Dylan Harper’s card market has gone from hot to historic in a hurry.
The San Antonio Spurs guard’s one-of-one Rookie Debut Patch Autograph sold for $2.88 million, setting a new public record for a Harper card and blowing past the previous mark by a massive margin. Just six days earlier, the high-water mark belonged to a different Harper one-of-one: a 2025-26 Bowman Chrome Autographs SuperFractor that went for $320,860 on Sept. 19 in Goldin’s Summer Goldin 100 Auction.
That Bowman card was PSA graded NM-MT 8, signed in blue ink, and Goldin said in a Facebook post the week before the sale that the odds of pulling it were 1:50,378 hobby packs. Goldin’s listed prices include a 22% buyer’s premium.
The card that set the new standard is the one that carries the patch from Harper’s first NBA game, played on Oct. 22, 2025, in Dallas. In that debut, Harper scored 15 points and the Spurs beat the Dallas Mavericks 125-92. WeTheHobby pulled the redemption on Aug. 14 during a Fanatics Live break.
Harper’s climb in the hobby has been steady, then explosive. His market had already been reaching new peaks since February.
On Feb. 19, a Topps Chrome Next Stop Signatures SuperFractor graded BGS 9.5 sold for $43,201.20 through Alt, according to Card Ladder. Then on May 1, during San Antonio’s second-round series against the Minnesota Timberwolves, a 2025-26 Topps Chrome SuperFractor autograph sold for $280,000 on eBay.
That card was graded PSA 7, and the seller had originally listed it for $449,999 before accepting a best offer.
Friday’s auction also put Harper in rare company among Spurs card sales. According to the Express-News, only three other Spurs players have seen cards top $100,000.
Victor Wembanyama has several such cards, and his top five range from about half a million dollars to $5.1 million. That $5.1 million card is a one-of-one 2023-24 Panini Prizm Black rookie graded PSA 10, with Fanatics Collect brokering the private sale in May.
Wembanyama’s previous record was $860,100 at Goldin in February 2025.
Harper’s new card record came in the same auction that saw two other huge rookie debut patch sales from the same game. Cooper Flagg’s card sold for $8.04 million, while Kon Knueppel’s brought $2.34 million. Dallas drafted Flagg first overall in 2025, San Antonio took Harper second, and the Charlotte Hornets selected Knueppel fourth.
On the floor, Harper delivered enough to make the hobby buzz feel justified. In his first NBA season, he averaged 11.8 points, 3.4 rebounds and 3.9 assists across 69 games and earned All-Rookie First Team honors. In the NBA Finals against the New York Knicks, he came off the bench in all five games and put up 18.0 points, 6.4 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game.
Harper signed a two-year, $25.36 million rookie-scale contract in July 2025, and it includes a team option for 2027-28 worth $13.61 million.
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