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@HeatCulture13 Dude should be in the Gleague

Nikola Jovic on his lack of playing time 👀 “You feel like you’re good enough for the team to help then all the sudden you’re on the bench and feel like you’ll never see the floor again. It’s just the way the Heat is I guess. You have to be good every night for them to continue playing you. In minutes I have I got to be perfect to get consistent minutes and if I don’t I’m just going to be at the end of the bench I guess”

@fathersonpulls @CardPurchaser Dad definitely mentioned a lawsuit.

4 months ago… this metal fragment fell out of a sealed pack of cards 😳 Today, Topps sent this special package for my son. From a crazy moment, to something he’ll never forget. Credit to Topps for hearing us and going above and beyond Pic in comments 👇👇 @CardPurchaser @davisdugout @Topps @JoeyFerr42 @RonFerrante

@rawsalerts This isn’t newsworthy

🚨#BREAKING: Harry Sisson is now calling for the 25th Amendment to be invoked, saying it’s “long overdue,” as he strongly criticizes Trump, referring to him as a “deranged lunatic.”

@WaxMetrix Insanely over priced, $1500 for an auto lol. No interest in the 5th remix of the same players.

2025/26 Topps Cosmic Chrome NBA Analysis & Deep Dive As usual, we were put back in that unenviable spot that we're becoming accustomed to…making big decisions with our ass before our head can get involved. Fortunately, we now have odds, right after we all attempted to drop racks on a product we were hoping might be good. This one's coming in hot, so if it's not quite as polished as usual, you'll survive. Here's what we know so far- people are "winning" an EQL. Like a lot of people. Regular people, not just pros & bots. Heck, in a wholly unexpected turn of events, I even scored 5 boxes on this EQL. Which immediately had me worried. Yeah, I know. I can't just take my rare W and move on. I have to question everything. It's my brain. I can't turn it off. So how could this be? This never happens. The way I see it, only one of two outcomes is possible. @Topps either fixed EQL and rooted out bots en masse... or they printed Cosmic to Uranus. Allow me to ease your fears, fellow skeptics. Cosmic is certifiably NOT printed into oblivion. This is a huge release for the fresh Topps Basketball license. But thankfully, it did not receive the Topps Chrome NBA treatment. Sooooo, did Topps FIX THE EQL??!!? I, for one, will remain hopeful until we see otherwise. And if that happens to be the case, I hope they utilize EQL for other major releases like the upcoming Bowman Basketball. Before we get lost in the weeds, let’s take a quick trip back to the last Cosmic Chrome NBA release…that unlicensed beauty from Wemby’s rookie year, 2023/24 Cosmic Chrome. Except it didn’t actually release until December of 2024. Which, last I checked, was not even close to his rookie year. But we’ll save that circus for another day. Most people would rather forget that product. It’s one of the rare releases that dropped in price after release. Weird, right? Wemby rookie autos and all. Panini didn’t even have those. Cosmic did…and still went down. And it’s not like the cards were ugly. They looked good. Very Cosmic. Some legitimately great inserts, which is kind of the whole point of the product. So why bring it up? Because the dynamics are eerily similar to what we’re about to see here, just with a couple added numbered parallels. We’re about to get another real-time reminder, just like we did with Topps Chrome NBA, of how much a license actually matters. And the answer is…a lot. Probably more than it actually should. 2025/26 Cosmic Chrome Total Cards in the Product: 6,355,200 For comparison: 2023/24 Cosmic Basketball- 5,203,400 (+22.1%) Since that basketball version was unlicensed, probably a better comparison is 2025 Cosmic Chrome Baseball- 5,470,560 (+16.2%) Though this represents more production than both prior Cosmic Chrome sets, it's also not an egregious increase. If you remember, NBA Chrome was printed at a clip of 32.7% over the prior baseball version. So this one coming in at only 16% more is very reasonable in my book. Production by format: Hobby 79,440 boxes (9,930 cases) 2023/24 Cosmic Basketball- 65,043 boxes 2025 Cosmic Baseball- 68,235 boxes Lunar Boxes: As is the trend, Lunar Boxes do exist. These typically contain one Lunar parallel /10 per pack. They didn't show up as a separate format on this odds sheet like they did on the baseball odds sheet, so we're left to estimate just a bit. Based on odds, there are a total of 2,080 Lunar Base cards produced. Lunar inserts are not called out on the odds sheet, but could very well exist as we've seen in past Lunar Boxes. If we estimate 20 Lunar Base cards /10 for each Lunar Box, this should get us very close to Lunar Box production. Therefore, we have ~104 Lunar boxes produced. In Cosmic