Every Cooper Flagg Rookie Card, Ranked by Print Run and Price

Cooper Flagg's rookie year was also the first season of Topps' NBA license, and Topps put him in everything. Topps' checklists for the 2025-26 season list 372 different Cooper Flagg cards across 23 products, from the paper Flagship base card up to a one-of-one patch autograph cut from the jersey he wore in his first NBA game. Of those, 127 are autographs.

This is a map of all of it, ranked by how many copies of each card exist. Where a card has a serial number, the count is exact. Where it doesn't, we use the production estimates from our print-run breakdowns, and where we have no estimate we say so. Prices are recent sale prices as of mid-November 2026, rounded, for raw cards unless a grade is named.

Why Flagg is the chase

The Dallas Mavericks took Flagg first overall in the 2025 NBA Draft. He made his debut on October 22, 2025, with 10 points and 10 rebounds against San Antonio, and wears number 32.

His rookie season held up. He averaged 21.0 points, 6.7 rebounds and 4.5 assists over 70 games and led all rookies in scoring. He scored 42 against Utah on December 15, which made him the youngest player in NBA history with a 40-point game, then 49 against Charlotte in January and 51 against Orlando on April 3, the youngest 50-point game on record. He was voted Rookie of the Year on April 27, 2026, with 56 first-place votes to Kon Knueppel's 44, and made the All-Rookie First Team in May. He was the second-youngest player to win the award.

That is the whole case: a first overall pick who won the award, in the first year of a new card license, with a one-of-one debut patch at the top. Every product below was built with him as the headline rookie.

The short version

• 372 Flagg cards in 23 products. Twenty-one of the products are out. Two more, Topps x Bob Ross: The Joy of Basketball (November 16) and Stadium Club (November 25), add 38 of the cards.
• 127 autographs. He signs alone on 99 and shares 28 with other players, from Dylan Harper and Kon Knueppel to Dirk Nowitzki and Jayson Tatum.
• 90,424 serial-numbered copies. That is every numbered parallel of every card added together, if he appears in every parallel our data lists. Of those, 17,549 are numbered autographs.
• 277 one-of-ones. The parallel ladders add up to 271. The NBA Debut Patch Autograph and five Definitive nameplate letters make it 277. Of those, 102 are signed.
• The scarcest: the NBA Debut Patch Autograph in Chrome Update. One copy.
• The most common we can count: the Chrome Update base card, #151, at more than 220,000 copies across every version.

Two cautions on those totals. Topps' odds sheets carry a note that a player on the checklist is not guaranteed to appear in every parallel, so the numbered totals are ceilings. And a few products have ladders with no print runs in our data yet, which pulls the other way. Both are listed near the end.

What counts as a Flagg rookie card

Every Flagg card in a 2025-26 product carries the rookie tag on Topps' checklist. The cards most collectors mean by "rookie card" are the base cards, the ones with a regular card number in the main set. Flagg has 26 of those across 21 products, because Finest, Bowman and Signature Class have more than one.

His two second-year products, 2026-27 Topps Flagship and 2026-27 Topps NBA Hoops, are not rookie cards. Neither are the four cards Topps made for the 2026 National. Those 47 cards are left out of every count here.

The base rookies, product by product

Numbered copies is the sum of every serial-numbered parallel of that one card, with a one-of-one counted as one. The last column is our estimate of the copies with no serial number, and it is filled in only where we have worked the product's odds.

Motif and Definitive are missing from that table on purpose. Topps' checklist has no Flagg base card in Motif, and Definitive has no base set at all.

A few notes on the ones we can count in full:

Chrome Update #151 is the common one. Our Chrome Update breakdown puts each base card at roughly 170,000 to 180,000 copies, and that figure is a ceiling that leaves out two formats. The unnumbered refractors add at least 49,772 more of each card, led by the X-Fractor (at least 13,094) and the plain Refractor (at least 12,062). With the 4,546 numbered copies, that is somewhere around 224,000 to 234,000 Flagg #151s. A raw base copy has been selling for about $10, and a PSA 10 for about $265.

Chrome Black #101 comes to about 8,900. Our Chrome Black breakdown has roughly 7,500 hobby copies of each rookie base card and 1,402 numbered copies behind it. The rookies were printed heavier than the veterans in that set, so a Flagg base is easier to find than most of the first 100 cards. Raw copies have been selling for about $30, and a PSA 10 for about $165.

