LeBron Market Update, BGS Grading Plays; Huge Sports Card Flipping Wins; Strategy For The National

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It's Gary Vee and this is the Sports Card Strategy Show. Because you know this, there is no office, no off season when you get into this game. The reason why you pay someone like Paul Hickey to get your sports card strategy together is because when you're starting out, you need perspective, you need wisdom, you need insights. And so he's been around the track enough times where he can actually coach you up and guide you. Doesn't mean he's going to take you to the promised land tomorrow. But you now have a coach by your side that can advise and kind of even create these pathways where you can get the education yourself. And that's a lot better than thugging it out on your own. The kids better buy my rookie card now. Welcome in everybody. I'm your host, Paul Hickey. It's time to sit back, listen, learn and earn with me on the Sports Card Strategy show. Welcome in Nooffseason.com family. We're so happy to have you with us to help you make money flipping sports cards using Data Driven Sports Card investing. It's National Week and I will be at the national from Wednesday afternoon through Sunday in Chicago Rosemont, Illinois to be exact. And I'm excited about that. But that also means it's kind of football card selling season because Today is Monday, July 27th and from now basically training camp starts and from now all the way through the end of August, it's that NFL hype rise to the season that we always talk about where if you've been buying football cards like we've been telling you to starting back in December, you know, maybe some deals in January, February, but definitely March, April, May, June. You're probably in pretty good shape in terms of cards that are likely up or likely to rise over the next month. If you've been using our guideline strategies, plays and tools@nooffseason.com so we're going to talk about when to sell your football cards and a plan to either go to the national or not go to the National. Either way, a plan to determine how to utilize selling opportunities either at card shows or online to maximize your football card returns over the next month. We'll also talk about some events happening at the national, some ebay data, and my strategy for going to the National. And it's again, it's not so much applicable only to people going to card shows, but it's also applicable to basically what to do with your sports cards in this selling season. Over the next month, some more BGS wins, not only from myself and Lefty that I want to report, but also from our Nooffseason.com members, some huge BGS wins and my Fernando Mendoza BGS grades came back. So I'm going to talk through my selling strategy for the for the F Men, not the X Men, but the F Men card. Those of you who know know what I'm talking about. It's the NFL draft night tops. Now the number on the card is actually letters is F men for F Mendoza. So that card BGS grades are back. Obviously PSA grades are not back yet. But we'll talk about my BGS selling strategy. And then of course the big news. The big news. We buried the lead LeBron to the Sixers. What does this mean for LeBron's card value? What plays remain for LeBron James? Is it a buying opportunity? Is it a selling opportunity? Is he a long term hold? Is he a short term flip? We'll get into that and I'm going to use historical data to kind of paint the picture for what we might want to do with a new updated LeBron James strategy now that he signed a two year, $8 million deal with the Philadelphia 76ers, one of the strongest starting lineups, if not the strongest starting lineup in the NBA on paper. But Joel Embiid can't ever frickin stay healthy. So we know that he's not going to play a full slate of NBA games. And LeBron is 41 years old, so how good is he really going to be? I think the best player on that team is Jalen Brown. Now, not that I would do anything with Jalen Brown cards. I just think Jalen Brown is likely the best player on that team. And I think a lot of people will talk about what does this mean for Vijay Edcombe's Val Edge Combs value? What does this mean for Tyrese Maxey's value? Those kinds of things. So we'll get into a little bit of that later on in the show. But here's a critical question I have for all of you. All right, Are you sick and tired of getting slaughtered, ripping wax and buying into breaks? Do you want to actually profit flipping sports cards? Join no offseason.com now for less than a dollar a day. It's less than a dollar a day, people, and you make between 30 and 130% ROI consistently on flipping singles. 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Also, that 2% marketplace fee is a 0% marketplace fee for no offseason.com premium members. All right, more huge BGS wins. So for those of you that don't know, we have Regrade rankings@noallseason.com and they're brand new. They're fed in through new data from Hobby Flipper and Regrade rankings right here. So when you go to no offseason.com the regrade crack and submit sports card rankings are boom right there. You got PSA 9 to BGS 95 potential wins and losses. You got BGS 95 to PSA 10 potential wins and losses. And I will, I will tell you that a play from these rankings over the last year has been Barry Sanders score 1989 PSA 9 cracking it out, submitting it to BGS in hopes of a BGS9.5 big time profit on that with low downside. Check out the no offseason.com regrade rankings for all the details. But a lot of times people will say, well, what's your success rate on that? Not only are we tracking that at Hobby Flipper, but we're tracking that anecdotally through our premium members that grade with us. We have a grading service for premium members of no offseason.com well, we are 2 for 2. That is batting 1000 on submitting the Barry Sanders score. PSA 9 cracking it, sending submitting it raw to BGS and getting a 9. 