San Antonio Spurs rookie phenom Victor Wembanyama has already made waves in the NFT world along a six-figure sale through Sorare NBA last week, and now the 19-year-old Hoops star is set to make his debut NBA top shot this afternoon.
Wembanyama is one of the new NBA players from the Rookie Debut: Headliners Web Pack Tuesday at 3pm ET, along with Brandon Miller, Scoot Henderson, Amen Thompson, Ausar Thompson and Chet Holmgren.
Each pack contains a total of five NFT collectibles, each featuring a video highlight from an NBA player, with one of those five moments coming from one of the aforementioned rookies. Dapper Labs will make a total of 2,445 packs available for $79 each.
Wembanyama is already impressing for Spurs, including scoring 38 points in one game last week. His first ‘Unique’ digital trading card in one edition for the NFT-based game Sorare NBA sold for more than $110,000 at auction last weekwhich is higher than the highest price paid for any of its physical trading cards: $67,333 for a pre-rookie card.
🎉 The moment you’ve been waiting for has arrived.
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NBA Top Shot is Dapper’s officially licensed NBA aggregator platform on the Flow blockchain. It was an early peak in the 2021 NFT boom, bringing tokenized collectibles into the mainstream with overwhelming demand, but sales have since dropped significantly.
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Top Shot saw about $1.5 million in NFT transactions in October, according to data from CryptoSlam. That’s down from a monthly peak of $220 million in sales in February 2021. Dapper Labs is also behind the NFL all day And UFC attack collection platforms.
Edited by Guillermo Jimenez