23 and Me: Our Worldwide Hunt for the Missing, Million-Dollar Jordan Rookie Cards

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends

Sports

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Forty years ago this week, the Chicago Bulls drafted Michael Jordan — giving rise to the holiest of basketball grails. Twenty-three autographed Jordan rookie cards would be scattered across the globe, in the form of Wonka-esque golden tickets. But at last check, nine of these cards had vanished. Correspondent Bradley Campbell gets to the bottom of a seven-figure mystery — spanning four decades, three continents, black-market conspiracies and an armored-car robber — that presaged the modern era of sports collectibles as an asset class. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torrey finds out. I am Pablo Torrey and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:06.0	And there's like 50 fricking Michael Jordan rookie cards all stacked up and I was like,
0:12.0	what and where the
0:13.2	ff did he get these right after this ad.
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1:07.0	Yes.
1:08.0	I'm for calling them white.
1:12.0	Yeah. Yeah.
1:13.2	Yeah, yeah.
1:14.2	Great just makes me sad. White, and I'm like, okay, maybe it's stress induced.
1:16.2	Well, I wanted to convince myself that.
1:17.8	I want to remind you why we're here today.
1:19.8	Yeah.
1:20.8	Which is another, I would say, almost disturbing marker of our of our senescence.
1:27.6	The NBA drafted this week 40 years ago really Michael Jordan got drafted. 40 years ago. That's like a completely different
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