5. That's huge profits for our premium members. And then we've talked about Lefty and I have talked about the Kobe Bryant PSA 9 to BGS 9. Five play. That has been a huge one-of-one and that was something that I gave away on this show for free back in September of 2025. So for those of you who are annoyed with me for promoting no offseason.com and Hobby Flipper all the time, too bad, so sad. Because I've given away so many free tips on this show and there's obviously much more@nooffseason.com and Hobby Flipper and that is how I make my living. So I do need you all to subscribe to those tools to support me so that we can keep this going. Right? But it's alt art of the same family. It's alt art of the same strategy. And so of course on this show I'll give away some free advice, but everything very, very, very valuable is behind the paid wall@nooffseason.com and Hobby Flipper. Well, case in point, free advice. I just gave you some with the Barry Sanders play, but I've been talking about this Kobe Bryant PSA 9 to BGS 95 play since September. I did the math. I, I started making the play based on the math after I announced it on the show. So I did not start the play before I, before I mention it on the show. I gave you all the same opportunity that I had. And because there's 20 plus thousand of PSA 9, so this is something that we can all do. We talk about repeatable strategies on the sports card strategy show. We don't go off into like stupid stuff like oh this one of one or oh, this out of five or oh, this person pulled this or this person, you know, this breaker did that. Screw all that. We, we are focused on repeatable plays. We want to look at things that anybody can access from anywhere in the world, regardless of their situation. Make a play so The Kobe Bryant PSA 9 to BGS 95 has been one of the biggest successes in the history of the Sports Card Strategy show and of no offseason.com because several several layers to this all right, first of all, the PSA9 to BGS9.5 upside is big. And it was big. And it still is big back in September and it still is growing. The downside is low, meaning if you don't get the BGS 95 to get the BGS 9 instead there was low downside. Well, if you would have made the play back in September or even as late as like December or January, not only is the downside low, but there's upside in the BGS9 from where you bought it at. So for people like Lefty and I and others who have been doing this play for several months now since I announced it, this episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. You think you know a browser, but Gemini and Chrome? That's new. It can help you with practically anything on the web, like restoring a vintage motorcycle from a 50 page restoration block or or finally break down that long article you've had open for weeks. Gemini and Chrome is here for it, ready to make anything online make sense. There's no place like Chrome. Check responses, Setup required Compatibility and availability Various 18 this message is brought to you by Apple Card. Shave ice by the beach, a trip to the state fair, and a throwback flick at the local drive in. They're more than just items to check off the summer Beckett list. There are also opportunities to earn 2% daily cash back when you use your Apple Card with Apple Pay. Apply for Apple Card now and use in minutes with Apple Pay. Subject to credit approval. Apple Card is issued by Goldman Sachs Bank USA Salt Lake City Branch terms and more@applecard.com we are actually not only making money if we get a BGS 95, but we're making money if we get a BGS 9. That's how good of a play this has been. Now the real reason why this has been a good Blue Ice because the success rate has been phenomenal. I personally on my own cards have a 50 success rate. Lefty on his cards has a better than a 50 success rate. And premium members of no offseason.com have a better than a 50% success rate, meaning more than half of the PSA9s that we've cracked and submitted to BGS have gotten a BGS9.5. Not only that, but the value of the BGS9 have gone up. So even if you're getting BGS9s back, chances are you bought them for significantly less and then you submitted them to us. Or you're making this play on your own and you're still making money even if you're not getting BGS9.5s. Now we recently in a in a recent grading submission, not only were we 2 for 2 on the Barry Sanders, but we were 2 for 3 on the Kobe Bryant and we were 2 for 6, which is still really, really good on The Michael Jordan 1991 baseball Upper Deck SP1, which is a play that I've been making as well. So more huge BGS wins again. Check out the Regrade crack and submit Sports card rankings@nooffseason.com there are tons of data tools. Ebay doesn't show you what cards to search for. Nooffseason.com not only gives you pricing data, but also shows you which cards to search for. Nooffseason.com is getting better. We've created a new data tool that Premium members of Nooffseason.com get for free. It's called Hobby Flipper. The purpose of Hobby Flipper is aligned with the purpose of NoOffSeason.com to help you find the right card to for the right player at the right time and to help you make money flipping sports cards. As such, Hobby Flipper