Dan Hajducky
Multiple Authors
A 1997 Kobe Bryant Metal Universe Precious Metal Gems Green card has been purchased by different buying and selling platform Alt for $3.15 million, essentially the most ever paid for a solo Bryant card.
The hefty price ticket could be attributed to the lore of inexperienced PMGs. Though the serial quantity on the Bryant card’s again reads “009/100,” numbers 11-100 of every participant’s PMGs had been crimson, whereas 1-10 had been inexperienced. Of these 10 Bryant inexperienced PMGs from the primary set, solely three have been graded by Professional Sports Authenticator, sometimes essentially the most fascinating grading firm. This Bryant card is a PSA 5, with just one graded greater by PSA.
“I’d argue this is the best Kobe Bryant card out there,” Alt founder and CEO Leore Avidar stated. “They only made 10 of them, it shines, and it’s the first year of basketball PMGs — which there’s a collector base for. I’ve been trying to get one. It’s always been my thing.”
While Bryant’s signature and game-worn NBA emblem patch are featured on the most expensive sports card of all time, essentially the most beforehand paid for a solo Bryant card was a $2.4 million in a September 2025 non-public sale. Another 1997 Metal Universe inexperienced Bryant PMG offered privately for $2 million in February 2022; that one bears an 8.5 grade from Beckett Grading Services.
In mid-2021, Alt acquired a 51% stake within the one-of-one, on-card autographed Stephen Curry Logoman rookie card from 2009’s Playoff National Treasures, which was reportedly valued at $5.9 million. Avidar advised ESPN that, in February 2022, Alt purchased the remaining 49%; all-in, he stated it paid $6.684 million. The most ever paid for a basketball card at the moment was $5.2 million for a uncommon LeBron James rookie card; essentially the most identified paid for a Curry card in any other case is $1.08 million in August 2022.
Alt additionally acquired a LeBron James rookie patch autograph card for $1.8 million in July 2020 — then a since-broken record for a James card — a Giannis Antetokounmpo 1-of-1 rookie Logoman for $1.812 million in September 2020, and a Kevin Durant RPA for $780,000 in March 2021. According to Card Ladder, the Antetokounmpo and Durant purchases are nonetheless participant data.
Avidar stated Alt’s purpose is to amass Hall of Fame collections, with one caveat.
“We’ve purposely left out Michael Jordan,” he stated. “It’s really the next generation after Jordan that we’re focused on.”
