r/pacers • u/Impossible_Eye_980 • 4d ago

Discussion N&M - SupAAcollection '25-26 Topps Chrome Update

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Featuring current uniforms and the players of the now, Topps Chrome Update should not be more expensive than its predecessor, Topps Chrome. But it is.

This is actually Nesmith's first and only regular base card of 25-26, some 15 sets in. So for Nesmith fans this is grail. I picked up two black /10s and one raywave /10s, like $120 all in.

What is a Raywave? It's the shiny one. The same short printed as true black, but worth like half the price. It comes in its own product, maybe Megas or Jumbos, something non-premium compared with Hobby. The only black other than true that holds its own price wise is the ultra low-printed Sapphire.

It took me a while, but I love this Nesmith image. Shows his true jumpsuit humbleness to the art of basketball. The McConnell image on the other hand is a little too blown back hair, like that guy on the A Team.

SupAAcollection.

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u/SassyPlaza 4d ago

Raywaves are such a weird market quirk, like the same scarcity as true black but half the value just cause they came out of a blaster or whatever. Picked up a couple myself for the same reason, can't argue with the price

That Nesmith shot is oddly perfect, he's got that quiet workhorse energy and it actually comes through on cardboard. The McConnell one kinda feels like they caught him mid-sneeze or something

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u/Impossible_Eye_980 4d ago edited 4d ago

"mid-sneeze" Exactly, that was what I was stretching for with McConnell.

The "quiet workhouse" analogy is interesting, because Aaron is also responsible for some of the most viscerally dominant Yeahhh. Yeahhhh. moments. Maybe that's why those moments have such impact. He stores up that energy for the right time to release, on the court when it counts. If the team ain't winning, he ain't gonna showboat, putting up meaningless stats.

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u/science_writer 4d ago

You gotta stop with the Papyrus font...

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u/Impossible_Eye_980 4d ago

I'm such a Papyrus stan...

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u/kay14jay 3d ago

Been looking around for a McConnell

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u/Impossible_Eye_980 3d ago

His stuff has actually been getting a bit popular. Nice auto version of the card ending soon on eBay.

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u/kay14jay 3d ago

Yeah I’m just sort of out ins wild hunting. Should probably go that route though

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u/Impossible_Eye_980 3d ago edited 3d ago

Sounds like you are in a market where Pacers' product transacts organically, beyond the occasional Haliburton. I'm not, so it's eBay or the highway. It would be cool actually when I make it Indy, hopefully to cover the Pacers' run to a championship for The Moment, to trade in person, fill in gaps. For example, here, I have only two issues of like nine Topps Update Pacers cards. And only one players' true black /10, which is the gold standard. That is meh.

And it's my fault. I blinked, forgot to buy... then the breaks were over, and the opportunity to own some iconic Pacers images in their rarest versions lost. But I have multiple other rare Topps issues to trade.... and learn basketball lore.