does not compete with Market Movers or Card Ladder in terms of the number of cards it tracks, since around 5,000 cards at any given time are actually investable or cards that you can use for repeatable plays that I was talking about a minute ago. We focus on about 5,000 to 10,000 total cards and not the 7 or 8 million that card ladder and Market Mover are tracking. So we help you immediately see the plays to make in the plays to fade. Based on the data and math, we have raw to grade upside and downside on our card Details pages, which is something Market Movers and Card Ladder don't have. We use our formula to make our rankings@nooffseason.com and we feed that data in through Hobby Flipper shout out to gemrate.com because we also are hitting the gem rate data to show you the gem rates for all the cards that are in Hobby Flipper and that helps you also make a determination on the card details pages at Hobby Flipper as to whether or not there is any upside to maybe raw to grade. Maybe it's Crack and submit, Regrade, upside and downside. Hobby Flipper also gives you the best time to auction off your cards. So we're tracking ebay data on the best time to auction off your cards, top ebay sellers, which basically shows you rankings of sellers to buy the best cards from for the best prices, better inventory and flip management, which I'm going to show you here in a second. We have Flipper rankings. That is something that doesn't exist anywhere else in the world. Flipper ranking. So we've gamified the sports card flipping, which is something. Honestly, I'm surprised that somebody didn't snag this before I did because I've been, I'm almost five years of doing this podcast. Less than 45 days from now we're gonna have our five month anniversary of this show, the Sports Card Strategy show. And when I launched this Show, I launched Nooffseason.com in conjunction with the show. And the premise of this from the very, very beginning was how to make money flipping sports cards. And not just for the money, but for the, for the gamification of it, for the, for the pride, for the bragging rights, for the, for the fantasy sports aspect of it, but in real dollars like stocks, right? We all know that now, but five years ago I came out with this, this concept of look, we need to compete against one another, right? We need to help each other out, but we need to compete against one another. So now we finally have the Flipper rankings at Hobby Flipper. So what's really, really cool with the Flipper rankings is you can see out of, out of all the Hobby Flipper users, which include the nooffseason.com premium members, who's made the most net profit? Who's made the most profit margin? We can look at it all time. We can look at it in the last 30 days. We can look at it in the last 60, 90, 180. And let's just give a shout out to some of our premium members. These are no offseason.com premium members and Hobby Flipper premium members. Rose Bros. Is number one in the last 30 days from a total net profit standpoint. Zach E. Brian Kite, Michael Stock, Gavin Shinn, Lefty McKees, number six. So those are the top hobby flippers from a net profit standpoint in the last 30 days. Matt Winzeller, Austin Fedderson, Sean Red, five cards. D. Fry, 35 top hobby flippers in the last year. Tim S. Myself, Rose Bros. John Kite, John Anthony, Zack et Sci Brady, Matt Winzeller, Sean Red five cards, Evan Klein. Now if we go to profit margin Hollow Forge, Sergeant Bucks Bunker, Jim McKeaton, Nick Epler, AB Sports Cards Austin Federson, Sean Phillips, Recess Lucky Monkey Eric Minieri. So that's really cool. But also the top flips. I think the top flips Zebra educational, right? On last week's show we talked about, okay, which players are the top like are in the top 25 flips in the last 30 days most often, right? This gives you where like sports card investor does like their top five cards. All right, Uptown, that kind of thing. We're taking a little bit of a different approach with that. Why not look at what are the top cards that are flipping the best. What are the what are the top most. What are the best cards and the best players to make a profit on. That's what we're all about. At the sports card strategy show in nooffseason.com the number one flip is still the Bo Nicks John Elway, Donruss Downtown which from Rose Bros. Had to have been a raw to grade one-of-one in the last 30 days. But LeBron number two, that's a PSA 10 flip from Zach E. Shohei Otani is number three, four, five, eight, 12. So we've got five Shohei Otani cards in the top 25. We've got 1, 2, 2. LeBron Wemby was the leader last week. 1, 2, 3, 3 Wemby. We got three Ken Griffey Jr. We've got a Shador Sanders. We've got a Drake May. We've got Jackson Dart Silver Prizm Caleb Williams Sean Red 5 cards made 233.79 on a Caleb Williams Panini Instant NFL Rated Rookie retro PSA 10 flip. So my guess is that that was a raw to grade. But the flipper rankings are flipping cool. All right, the Flipper rankings are flipping cool. Get in on the Flipper rankings. Check out our top flips. You can either join no offseason.com and get free access to Hobby Flipper or you can join Hobby Flipper. So just for clarity, best new tool in the hobby. No offseason.com members get the following sports card school premium pod episodes, unlimited advice discord using member points of course, grading services, card analyzer and predictor tool. My athletes feature sports card rankings, top ebay, auctions and all Hobby Flipper benefits. And that's for less than a dollar a day, $2.99 a year or 29.99amonth. Hobby Flipper members get Hobby Flipper