Pristine #111 comes to about 8,080. Our Pristine breakdown has roughly 5,100 base copies, about 1,490 Refractors and about 650 Paint the Arc parallels of each card, and 840 numbered copies across the three formats. The Refractor has been selling raw for about $75 to $90, and a PSA 10 for about $370.

Inception #22 comes to about 2,990. Our Inception breakdown puts the Base and the unnumbered Green together at about 2,600 copies of each card, with 390 numbered copies from the Purple /125 down to the Inception 1/1. Of the base rookies we can count in full, it is the scarcest. Raw copies have been selling for about $60 to $75, and a PSA 10 for about $375.

Chrome Update Sapphire #151 has a floor, not a count. Our Chrome Update Sapphire breakdown can only say at least about 560 base copies, because Topps doesn't list cards per pack. With 166 numbered, that is at least about 726.

For the rest, the numbered ladder is all we have. Flagship #201 has 4,450 numbered copies, including a Gold numbered to 2,025, and Topps Chrome #251 has 4,059. Both are mass-market products and the plain base cards will run far past those figures, but we have not worked their odds, so there is no estimate here. The plain Flagship #201 is the cheapest way in, about $4 raw and about $100 in a PSA 10. Its Gold /2025 has been selling for about $215 to $320 raw. Topps Chrome #251 runs about $18 raw and about $280 in a PSA 10. Its unnumbered Refractor is a different card on price: about $250 to $330 raw and about $1,650 in a PSA 10.

Bowman's chrome card, BCV-1, has the biggest numbered ladder of any Flagg card: 5,283 copies across 53 numbered parallels. Hoops #35 has 2,573. BCV-1 runs about $7 raw and about $250 in a PSA 10. Hoops #35 runs about $7 raw and about $200 in a PSA 10.

The variations and short prints

These share a card number with a base card and are easy to miss in a listing.

The Denim Tears card is the one to know. Topps calls it an SSP parallel, it has no serial number, and the odds put it at about 10 copies of each card across every format. That makes an unnumbered Flagg Denim Tears about as scarce as a card numbered to 10. We could not find a recent public sale of Flagg's.

The Image Variation in Chrome Update is the opposite case: a variation with about 996 unnumbered copies, more than many numbered parallels of the base card. Its own ladder runs from a Green Speckle /99 to a SuperFractor. The base Image Variation has been selling raw for about $450 to $550, and a PSA 10 for about $1,750.

Flagship and Stadium Club also list Flagg variations (Blackout, Golden Mirror Image and Team Color Border in Flagship, and design, image and Members Only photo variations in Stadium Club), but our data has no print runs for them.

A handful of inserts are scarce enough to belong in the same conversation:

• Infinite Sapphire (Chrome Update Sapphire): about 26 copies of each card, no parallels.
• Home Court (Chrome Black): about 48 copies plus a Black Refractor 1/1, 49 in all.
• Sapphire Selections (Chrome Update Sapphire): about 380 unnumbered copies and 91 numbered, about 471 in all.
• Minions NBA (Chrome Update): about 91 copies, a Red /5 and a SuperFractor, about 97 in all. Flagg is one of five players in the set.
• Endgame, Launch and Splashdown (Inception): about 130 of each, with no parallels.

The NBA Debut Patch Autograph

One card sits above everything else. The NBA Debut Patch Autograph in 2025-26 Topps Chrome Update, card DPA-CF, holds the patch Flagg wore on his jersey in his first game on October 22, 2025, and his signature. There is one copy.

Chrome Update has 93 of these, one for each player, and our breakdown found them spread across every format: 26 in hobby boxes, 23 in jumbo, 17 in Breaker's Delight, 3 in Fanatics packs and about 24 in Value and Mega boxes. In a hobby box the odds were one in 3,737 boxes for any of the 93. For Flagg's in particular, multiply by 93.

His has been found. It was pulled from a box in a break and sold at public auction in September 2026. It brought $8.04 million, the highest price paid for a card of a single basketball player.

There is nothing to chase here for anyone else, but it sets the frame for the rest of his cards. Every other Flagg autograph is, by count, more common than this one, including the 101 other signed one-of-ones.

The scarcity table

The cards that matter, ranked by total copies of that one card across every version, scarcest first. "Numbered" is the serial-numbered sum. "No serial" is our estimate for the unnumbered versions. Where it says none listed, our data shows no unnumbered version and the count is serial-numbered only.

