Adou Thiero’s NBA Debut Patch Turned Up in a Target Blaster, and the Collector Told Us First

Adou Thiero NBA Debut Patch Autograph, DPA-AT, serial 1/1, pulled from a Target blaster box in Norfolk, Virginia
The Adou Thiero NBA Debut Patch Autograph, DPA-AT, 1/1. Photo: @burnsie_cat

The Adou Thiero NBA Debut Patch Autograph (DPA-AT, one of one) has been found. It came out of a Target blaster box in Norfolk, Virginia, on October 10, and the collector who pulled it, burnsie_cat, reported it through the form on the NBA Debut Patch tracker with a photo of the card. That makes it the 58th of the 99 cards in 2025-26 Topps Chrome Update Basketball to surface publicly, and the first one reported to this site by the person who pulled it.

The card

Thiero was the 36th pick of the 2025 draft, out of Arkansas, taken by the Los Angeles Lakers. He made his NBA debut on November 15 at Milwaukee, a 119-95 Lakers win, and the patch on this card is the one he wore that night. Hard-signed, serial 1/1, like every autograph in the set.

Why a blaster matters

Debut Patches are not a hobby-box-only chase. This one came from a retail blaster at Target, the same kind of box that produced Paul Skenes’s $1.11 million MLB Debut Patch from a Christmas gift in 2024. Of the 58 NBA cards found so far, most have come from breaks and hobby boxes; a retail pull reported by the collector is still rare, which is part of why the tracker exists.

What it might be worth

The estimates page files Thiero with the second-round picks, where the recorded sales run from $10,200 to $65,000 with a most-likely figure around $16,000. That is a comps table, not an appraisal; a one of one sells for what one buyer pays on one day. If it goes to auction or sells on eBay, the sale will be logged on the sales ledger with its source.

Still out there

41 cards remain unaccounted for. The still-out-there page lists every one. If you pull one, or see one listed, the form on the tracker is the fastest way to get it recorded, and it is how this card got here.

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