dollar asset. Anyone who wants the physical card can request shipment instead. The product is available in all 50 states and buyers can see the odds for each rarity tier before purchasing.
This card's journey is already remarkable. It was pulled in late August by a collector who bought a $515 spot in a live break run by RhodyBreakers, the card-breaking arm of Baseball Cards of Rhode Island in North Kingstown.
What followed was a bidding war, the Mavericks offered an experience package built around decades of season tickets and access to meeting Flagg himself. Ken Goldin offered a $1.5 million cash advance. The collector turned down both offers and went to auction.
The Fanatics Collect listing drew 83 bids, passed $1 million within 49 minutes and then climbed from $3.5 million to $8.04 million over a five-hour stretch at the end. The final price set records for the most expensive single-player basketball card, the most expensive debut patch and the most expensive Mavericks card ever sold. Only two cards in NBA history have fetched more, both dual-subject cards pairing Michael Jordan with LeBron James and Kobe Bryant.
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