Two days after Cooper Flagg’s Debut Patch came out of a pack in Rhode Island, bidding on it reached $3.6 million. The card wasn’t for sale.
Alt had opened what it called a Debut Bounty Auction — real bids, binding, but only if the owner chose to consign the card to Alt. If he went anywhere else, every bid voided. It was an auction for a card the company didn’t have. Jason Williams, who’d paid $515 for the Mavericks spot in a three-box break, turned it down. He also turned down a $1.5 million cash advance from Ken Goldin. The card is going to Fanatics Collect instead.
That’s the one everybody knows about. There are 98 others, and most of them nobody can account for.
What these actually are
Every player making his NBA debut this season wore a patch for that one game. Afterwards the patch was cut off, authenticated, and set into a single card in 2025-26 Topps Chrome Update, signed by the player.
Ninety-nine exist. Ninety-three hard-signed, six unsigned relics. Flagg wore three patches that night and the other two were deliberately destroyed, which tells you how seriously the uniqueness is being taken.
There is no second copy of any of them and there never will be. That makes this the rare set where has it been pulled? has a definitive answer for every card.
Nobody was keeping that answer.
46 found, 53 not
So I built Has It Been Pulled? — every card in the set, tracked one at a time. Whether it’s surfaced, when, who has it, and the video or photo that proves it.
The rule is the part that matters. A report with working video or a clear photo reads Yes. A claim with no evidence is logged as Claimed and stays out of the total. Otherwise the number means nothing.
Two caveats worth stating plainly. Not seen isn’t the same as not pulled — an empty row means nobody has reported that card publicly, and plenty go straight into a safe. And a lot of these are redemptions, so a confirmed hit on stream doesn’t mean the physical card exists in anyone’s hands yet.
Three of them, one auction
Flagg, Dylan Harper and Kon Knueppel all resolve in the same Fanatics Collect sale, 10–24 September. Three one-of-one debut patches from the top four picks, settling in the same two weeks.
Nothing at that end of the market has sold yet. The best comps so far are Nolan Traore at $26,100 and Will Richard at $25,999 — Richard went 56th overall, and his previous best sale was $4,128. On the 24th we find out what the top of this format is actually worth.
If you’ve seen one
Submit it. Pick the player, add the date and a link to the proof, and it comes to me for review. Nothing goes up until I’ve checked it. Handles rather than real names, and anonymous is fine — the card counts either way.