for 99.99 a year or 9.99amonth. So two different options. Nooffseason.com gives you so much more. And Hobby Flipper is an amazing tool, but doesn't replace no offseason.com in any way. All right, so we love data and ebay supplies us with data. Shout out to Joey, Shout out to Davina and her team. Davina, I'm gonna see you at the National. Pumped about that. Looking forward to linking up with all of my peeps at ebay. So many good people that work at ebay. Shout out Janie Parisini, who was on the sports card strategy show la like about eight months ago. We'd love to have her back on sometime. She's been a loyal premium, no offseason.com member, like honestly, since like 2022, which is like Jeannie, thank you for that for real, because I think our premium membership was probably not even close to anywhere that it's to going good as it is now. And you've stuck with us, Mike Net, who's been on the show before. And then I'm going to meet some other great people from ebay in addition to the folks I've already mentioned. But Joey sends us data and we've got some data from the World Cup. We knew this would be cool. In June 2026, searches for several teams jerseys increased in eBay.com's collectibles category compared to the month prior May 2026. And the reason we bring this up and we're going to get to the card data here in a second. But the jersey data I think is really cool also because it really shows the amount of ebay searches that happen during a selling marker. And we talk about selling markers being a lot of different things. I think hype rise leading into a season, a hype rise say during a tournament when it's on tv, in this case the World Cup. But then there are selling markers that are like performance spikes and when performance spikes happen, they obviously send the prices much higher than during. Just hyperizes, right? When you can pair a hyperize with a performance spike with a raw degrade one-of-one or something like that, that's when you can really make the most money. But this data from ebay, while it is Jersey data, it indicates. I still one-of-one thank Joey for it because it still indicates the amount of interest that the World cup had and the amount of ebay searches search increases that it did drive. And in last week's episode. Go back and listen to last week's episode. Lefty and I broke down Kind of the card impact from the World cup and where we felt like our advice really was spot on and maybe where it lacked a little bit. But one-of-one June 2026 compared to May 2026. Columbia soccer jersey was up more than 580%. USA soccer jersey was up more than 420%. Ecuador jersey up more than 370%. England soccer jersey up more than 360%. Mexico jersey up more than 340%. France jersey up more than 290%. Searches for player specific items in June as compared to May. Lamina Mall jersey up more than 290%. Raul Jimenez more than 250%. And that's just his name. So there could be card results in that. Christian Pulisic up more than 240%. Messy autograph card, some card data there, up more than 230%. And Ronaldo sticker, interesting one, up more than 230%. As we know, stickers are a big part of soccer collectibles, international football collectibles. So. All right. If you need help selling your cards at the right time, use Hobby flipper and no offseason.com sell alert feature for premium members only. The Sell Alert feature at Hobby flipper, which no offseason.com premium members get access to, kind of looks like this when you, you manage your portfolio. And I'm gonna, I'm gonna use my portfolio in a, in a future segment coming up here. When you add a holding to your portfolio, whether or not it's already in our database or not, it starts to track its data. If it's in our database, then you already get the current market value, which shows you the potential profit and ROI that you're at right now. If that number is more than 20% ROI, you get a Sell Alert feature. Any, you get a. Sorry, you get a Sell Alert email. A Sell Alert email with the actual information of what your card just sold for and whether or not we think it's a good time to sell that card. So that's automated email from your portfolio. The Hobby Flipper feature that really helps you track when is the best time to sell your cards. And you get those email alerts. If the card is not in our database, we start tracking the data for you for that card. And the next time it sells, you get that data shown in your portfolio. And then of course, when it sells for over 20% of what you're into it for, you get a Sell Alert email. So it's a critical, critical tool. And then of course, when you Sell the card, it becomes a flip. And then that is how you're entered into the Flipper rankings that I talked about earlier. All right, so speaking of my portfolio, I want to use my portfolio at Hobby Flipper to talk about my strategy for the national because I think it's important to talk about my plan for the national. A lot of you are going to the National, a lot of you aren't going to the national, but either way, you can use this strategy. So should I sell my football cards yet or should I wait till the end of August? My process is I'm going to look at my portfolio in Hobby Flipper because I have it all updated. All right, so before I leave for the national or before I list any of these cards on ebay, I'm looking at my portfolio and what I can do is I can filter by categories, football, and you can see, boom. All of a sudden you see a lot of green here. Because I've done, I've done a good job of purchasing football cards, the right cards for the right players at the right