Subtitle: Anticipated Release Date and Key Card Highlights
Meta Description: Discover the 2025-26 Topps Chrome Basketball release, featuring rookie card values and anticipated configurations. Learn about Topps' return to NBA cards and key inserts.
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What's New
The 2025-26 Topps Chrome Basketball collection is slated for release on Thursday, December 18, shortly after the initial launch of Topps flagship Basketball on October 23. This is Topps' first NBA-licensed basketball card offering since 2009. The flagship edition experienced high demand across cases, boxes, hangers, packs, and singles, with particular interest in the Topps Chrome First Day Issue boxes released on December 15. The forthcoming Chrome release is expected to sustain this momentum, especially for the base rookie cards.
Configuration at a Glance
- Product: 2025-26 Topps Chrome Basketball
- Release Date: December 18
- Format: Hobby boxes, retail boxes, hangers, packs, singles
- Key Hits: Base rookie cards, Chrome parallels
- Noteworthy: First licensed Topps NBA product since 2009
- Popular Interest: Base rookie cards and their Chrome parallels
Key Inserts & Parallels
- Flagship and Chrome parallels are eagerly awaited
- Key inserts in the flagship collection include Comic Court, Sonic Boom, All Kings, and 8-Bit Ballers (not included in the base rookie card list provided below)
Autographs & Relics
- The article did not provide details on autographs and memorabilia cards
Bonus Rookie Cards to Watch
- Jeremiah Fears - New Orleans Pelicans (2025-26 Topps #207 RC)
- Card values (EX to Mint): $0.75 to $5
- Cedric Coward - Memphis Grizzlies (2025-26 Topps #211 RC)
- Card values (EX to Mint): $0.75 to $5
- Derik Queen - New Orleans Pelicans (2025-26 Topps #213 RC)
- Card values (EX to Mint): $0.75 to $5
Top 10 Most Valuable 2025-26 Topps Rookie Basketball Cards
- Tre Johnson - Washington Wizards (2025-26 Topps #206 Tre Johnson III RC)
- Position: Shooting Guard
- Season stats: 11.2 points per game, 39.8 percent 3-point shooting, started 4 of 17 games
- Ace Bailey - Utah Jazz (2025-26 Topps #205 Ace Bailey RC)
- Position: Small Forward
- Drafted: 5th overall in 2025
- Season stats: 10.0 points per game, started 16 of 25 games
- Card values (EX to Mint): $1 to $5
- Dylan Harper - San Antonio Spurs
- Position: Shooting Guard
- Drafted: 2nd overall
- Season stats: 13.1 points per game, 21.9 minutes per game, no starts yet
- Card values (EX to Mint): $1 to $6
- RC and Holiday RC rank seventh and eighth on OPG list
- Kon Knueppel - Charlotte Hornets
- Position: Small Forward
- Drafted: 4th overall
- College: Duke
- Season stats: 19.0 points per game, 40.5 percent from three
- Recent performances: 33 points vs. Chicago, 29 points vs. Cleveland
- Card values (EX to Mint): $1.50 to $10
- VJ Edgecombe - Philadelphia 76ers
- Position: Shooting Guard
- Season stats: 15.2 points per game, started all 22 games
- Card values (EX to Mint): $1.50 to $10
- Topps Holiday #H163 Edgecombe also highly valued
- Cooper Flagg - Dallas Mavericks (2025-26 Topps #201 RC)
- Position: Small Forward
- Drafted: 1st overall (Duke)
- Season stats: 18.4 points, 6.3 rebounds, 3.5 assists per game
- First career 40-point game: 42 points vs. Utah Jazz on December 12
- Card values (EX to Mint): $2 to $12
- Holiday variations valued similarly
Collector Notes
- The 2025-26 Topps Basketball series marks Topps' return to licensed NBA cards after a 16-year break
- Base rookie cards are the main attraction for collectors, with high interest in both flagship and Chrome editions
- Card values are indicative of the current secondary market as of release
- Holiday variations are available for numerous rookies and are valued comparably to their standard RCs
- Specific design elements and print runs were not detailed in the article
- Parallels and inserts like Comic Court, Sonic Boom, All Kings, and 8-Bit Ballers are part of the flagship collection but not included in the base rookie card value list
- No specific odds, short prints, or super short prints were mentioned
Source: https://www.sportscardportal.com
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