A Mother’s Vow, a Worldwide Search, and the Mystery of the Dallas Mavericks Barbie (ENCORE)

ESPN Daily

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4.6 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Throughout human history, the allure of rare and mysterious artifacts has always summoned our bravest and most intrepid explorers to scour the ends of the earth. The Ark of the Covenant. The Holy Grail. And now, the Dallas Mavericks Barbie. The ultra-rare Mavs Barbie, the product of a late 90’s collaboration between Mattel and the NBA, has given collectors everywhere headaches for years as the missing piece to their Barbie collections. She is so hard to find, in fact, that some collectors have even questioned her existence. So today, as the holiday gift-giving season kicks into full gear, we revisit a conversation between Jeremy Schaap and Dave Fleming on his quest for Mavericks Barbie, why she’s so hard to find…and how Dave helped put an end to one collector’s 25-year pursuit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up, Clinton Yates here? Our production team is taking one more day to recover
0:06.5	from the holiday festivities and the travel. But with gift buying season officially in full swing, we wanted to revisit a story we did on that very topic.
0:16.5	Many of you spend days or weeks looking for that perfect present, but this story is about one
0:21.3	sports fan who spent 25 years hunting for a gift her daughter just had to have.
0:27.0	Germschap and Dave Fleming tell the tale.
0:30.0	It's Monday, November 27th.
0:32.0	This is ESPN Daily. Fleming so the new Barbie movie that everybody is talking about hits theaters today
0:46.7	What were you doing earlier this month? I was on an assignment in Orlando that I think basically everyone else the size of the Death Star,
1:10.0	and I was at the world's largest Barbie Collector Convention.
1:19.4	They have thousands ofors and experts and appraisers
1:25.9	Everything in the world of Barbie Corps is there and they're there for a week
1:31.0	Just doing all kinds of things, Barbie, and I was there on the hunt for a lost Barbie.
1:40.0	Okay, I was assuming that maybe LeBron James has this hobby, and he was down there or Leonel
1:51.1	Messy is a big Barbie guy and so you know you were kind of following them
1:55.8	around as they were at the Barbie convention that was not the case. No but there is a
1:59.5	sports connection and that was the whole point.
2:03.6	When my editor pitched the story to me, all she said was,
2:09.8	Flem, I'm just gonna give you the Cliff Notes version.
2:15.0	Missing Dallas Mavericks Barbie.
2:18.1	And I was like, I'm in, I'm in.
2:20.2	I'm in.
2:20.6	And that's what I was looking for searching for hunting really for the last month
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