time this off season. And you can see that I've got a lot of Jaden Daniels, I've got a lot of Caleb Williams, Justin Herbert, Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow, I've got some Jalen Hurts. And so which cards should I even bring to the National? Well, I'm gonna look at only the cards that I'm up 20% or more on to bring. So a good example is like this. Patrick Mahomes, Donruss base PSA 9. The Rated Rookie PSA 9. I'm up 63.18 on that. So my potential profit is if I were to sell it on ebay. Right now, my potential profit is 147.51. That could be a good card to bring to the National. Now that was a SGC 85 that I cracked and it got a PSA 9. So that's part of the reason why I'm up so much. But a good, another good example is this episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 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Apple Card is issued by Goldman Sachs Bank USA Salt Lake City Branch terms and more at applecard.com this Joe Burrow Optic Hollow PSA 102020 these were cards I just bought as PSA 10s. Well, I'm up 31.17 on one of them and I'm up 19.23 on the other. So I could probably bring these and net some profit in cash at the national as well. Now Jaden Daniels Prizm Silver PSA 10 that I bought as a PSA 10, I'm up 17.1% on that card and I bought two of them. I'm up 5.16 on the other now because I'm only up that percentage amount. I'm probably going to leave those cards at home just because now I might bring them with me because in the next week while I'm at the national, these numbers could change. And that's another good point. I'm going to be monitoring my Hobby Flipper portfolio while I'm at the National. I'm going to be walking around the Fleer of the national with Hobby Flipper on my phone monitoring the prices because if one of them sells for a significant amount more then and I'm likely to get a sell alert for that, or maybe I get a sell alert for that while I'm at the show. Then all of a sudden that becomes a card that I can move for a cash profit at the show. And for those of you not tracking, I mean typically buyers are only paying 85% of comps at the show one-of-one so you need to be up at least 20, 20% or more. That's why. Because there's not going to be any profit if you're up 5% but you're selling for 85% of comps. That's just obviously the math doesn't work out that way. So I think for any of these cards that I'm that I'm close to 20 on, I'll bring just in case something happens. But any cards that I'm any cards that I'm above 20 on I'm going to bring like this Jalen hurts optic hollow 2020 PSA 10 I'm up 23.48 on that and I bought a second one and I'm up 17.31% on that. I'll bring those, you know, because there could be some cash profit there. Hobby flipper, like nothing else before in the past is going to help me really make the best decisions at a card show and online on ebay. So that's my process. Look at my hobby flipper portfolio, bring the cards I'm up 20 or more on. Leave everything else at home, make decisions at the event while referencing my hobby flipping flipper portfolio. All right. A couple other things that I'm going to be checking out at the national. You know, I've got a media pass so I'm going to be meeting up with a lot of I'm going to cover the event and there's going to be a week from today. There'll be a national recap episode for for those of you not attending. You're going to get a nice flavor of what it's like to Whatnot because I'm going to do a nice recap episode a week from today. There's going to be some interviews, some folks I'm going to meet up with. We'll do some interviews to give you some more great information. We'll talk to people at ebay, we'll talk to people at some other up and coming companies in the hobby that we think are interesting for you guys to check out. And then of course there'll be some wheeling and dealing that I'm going to be doing and I'm going to report back on that. Okay. Based on, based on the strategy I just outlined for you. The ebay arena. So last year we talked about ebay had a really cool scavenger hunt. This year they have the ebay arena. So the collecting experience enthusiasts know and trust comes to life at the national at the ebay arena where convention goers can explore unmatched inventory and immersive experiences throughout the space collectors can see Upper Deck auction one of a kind Michael Jordan collectibles on display Goldin where you can check out high value items. 2018 Bowman Chrome Shohei Ohtani Red Refractor Auto BGS 952026 Prizm Black Lamina Mall 1 of 1 Collectors can also take on the price guide challenge. Attendees are invited to the collector's lounge to test their knowledge using ebay's price guide tool. The collector card Cade experience offers self guided digital game featuring hobby themed trivia and challenges. Highest scores one-of-one big. And then of course trade nights. So ebay has trade nights and I am going to be at the trade nights. That is probably where I will look to make some deals on some of the cards that I mentioned. Trade nights typically where you can, you know, not only make trades but cash deals and you can make bulk cash deals as the buyer or the seller. Typically those are a little bit better than what you can get on the trade Fleer Although if you do your due diligence on the trade Fleer and you price things out, put things in bulk and you know, get, get the right card for the right player at the right time under comps and you can obviously use nooffseason.com and Hobby Flipper for that. You can make good deals on the show Fleer But the trade nights are cool. Ebay