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Sports Cards Nonsense

LARGEST Sports Card Sale in History a Recipe for Disaster + Major Pod Announcement

Sports Cards Nonsense

The Ringer

Sports

4.8978 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Mike Gioseffi is joined by Ryan Alford, the host of the new Collectibles on SI Podcast to discuss the record-breaking Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant sports card that EVERYONE is talking about. Plus, we get to know Ryan who is relatively new to the sports cards space, after recently getting back into it. He cannot believe how much money is in the hobby, for starters. What’s the value of an SGC 9 vs a Beckett 9 vs a PSA 9. And why is a 9 not a 10?  Plus, Mike answers your questions on the NFL Topps product he’s most looking forward to, how to manage card flipping, his favorite cards right now, and the piece of memorabilia he wants most. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, guys, solo show. Jesse is not here. He is up in New York goofing around,

0:12.6

driving in a 16-person passenger van like an idiot or doing whatever else he's doing,

0:16.7

and I'm sure, raiding Pokemon shops and pushing kids.

0:23.1

So, it should be fun episode.

0:23.8

We have Ryan Alfred.

0:27.4

He's going to be hosting the new Collectibles on SI podcast over on the SCN media.

0:30.1

That's probably going to be our biggest podcast launch.

0:32.6

He has a massive following in like the business finance world.

0:35.6

So actually that thing is already.

0:38.8

Rebecca, if you could jump on for a second, I don't actually understand how that works. How is that show already ranking? Like, I don't know how that,

0:43.5

like it doesn't debut till tonight. How does that? He put out a little trailer. It's like maybe a

0:48.9

three minute trailer to explain the show, what he'll be doing. And so that has just been taken up.

0:53.7

People are really excited about the trailer. And so that is how he's got in now it's i think number four in the apple podcast he beat simmons for a minute there the old boss man okay yeah i didn't know i was like there's no episode out what are people listening to okay so that's awesome like hey great like i think that hopefully it's massive and he's got the kind of the perspective of Jesse, like the new guy coming in, which

1:13.9

I think will be cool. So he'll be here in a few minutes. Um, biggest thing I do want to talk about today, obviously, with a little bit of a, I don't know, I don't want to say nuanced take. because only, like, I feel like only elite clowns say the word nuanced, but obviously the LeBron, not the LeBron,

1:28.7

I keep saying that.

1:29.4

The Kobe Jordan Dual Logo Man Auto sold at auction.

1:32.3

I believe Heritage sold the card, went for 12.5 or a little over $12.5 million, almost

1:37.1

$13 million last night.

1:38.9

And it was announced, I think it was this morning or yesterday, that Kevin O'Leary and then

1:43.9

shine, the bald little guy who does a bunch of massive high-end cards. Apparently, I don't know where his money's from. Crazy, crazy rich dude. Him, Kevin O'Leary and some other guy I never heard of formed like a little team of buying like a conglomerate. They called it a syndicate where they're going out and buying these high-end pieces. Fantastic. And so the most

2:02.2

popular take has been, and everybody, I have seen this. And I hate when things like this happen,

2:06.4

because it gives content creators the excuse to just be lazy. And so it's like, hey, this doesn't

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