{"id":12776,"date":"2021-04-27T12:48:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T12:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=12776"},"modified":"2021-04-27T12:48:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T12:48:28","slug":"selling-lebron-james-autographed-card-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=12776","title":{"rendered":"Selling LeBron James Autographed Card at Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rare collectible card with the autograph of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=12564\">American<\/a> basketball player LeBron James sold at auction for $ 5.2 million. This was reported by the press service of the auction house PWCC Marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; April 27, 2021 \u2013 Sport<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The card was issued in 2003 in the amount of 23 pieces. The condition of the sold copy is estimated as &#8220;the third-best of the existing ones&#8221;. The buyer preferred to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>$ 5.2 million &#8211; a repeat of the record value of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=11854\">sports<\/a> cards. In 1952, the collection card of baseball player Mickey Mantle was sold for the same amount.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>James is a four-time NBA champion, four times recognized as the best player in the regular season and the most valuable player in the final series of the playoffs. This season, the 36-year-old forward is averaging 25.8 points, making 8.1 rebounds and 8.0 assists. Another leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anthony_Davis\">Anthony Davis<\/a>, has not yet recovered from the Lakers after an injury. The current NBA champion is ranked third in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Record $5.2MM <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KingJames?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KingJames<\/a> card sets the record for the highest price for a basketball card. Ever. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y5O4vHKzDu\">pic.twitter.com\/y5O4vHKzDu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PWCC (@PWCCmarketplace) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PWCCmarketplace\/status\/1386712726777438212?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read also:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=8805\">Georgina Stanway Broadcasts a Message for Young Players<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Source: Ukrgate<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rare collectible card with the autograph of American basketball player LeBron James sold at auction for $ 5.2 million. This was reported by the press service of the auction house PWCC Marketplace. Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; April 27, 2021 \u2013 Sport \u00a0 The card was issued in 2003 in the amount of 23 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":12777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[6005,6007,130,6006,4589,2399],"class_list":["post-12776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sport","tag-auctions","tag-autographed-card","tag-basketball","tag-lebron-james","tag-sports-news","tag-ukraine-gate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12778,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12776\/revisions\/12778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}