has trade nights with Trading Grounds, an interactive collector hub featuring large scale wall challenge and the signature Be a breaker experience. I'm going to obviously fade the be a breaker experience because if you, if you know anything about me, you know that I hate breaking. So I'm gonna fade to be a breaker. But I'll. I'm looking forward to checking out everything else. So let me take a quick break so I can tell you what no offseason.com members are saying. Juan D. Shout out to Juan D. What's up, my man? He says amazing content@noallseason.com and an amazing new site, Hobby Flipper. Thank you. My sons and I will be at the national and we will look for you on the Fleer If you have any hats to purchase, I'd love to wear it on the Fleer and at the trade nights. We're usually on location from 9am to 10pm unfortunately, the hats that I have are one of ones I don't sell merch, but I may. I'll look and see if I have any, any extra T shirts for you and the boys. All right. Okay. Let's talk about my Fernando Mendoza BGS grades. So the F Men cards I thought about, do I sell these now on ebay or do I take these to the national? I got these. Okay. These graded very well and these grades make me feel really good about my PSA grades coming back for these cards. And for the Ty Simpson, for those of you who are new to the sports card strategy, show one play that we've made in the past. We don't recommend making this play right now because of the PSA backlog and because the value submissions are paused. So repeat, repeat, repeat. Do not make these plays now. But we have made these plays in the past because we've had a situation where we've been able to submit value submissions. So so less than $25 a card, getting them back at a reasonable time, those kinds of things. These grade really well and then being maybe not first to the market but in the first wave to the market of the graded cards for some of the top top rookies. So like Fernando Mendoza's NFL draft night card, the F Men is what I'm talking about. I got eight BGs nine 5s and two BGs pristine 10 gold labels. I decided to list those on ebay in auctions because over the then they're in 10 day auctions right now. If I take them to the national there are no comps yet. So my fear there is that I'm going to get lowballed. Although. Shout out to Cards HQ Cards HQ buys these kind of cards and they actually pay pretty decently for them even early on in the Cards life cycle. So shout out to Cards HQ for that and that that's not a paid plug. That's like I've actually done business with Cards HQ and they've done a really good job there actually. I look forward to seeing my man Carter from Cards HQ with the National. Carter, what's up if you're listening. So and and by the way, Texas Roadshow Shop Cody and Chase, I'm coming for you guys. Haven't seen you in a while so look forward to seeing you guys as well. Okay. But I think it's smarter to list these on ebay because you never know how pumped some people are going to be to try to get the first Fernando Mendoza graded rookie cards, especially in a BGS pristine 10 gold label which sells very very close to a PSA 10 historically. So I'm looking forward to seeing how these auctions do. Is it a risk to auction them off on ebay? Sure, but I think it's a huge reward and I have my minimum bid pretty high so I don't think I can really lose here. Remember that no offseason.com is the only place on the planet with sports card rankings now updated every day because we're feeding in the data from Hobby Flipper sorted by the ROI percentage you're likely to make in the future and now showing the gem rate. Join NoOffSeason.com now before no more spots are available. Again, shout out and thanks to Ryan.com stay alert and keep making plays. Use our new and improved card analyzer and predictor tool. We've also launched consignment services. If you're sick of dealing with the PSA Vault and Can and Fanatics collect vault issues. You can use us for that. No, offseason.com we vault them for you, we can sign them for you, we grade them for you. All that good stuff. All right, listen up. So LeBron signed a two year, eight million dollar deal with the Philadelphia 76ers. We knew that coming into the show because that's been everywhere. So not trying to break any news, but what we do here on the sports card strategy show is analysis. So the analysis is like what, what do we do with LeBron now? Right. Well, I'm in a position where I liquidated all of my LeBron cards in the during the playoffs. Like I made a ton of money on LeBron in the playoffs. And I mean you can see my public portfolio page@ Hobby Flipper.com My flips, my LeBron flips, man. I'll just tell you right now, I can just go to my flips and search for LeBron and I'll tell you. I made $567 on his Chrome 2003 Topps Chrome. I made 412 on his. That was the Topps Chrome BGS 95. I made 412 on his PSA Topps Chrome made another 290 and 432 each on two PSA 7s. I made 27 on an SGC 9 and on the white suit tops paper 2003, $184. So made quite a bit in a short period of time on LeBron. Maybe would have made a little more. I mean, I think some of those cards might be selling for a little bit more now than what I sold them for back during the playoffs. Now with the news that they, you know, him being in the news, having signed with Philadelphia. But what do we do with LeBron? All right, I mean, first thing I think makes the most sense is to go over to our sports card rankings@noallseason.com and take a look at the rankings starting with the raw to grade rankings. And what I would do is the best thing about our