Forty-two of the 99 NBA Debut Patch cards in 2025-26 Topps Chrome Update have not turned up publicly. A new page on the tracker, What are the unpulled NBA Debut Patches worth?, puts a number on each of them: $1.48 million most likely for all 42 together, with a range of $1.09 million to $3.95 million.
How the numbers are worked out
No model. The page does what a dealer would do: it takes the 18 recorded NBA sales and groups them by the player’s draft slot. Top five picks, the rest of the lottery, the rest of the first round, the second round, undrafted. An unpulled card’s low and high are the lowest and highest sale in its band, and its most likely price is the band’s median. A band with fewer than three sales is pooled with its neighbour and the row says so. All-Rookie Team players move to the top of their band, because the two All-Rookie players whose cards have sold, Cooper Flagg and Dylan Harper, both sold at the top of theirs.
The bands today: top five picks $2.34 million to $8.04 million (three sold, none left). Lottery picks $26,100 to $162,000. Late first round $10,200 to $65,000. Second round $10,200 to $65,000, most likely $16,000. Undrafted $10,100 to $15,000, most likely $14,000.
The ones to watch
VJ Edgecombe’s unsigned card is the biggest thing still out there, most likely $809,082. It is also the thinnest estimate on the page: the top-five band scaled by the only unsigned sale on record, and the page says exactly that. Nikola Topić and Noa Essengue, both 12th picks, sit at $36,999 most likely with a ceiling of $162,000, which is what Derik Queen’s unscratched redemption brought at Fanatics Collect. Yang Hansen is filed with the late first round at $20,000, and the page notes what the draft slot does not capture: a buyer base in China that no comp on the ledger describes.
Twenty-two of the 42 are undrafted or two-way players, and the three undrafted sales so far landed between $10,100 and $15,000. That is most of the list.
What the estimates leave out
Where a card sells. The three seven-figure sales were graded cards at a Fanatics Collect auction; most of the rest were raw cards or redemptions sold on eBay within days of being pulled. A lottery card that goes to an auction house graded will beat its band. Who the player becomes. The bands are frozen at draft slot plus a first-season award. And the pull itself: a card pulled on a stream by a known breaker tends to sell faster and higher than one that surfaces quietly.
Every build re-reads the sales ledger, so when a card in a band sells, every estimate in that band moves. These are estimates from public sales, not appraisals and not advice. The still-out-there page has the list of 42; the pricing guide explains why comps beat guesses.
