Cooper Flagg rookie card sells for $8.04 million

A one-of-one autographed rookie card for Dallas Mavericks forward Cooper Flagg sold for $8.04 million in Fanatics Collect’s September Premier Auction, setting a record for a single-player basketball card, according to reported auction results. The sale followed 83 bids and exceeded the $7.25 million paid for a Honus Wagner card in 2022. The card, a 2026 Topps Chrome Update NBA Debut Patch autograph, was auctioned from September 10 until the early hours of September 25. Its price rose from $3.5 million to $8.04 million during the final hours of bidding. The patch was taken from Flagg’s jersey after his first NBA game, and the card carries his autograph. The sale is reported as the fifth-highest publicly known sports-card sale. Some rankings place it sixth overall when using a different mix of sales, including private transactions. The supplied reports do not include auction records or a common ranking dataset, so the precise all-time position depends on which sales are counted. The $8.04 million auction result itself was consistently reported.