Notes on the table:

• Rank 3. The Definitive dual, triple and Moments autographs each have a base version and a Gold 1/1. The odds put the base versions at 9.8 to 9.9 copies of each card, which fits a run of 10, and a base Dual Rookie Autograph of two other rookies has been seen numbered to 10.
• Ranks 5 to 8, numbered only. For these, our data lists only numbered versions. If an unnumbered version exists, the total is higher.
• Rank 10. A Kon Knueppel Apprentice Numerical card has been shown numbered 7/7, his jersey number. If the set runs that way, Flagg's would be numbered to 32. The odds only give the set average, about 21 copies a card.
• Rank 12. A Splatter Signatures card of another player has been shown numbered to 25, and the odds come to about 26 of each card.
• Rank 29. The First Day Issue Red Electricity and Green Electricity have no confirmed run on Rookie Autographs. On Silver Signings they are a /16 and a /8, and Topps' product page shows a Flagg Silver Signings on green numbered 8/8. If the same holds here, add 24.
• The big autograph ladders. On Chrome Black and Chrome Update our breakdowns found that the largest numbered colors have room for only a fraction of the signers. Read the numbered figure on ranks 32 to 38 as the most there could be.
• Chrome Black counts are hobby only. Instant Packs add to them, by a share Topps' sheets don't give.

The main rookie autographs

Outside the premium boxes, these are the autographs most collectors will run into. Only Chrome Update has an estimate for the unnumbered version.

The Bowman Chrome autograph is the outlier. Its ladder has 37 versions and 2,783 numbered copies, close to five times the Topps Chrome autograph's 582, and that is before the unnumbered versions. If you want a signed Flagg in a chrome finish and don't care which color, Bowman is where the supply is. The Refractor /499 has been selling raw for about $1,300 to $1,600, and the unnumbered base autograph for about $1,000.

The Flagship Real One and the first Topps Chrome autograph are his earliest signed cards, from October and December 2025. Our data has 91 numbered Real Ones and no count for the unnumbered version. The base Real One has been selling for about $930 to $1,000. The base Topps Chrome autograph has been selling raw for about $1,700 to $2,000, and a PSA 10 for about $7,000.

In Pristine, the base Rookie Autograph comes to about 240 copies, behind a ladder of 629 numbered. In Chrome Black, the base Rookie Autograph is about 76 copies, fewer than the runs printed on its own Refractor /299, Blue /150 and Green /99. That pattern, where the plain version is scarcer than several colors, shows up again in Inception. The base Pristine autograph is priced at about $1,800 raw, on few sales.

Inception, Motif and Definitive

These three are where the low counts are. Almost every Flagg card in them is signed.

Inception has 13 Flagg cards, nine of them autographs. The plain Rookie Autograph comes to about 38 copies, scarcer than its Pink /99, Red /75 and Gold Electricity /50. The Rookie Jumbo Relic Autograph is the easy one at about 190 to 220 unnumbered copies. The NBA First Milestone Autograph Relic is the hard one: a /10, a Sky Blue /5 and a one-of-one, 16 copies in all. The two Dual Rookie Relic Autographs (with Harper and with Liam McNeeley) and the booklet with Harper start at a Blue /25 and have no unnumbered version, so each is exactly 41 copies. The base Inception autograph last sold raw for about $1,500, in August.

Motif has 11 Flagg cards and no base card. He signs nine. The four Rookie Relic Autograph sets (single, dual, triple and quad) share a ladder of 129 numbered copies, from the Quin Gold /49 to the Platinum 1/1, and the unnumbered version of each comes to about 67.5 to 73 copies. Our Motif breakdown also found the Rookie Relic Autographs Platinum line counting 57 one-of-ones for 30 rookies, which fits the Logoman autographs Topps' product page promises for this rookie class, though the sheet has no line that names them. If a Flagg Logoman autograph exists, it is not in the counts here. The single Rookie Relic Autograph is priced at about $1,500 raw, on few sales.

Definitive has 24 Flagg cards: 17 autographs and seven relics. No one signs more cards in the product. Seven of his single-signed sets share one ladder, Orange /25, Pink /15, Black /10, Red /5, Blue /2 and Gold 1/1, which is 58 numbered copies. The Rookie Defining Games Relic Autograph skips the Pink, for 43. The differences are in the base versions, per our Definitive breakdown:

Add those up and the nine cards in that table come to about 780 copies, and none of the nine has more than about 98. The Rookie Patch Autograph base is numbered to 35 on Topps' product page. We could not find a public sale of either one.

Then come the shared cards: three Dual Rookie Autographs (with Harper, Knueppel and Yang Hansen) and four Triple Rookie Autographs, each about 10 base copies and a Gold 1/1. And five Nameplate II cards, each a single letter from a jersey nameplate and each a one-of-one per Topps' product page.