rankings, you can just search for a player. It's gonna immediately show you the top 100, but you can just search for a player. And after I put LeBron's name in here, it's going to show me any LeBron James card from a raw degrade standpoint that I can make money on. Number one card is FLIR Ultra Base 2003 Zebra Low Gem rate but Zebra low average raw price. So it's. You can take many swings at that. The LeBron Bowman rookies and stars base a Little bit more expensive Raw, but a much higher upside. Another cheaper option, Bazooka Base 2003. But the card with the best gem rate is the Upper Deck MVP base. It's got a 39, almost a 39 gem rate with an 88 ROI at PSA. So there's raw to grade LeBron options. There's plenty more you can look at it no offseason.com what I like for LeBron rookies though, would be more of the regrade or the graded option. But from a regrade standpoint, again, if you're looking at our rankings, you're going to want to look at something with upside of close to $200, but with downside of like less than $200. So the card that sticks out to me is his Prizm silver from 2020. Buying that in a PSA9 is $241.50. It sells for 581. In a BGS9.5, the downside is only $150. So you can make multiples of that. Play another one. There's a there's a bet there's a much better1@nooffseason.com that Premium members only can go find. And if you're not a Premium member, consider this your call to action to go become a premium member. And then on the graded side of things, you're going to go to our graded sports card rankings. Again, going to give you our top 100. But when you type LeBron James in there, it's going to give you here's here's the deal. Not many graded options. Reason being, his cards are up by quite a bit right now. That's why I think the RE grade is probably the best. There's only two cards that have any upside in the last 90 days if you were to buy them graded. Now that's not to say that is. See, that kind of brings up the other thing that I wanted to talk about with LeBron, because when you look at things from a graded standpoint, you're relying on for some reason his his prices continuing to go up if you buy him graded. Whereas if you're making the the Regrade or the Raw to grade, you don't have to rely on his cards actually going up because what you're doing is you're trying to get the grade. You know, you're trying to one-of-one on the grade. So this episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. You think you know a browser, but Gemini and Chrome, that's new. It can help you with practically anything on the web like restoring a vintage motorcycle from a 50 page restoration block. Or finally break down that long article you've had open for weeks. Gemini and Chrome is here for it, ready to make anything online make sense. There's no place like Chrome. 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Not because I spoke about it, but just since I spoke about it. So now we're in a situation where with, with LeBron, if you're buying already graded now, you're, you're taking the risk saying his market's going to continue to go up. I'm not so sure it will. Looking at historical data is important and I think the best player to compare him to is Tom Brady, because I think there's obvious reasons. But I think from a hobby perspective you're looking at a player who has 20 plus years of cards who is, is arguably the goat in their sport. Probably 90, 90% or more of people would agree with that. You're looking at players who have played for multiple teams. And then what I want to do is I want like now that LeBron is with the Sixers and it, it's kind of like me like me comparing Brady going to the Buccaneers and then coming back to the Buccaneers for another year when nobody thought he would. So because remember he retired once and then he, he announced his retirement and then 40 days later he came back to the Buccaneers. And that's like when you have the, the goat of football doing that and then you have the goat of basketball with LeBron kind of doing like the decision part two that took a little minute and then, and then he announced it when nothing else was in the news cycle after the World cup to kind of be in the news cycle all by himself to go to Philly. It just reminds me of Brady doing a similar thing to come back to Tampa. But what Brady has done that LeBron hasn't done yet is Brady has retired for good. So the reason I'm where I'm going with all this is like, LeBron will retire for good. So the question is, do we buy LeBron now or do we wait until he retires to buy back in? Because what we've seen, obviously with Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, some of the others, is we've seen their cards continuously go up after they've been retired for several years and in Kobe's case, unfortunately, passes away. But several years after he passed away, like, after the news of him having passed, his cards are still gone up. Like, his cards are going up in 2026. He passed away in 2020. So his passing doesn't have anything to do with his cards going up. It's just his market. So the. So bringing it back to LeBron. LeBron is going to be in a situation one day where after he retires, something's going to happen with his pricing. But then. And something's happening with his pricing right now, by the way, which is why I'm kind of. I'm kind of neutrally paused on LeBron. I'm not, I'm not buying into LeBron right now. In fact, I would say, if anything, looking at the data in Hobby Flipper, which I'm showing you on my screen right now, there's a lot of reason to sell LeBron right now. Like, I'm