{"id":338837,"date":"2025-12-16T14:10:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T19:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beckett.com\/news\/?p=338837"},"modified":"2025-12-16T14:10:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T19:10:21","slug":"looking-back-at-lebron-james-topps-chrome-basketball-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beckett.com\/news\/looking-back-at-lebron-james-topps-chrome-basketball-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back at LeBron James’ Topps Chrome Basketball Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With Topps making its licensed return to the basketball card industry for the 2025-26 trading card year, most NBA players are getting their first Topps Chrome cards in the new release<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there are a handful of players who previously had licensed Topps Chrome cards \u2013 most notably LeBron James, who made his first appearance on the popular chromium brand in 2003. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In celebration of LeBron\u2019s legendary career and Topps Chrome\u2019s return, let\u2019s take a look back at the LeBron James\u2019 Topps Chrome basketball cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/ins>\n\n\n\n

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2003-04 Topps Chrome #111 RC<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Rookies in the 2003-04 Topps flagship base set had photos taken at the NBA Draft, but Topps swapped those out for preseason action photos in Topps Chrome. LeBron\u2019s rookie card shows him taking a jumper over Detroit\u2019s Ben Wallace \u2013 a fitting pairing of two players who would become rivals throughout the rest of the decade. The image hails from a preseason game played on October 7, 2003, and has helped make this one of LeBron\u2019s most popular base rookie cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parallels:<\/strong> Base Refractor, Black Refractor (\/500), X-Fractor (\/220), and Gold Refractor (\/50).<\/p>\n\n\n\n