Beckett Exclusive: Baseball Saves Basketball! Kevin Durant's First Certified Auto to

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The much anticipated debut of Kevin Durant will come a few months early for most basketball collectors. The future No. one or No. two overall pick in this month's NBA Draft will make his cardboard and certified autograph debut in 2007 Upper Deck Goudey Baseball.


The product, which is scheduled to debut in early August, will carry a suggested retail price of $4.99 for each eight card pack. Durant is scheduled to be one of 12 accomplished sports personalities to be included in the Sports Royalty box topper set. The Sports Royalty autographed parallel versions, while scare, will be hard signed and seeded randomly into packs.

Aside from the one signature and one memorabilia card per 24 pack box, the 200 card base set design will stay true to the landmark 1933 Goudey set, with all cards replicating its historic size. Additionally each 12 box case of Upper Deck Goudey will include one original Goudey, Diamond Stars or Double Play buyback card.