Former poker pro Jared Bleznick has offered a $1 million bounty for anyone who manages to pull a specific LeBron James basketball card in a 10-card collectors set.
In his opinion as a sports card expert, Bleznick reckons that this particular card will soon become the most valuable in the world.
The card is known as the LeBron James triple logoman, featuring the NBA star in full kit for all three of the teams he’s played for in his career: Cleveland Cavaliers, Miami Heat, and his current outfit the Los Angeles Lakers.
Jared Bleznick Offers $1 Million for Pulling LeBron James Basketball Card
And the catch? There’s only one in the world!
All we know is that one lucky collector will find this gem in a 2020-21 in a Panini Flawless basketball collector set.
Coming in at an eye-watering $11,000 each, we wonder how long it will take before enough sets are sold to release the LeBron James card.
On the other hand, it is exactly these types of box sets that will contain the once in a generation cards that end up being worth a fortune. Maybe they will be flying off the shelves.
From Poker to Sports Cards
The American sports card business is massive, on a scale not seen anywhere else in the world.
Jared Bleznick was a successful poker with more than $2 million in live tournament winnings but gave it all up for this.
Bleznick all but ended his career in poker to concentrate on his first love of collecting sports cards. He set up Legacy Sports Cards in Las Vegas with fellow poker pro Tom Marchese and also hosts a live show unboxing cards.
Last year the American won the $10,000 US Poker Open PLO event but showed a complete lack of interest or sense of achievement in his post-victory interview.
“All of this, it just doesn’t do anything for me. Sports cards. That’s my life. Poker was something that I loved growing up in my twenties. Sports cards. It’s just the greatest business in the world. I’ve played enough poker in my life.”
If winning $189,000 doesn’t move him then he must be doing something right in his new ventures.
Something he did point out was that the difference between poker and collecting sports cards is that poker requires a loser, whereas in sports cards everybody can win together.
He added that to turn his hobby and passion into a business is the greatest feeling ever.
And He Wants More
It’s also not just the LeBron James triple logoman card that Jared Bleznick is focussed on. He has put six-figure bounties out on four more
- Steph Curry/Kevin Durant/Giannis Antetokounmpo triple logoman ($150,000)
- Steph Curry/Draymond Green/Klay Thompson triple logoman ($250,000)
- Anthony Edwards logoman autograph ($300,000)
- LaMelo Ball logoman autograph ($300,000)
The numbers listed above are likely to be a mere fraction of what these cards could be worth in the future.
The problem for collectors holding any of these cards is that what Jared Bleznick is offering might be too much to turn down considering how long it might take for them to increase in value.
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