Baseball, this figure was 147 boxes, so they should be considerably tougher to hit in Cosmic NBA. Hit Rates per Box: This is an extra fun category in Cosmic because there so many abnormal facets that make this product tick. Autos- 0.37/box (1 per 2.73 boxes, or ~3 per case). This is almost identical to the auto distribution in Cosmic baseball. Parallels- 4.7/box (Also ~2.4 Insert parallels/box, so total parallels/box comes to ~7) Inserts- 12.9/box Numbered Cards- 2.3/box Total Planetary Pursuits/case- 3 Total Rare Inserts/case- 5.33 Rare inserts have changed a bit from the Cosmic we are accustomed to. In addition to the typical Planetary Pursuits, we now have the following rare inserts (Print runs on each available further down): StarFractor Re-Entry Geocentric First Light HyperNova Cosmic Dust At the time of writing, I did not see the numbered parallel structure called out on the usual checklist sites. Those are as follows: Aqua Equinox /199 Purple Nebula /150 Blue Moon /99 Green Space Dust /75 Gold Interstellar /50 Orange Galactic /25 Black Eclipse /10 Red Flare /5 Superfractor /1 Value Map- based on pre-order price of $580/box: $/card- $7.25 $/Auto- $1,585.45 $/Insert- $45.06 $/# card- $254.52 Conclusions: This is Cosmic doing Cosmic things. Slightly bigger print, sure…but still limited. We just watched First Day Issue Cosmic sell out nearly $1k over drop price of hobby for a paltry two extra parallels. That should tell you everything you need to know about demand when you slap a real NBA license on this product. Where this product wins is exactly where Cosmic always wins: 1) The visuals go hard 2) The inserts chase is addictive 3) The top-end parallels get nuclear Those Planetary Pursuits of legit stratospheric names? Four figures may be a conservative estimate. Yeah, no auto hurts at this price. We all feel it. But let’s be honest…if they guaranteed autos in this, you're paying $1500+/box secondary. This isn’t Finest, which was actually pretty solid. This isn’t Topps Three (thank God). This is a collector-driven, star-powered, eye-candy monster…and the basketball crowd hasn’t had a proper one yet. And they're hungry. They're getting tired of buying exorbitantly priced Chrome Megas and Value Boxes. Like Mason Miller's new Korn intro...."Are You Ready?!" What Would the Squatch Do? What the Squatch did do is not hesitate. Full transparency, I maxed the 5-box EQL and didn’t blink. If this is your jam, you play. Simple as that. We just had pre-orders. There will be another drop in a month. It's worth a shot to try and get some at MSRP. This clears recent Topps Finest NBA in terms of ceiling, and that stuff is already $925+ a box. Cosmic will surpass that, probably with ease. Boxes are going up. That part feels inevitable. Breaks will be chaos. This is one of those releases where everything just… works. Cosmic doesn’t miss often. And when you finally give it a license and a basketball checklist? Yeah...this one’s going to punch harder than the baseball versions. And those already double in price like clockwork. Hidden Values No One Will Be Talking About 1) White Hole Refractors are unnumbered but limited to ~65 copies ea. 2) If you are a Planetary Pursuit chaser and want the rarest possible, as usual it is Pluto. However, there are only 2 less copies of Neptune printed, and only 5 less Uranus. And typically these are wildly discounted from the crazy Pluto pricing, even though they are almost equally as scarce. 3) Alien Autographs are an awesome new Auto Subset. The print run on the base of these, 40, is lower than the Gold parallels /50. Print runs: Base production- ~24,660 ea Parallels: Base Refractors- ~800 ea Base Nucleus- ~400 ea White Hole Refractors- ~65 ea Inserts: Galaxy Greats (35 card CL)- ~7,570 ea Galaxy Greats Refractor- ~1,260 ea Extraterrestrial Talent (25 card CL)- ~7,950 ea Extraterrestrial Talent Refractor- ~1,270 ea Propulsion (25 card CL)- ~7,950 ea Propulsion Refractor- ~1,270 ea Space Walk (15 card CL)- ~8,150 ea Space Walk Refractor- ~1,280 ea StarFractor (50 card CL)- ~55 ea Re-Entry (40 card CL)- ~50 ea Geocentric (30 card CL)- ~50 ea First Light (30 card CL)- ~50 ea HyperNova (20 card CL)- ~400 ea Cosmic Dust (20 card CL)- ~100 ea Planetary Pursuits (10 card CL for each): Sun- ~1,990 ea Mercury- ~485 ea Venus- ~250 ea Earth- ~125 ea Mars- ~66 ea Jupiter- ~33 ea Saturn- ~20 ea Uranus- ~10 ea Neptune- ~7 ea Pluto- ~5 ea Autos: Cosmic Chrome Auto Variation Refractor (48 card CL)- ~99 ea Singularity Signatures Refractor (46 card CL)- ~105 ea Alien Autos Refractor (32 card CL)- ~40 ea Electro-Static Signatures Refractor (30 card CL)- ~66 ea First Flight Signatures Refractor (29 card CL)- ~80 ea Cosmic Chrome Auto Variation II Refractor (2 card CL)- ~25 ea #thehobby #SlabSquatchAnalytics #2025ToppsCosmicChromeNBA

@Topps ⏰ 5 Days 5 Disasters 100% bots getting everything. ⏰ Fix your system for releases. ⏰