scrolling through a page on Hobby Flipper where you're seeing. And like, I'll just go to 100. I mean, there are, there are almost 100 LeBron cards that are up significantly over the last 14 days. Courtesy of hobby flipper.com so now. So I think it's a good time to sell LeBron or hold, depending on the card you have. But it, but it really depends on the card you have. And back to where I was going with all this, let's use Brady as an example of what will likely happen to LeBron's market once LeBron retires. So I'm just going to use one card as an example, which is never, like, the best thing to do. But just for the sake of discussion. And again, like, there's more. More behind the paid wall. But for the sake of discussion on the sports card strategy show, I think this makes sense. Brady's PSA 10 Bowman Chrome Base 2000 is at an all time high. Its previous all time high was in February of 2021. February of 2021 was the last boom in the sports card market. And then you can see right here, there's a huge drop off in the six months the bubble burst in February 2021 in the sports card market. And then the market recorrected, but it Tribute quite a bit. Like Brady's PSA 10 sold for $29,657.57, which was this previous all time high before the. Actually this past week. Let's verify this real quick. I'm gonna open up the ebay listing. Yu-Gi-Oh so it sold this past Friday, like Brady. Like it's been at an all time high that it reached this last week. So point being, though, it Tribute significantly in the, in the, the next six months after the, the bubble burst in 2021. Now I get that out of the way, though, because what's really, what's really important here, because we're not, we're not saying anything about a bubble bursting with LeBron. But what we do know, we do know LeBron will retire at some point. And if he doesn't, like, if he doesn't one-of-one a championship with Philly, it could get ugly, right? Like, he could, he might not be that good in Philly. Like, we don't know. Or he might be a role player trying to one-of-one a championship. But to the masses who don't understand basketball, to the, to a lot of people in the hobby, it might just be, oh, well, LeBron's not that good anymore. He might only average 16 points a game is what I'm telling you. Like, his stats might not be that great over the next two years. And then he might retire. And then in that case, I would, I would venture to guess his market's going to take a little bit of a dip. So the better time to buy into LeBron might be over the next couple of years, or it might be the 12 to 24 months after he retires, which again is going to be like three years from now while I'm okay, waiting three years to buy into LeBron. Because if his cards do what Brady's cards did, then that's going to be how we make money on LeBron. And that's where we wanted to get to. So Tom Brady's actual final retirement was on February 1, 2023, stating that it was permanent after 23 seasons in the league. So where, where this Brady card was on February 21, 2023. February 1 is it actually did so before the retirement. It sold for $7,500. On January 3, after he announced his retirement, it went up to 12,300. But then it went all the way down. Like, this card was a $7,200 card. It got down to 6,100. It got down to $5,916.58. Now it's all the way back in the last week. This is my point. This is my point. Three years later, it sold for $33,000. Okay, so my point is, why would you buy into LeBron during the time. Well, for sure, don't buy into LeBron right now, okay? Because he's in the news cycle now. Brady kind of pooped the bed in his last season in Tampa. When he did that, his prices started to come down. They went back up when he announced retirement. Then they went down for the next two years. Then they went back up. So that, I believe, is a model for what will happen with LeBron. That is a model for what will happen with LeBron. So I think a good LeBron strategy is going to be to wait and see what he does in Philly. If he starts to poop the bed and his cards come down significantly, some of his top cards, then it's a good buy in strategy. If he. If his prices maintain, regardless of how he performs. If his prices maintain, then I think the best move is to wait until he retires, start buying into him about six. From about six months to 24 months after he's retired. That's when to buy in. Then there will be this LeBron go real market situation where he will likely go up over time, like Jordan, like Brady, like Kobe. And so that is how I forecast the LeBron market using historical data. So I think it's patience. It's not trying to buy in to be like, oh, he's gonna do this, this, that, and the other in Philly. And I think if you have like a common LeBron card, even if it's very high dollar card, if you are in the profit right now significantly based on, like putting it into your hobby Flipper portfolio, I would sell and then I would buy back in. Because I do think there will be a dip, a couple of dips over the next few years. And then after, like, again, about six months to a year after he retires for good, that's when I think is a great time to buy in. And then just sort of write it. Write it up like a mutual fund over time. All right, everybody, just a quick shout out to people who join in the live chat. Pick six cards Hit Man. Thanks so much for being a part of the no offseason.com fam. I want to see any of you who have been on the fence about joining no offseason.com need to do it now. All right, everybody, thanks. Have a great day. 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