A buyer's map by scarcity

These tiers are sorted by how many copies exist, which is the part that doesn't change. Prices move, and the ones quoted here are from mid-November 2026.

Six figures of supply: the paper and chrome base cards. Chrome Update #151 is past 220,000 copies. Flagship #201, Topps Chrome #251 and Hoops #35 have no estimate here but come from the same kind of mass-market run. These are the cards to own if you just want a Flagg rookie. Condition matters more than scarcity at this level.

Thousands: premium base cards and the big numbered colors. Chrome Black #101 (about 8,900), Pristine #111 (about 8,080) and Inception #22 (about 2,990) are base rookies with a real ceiling. In the same range by count sit the largest numbered parallels of the mass-market cards, like the Flagship Gold /2025.

Hundreds: variations, Sapphire and mid-ladder colors. The Chrome Update Image Variation (about 1,186 in all), the Chrome Black Rookie Design Variation (about 500), the Chrome Update Sapphire base (at least about 726) and the two Bowman and Chrome Update Sapphire base cards with 166 numbered copies each. Numbered parallels from /399 down to /99 of the Chrome, Chrome Update and Bowman Chrome base cards land here too.

Hundreds, signed: the retail and hobby autographs. Chrome Update's five main Flagg autographs run from about 637 to about 943 copies each, Pristine's Rookie Autograph about 869 and Chrome Black's about 930. The Bowman Chrome autograph has 2,783 numbered copies on its own. This is the widest part of the signed market.

About 100 to 500, signed: the premium rookie autographs. Inception's Rookie Autograph (about 303 to 327) and Jumbo Relic Autograph (about 455 to 485), the four Motif relic autographs (about 197 to 225 each) and Pristine Pieces (about 377).

Under 100: Definitive, Sapphire autographs and the short sets. Every single-signed Definitive autograph, the three Chrome Update Sapphire autographs at 91 each, Inception's Dawn of Greatness (about 91), and the unnumbered oddities like Home Court (49) and Infinite Sapphire (about 26).

Under 30. The Denim Tears (about 10), the Definitive duals, triples and Moments autograph (about 11 each), the Inception First Milestone Autograph Relic (16), Motif's dual with Nowitzki (about 19) and Splatter Signatures (about 26), and Pristine's Mark of the Moment (about 25).

One. The 277 one-of-ones, with the NBA Debut Patch Autograph on top.

One thing the counts make plain: unnumbered does not mean common. The Denim Tears, Infinite Sapphire, Home Court and the base Inception and Chrome Black autographs all carry no serial number and all have fewer copies than numbered cards in the same box.

Every product, by the numbers

Flagg cards, autographs and total numbered copies in each 2025-26 product, in release order.

Topps Chrome carries the most numbered Flagg cards, 22,124, because he is in 25 of its inserts and most of them have long ladders. Flagship has the most different cards, 45.

What these counts leave out

• Products with no print runs in our data. Holiday, Chrome Sapphire, Three, Cosmic Chrome and Chrome Cactus Jack list their parallels without runs, and Bob Ross has no parallels listed yet. The small numbered figures on those rows count only their one-of-ones. Topps Three is the big gap: 25 Flagg cards, 17 of them autographs, and a ladder for only one.
• Cards with no ladder at all. Of the 372 cards, 78 have no parallels listed in our data, including the Flagship and Stadium Club variations.
• Topps' note on parallels. A player on the checklist is not guaranteed to be in every parallel. The 90,424 figure assumes he is.
• Estimates are for the set, not the player. An estimate like "about 38 copies" is the average for every card in that set. Topps does not publish per-player counts.
• Formats our breakdowns skip. Chrome Update leaves out Breaker's Delight and Fanatics base cards, and Chrome Black is hobby only.
• The Logoman autographs Topps' product page promises in Motif.

His second-year cards

For anyone sorting a stack: 2026-27 Topps Flagship, out November 5, has 28 Flagg cards, including two base cards (#157 and #232), and 2026-27 Topps NBA Hoops has 15 more on December 10. Those 43 are second-year cards. Our 2026-27 Flagship breakdown has the print runs.

We'll update this piece as Bob Ross and Stadium Club release, as odds sheets fill in the missing ladders, and as prices move. Odds are Topps' intended configuration at the time of production, and actual contents can vary.

Every checklist and parallel is on the release pages linked above, and you can track what you own in HobbyMonitor Collections.

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This is not financial advice. These are cards. The data and analysis are here to inform. You make your own calls.

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Published: November 2026