⏰ RELEASING THIS WEEK ⏰ 2026 Topps Chrome Black Baseball - Pre-Order ⚾️⚫️ Mon. 3/30 - 12 PM EST Hobby Box: $199.99 2 packs per pox, 6 cards per pack 1 encased autograph per box 2025-26 Topps Cosmic Chrome Basketball - Pre-Order 🪐🏀 Tues. 3/31 - 12 PM EST Hobby Box: $579.99 20 packs per box, 4 cards per pack 2025 Topps Chrome Deadpool ⚔️ Wed. 4/1 - 12 PM EST Hobby Box: $219.99 10 packs per box, 8 cards per pack 2025 Topps Exalted WWE 🤼 Wed. 4/1 - 1 PM EST Hobby Box: $219.99 1 pack per box, 5 cards per pack 2 autographs and 1 relic per box 2025-26 Topps Chrome UCC First Day Issue - Pre-Order ⚽️ Thurs. 4/2 - 12 PM EST 20 packs per box, 4 cards per pack 1 exclusive FDI parallel autograph per box

@Topps Another absolute disaster preorder with bots getting 100%, when are you going to make changes?

JUST PULLED: Roman Anthony's 1-of-1 Heritage rookie autograph was found at a local GameStop 🔥

@senortilt “We”

I walked up to my friend playin video poker. He takes a break to talk to me. First hand with me there we hit this

@KiefDurban2 @eMoney_HQ Just two boxes being refunded from Topps

@AppleMagic21 @eMoney_HQ Appears to be reselling on Shopify as his card is being credited via there.

A reseller spent $55,000 on Bowman Basketball Hobby Boxes today... 👀 Retail: $350 Resell: $500+ Over $23,000 in profit incoming from this release🤑

@Topps It’s all bots who cares

Each hobby box of Bowman Basketball will contain (1) NBA autograph and (1) NCAA autograph. Every jumbo hobby box will contain (2) NBA autographs and (2) NCAA autographs. Each delight box will contain (2) NBA autographs and (1) NCAA autograph.

@WaxMetrix Not me

I've seen the same story from dozens of people regarding the 2025 Bowman's Best drop yesterday. Did ANYONE actually have success in ordering from the Topps website at the scheduled drop? There's no question it was an absolute shitshow. I'm just curious if someone out there was able to grab any product. Let me know if it worked for you and I'd love to know your secret as well. Feel free to DM if you don't want it getting out there.

@dharth57 @arielhelwani No one does care

@arielhelwani I will never understand why people care about stuff like this. We know neither of these women are anywhere near their prime and wouldnt beat anyone in the top 10 so why is it a big deal?

Unbelievable. What a scene.

@HeatCulture13 Bill hasn’t watched what it’s like when Herro and Powell both play.

Bill Simmons on the Heat 5 game winning streak: “I watched that Rockets game, that’s when I got scared. What they did to Charlotte Friday was notable. Then just took it to Detroit. Herro is just back! Herro is like ‘I’m actually offended you guys forgot I was good at basketball and I was thrown in trade deadline sh*t. Like I’m good.’ Bam has gotten better offensively as the season went along… he’s been a 22 & 10 guy for two months. For the playoffs you have two heat check guys, Bam who’s steady, a defensive identity, good coach, some weird bench guys and wings. I just don’t want to see them in a series. I’m just horrified” (Via @BillSimmons)

@latenightercom What’s a Connor storrie?

Team USA hockey champs Jack and Quinn Hughes, Hilary Knight and Megan Keller joined Connor Storrie for his SNL monologue

@AngelMD1103 Michelle is retarded, no way she can handle all this math

It’s 2;30 a.m. The music is winding down, chairs are going up on tables, and the bartender pulls up the screen showing five open tabs. The customers had left without closing out, so she shrugs, turns the tablet toward the camera, and says, “If you walk out, I’m adding 20%,” before entering the tips herself. Now, the video is circulating online, and people are split. Some say she earned it for dealing with a packed bar all night. Others say adding her own tip without consent is crossing the line. I get the frustration, serving all night and then chasing down unpaid tabs is exhausting. But transparency matters. Clear signage or an automatic gratuity policy posted in advance would protect both the staff and the customers. What do you think? If customers leave without closing their tabs, is it fair game for the bartender to add a standard 20% tip, or should there be a different policy in place?

@arielhelwani No one cares Ariel

Damn. It’s real. Great promo.

@darrenrovell @LoganPaul I’m sure this will go well

JUST IN: @LoganPaul announces new breaking company called RipIt.

@WaxMetrix Seems like a bad investment for a ton of bulkage.

2026 Topps Series 1 Jumbo & Hobby cases available right this second on Topps website. I just ordered a case of jumbo. It said out of stock in the cart, but checked out anyway without issue.

@SleeperHeat @WindhorstESPN @basketbllnews They’ve had an offer the Bucks could take for weeks lol it’s meaningless.

The Heat reportedly have an offer the Bucks could take if Giannis Antetokounmpo is moved before the deadline “Miami’s offer has young players and a couple of draft picks in it… they could take that offer. Especially if Giannis wants to do it.“ (per @WindhorstESPN)

@Dexerto Poor guy lol, he’s an employee do you expect to own the company?

Former Linus Tech Tips employee Jake Tivy said he left due to stagnant pay and feeling undervalued "You kind of start thinking while you're working on your boss's third house, if you're ever going to be able to buy a house"