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2025-26 Topps Chrome Basketball
2025-26 Topps Chrome Basketball by the numbers: what a box holds, the odds of every hit, estimated print run, card values and what break spots cost.
- Released December 18, 2025
- 20 packs per box, 12 boxes per case
- 1.00 autographs per box
- 299-card base set
- Sealed hobby box: about $899
- All team spots in a case break: about $7,045
Questions
What comes in a 2025-26 Topps Chrome Basketball hobby box?
20 packs per box and 12 boxes per case. From the manufacturer's odds a box averages 1.00 autographs and 12.2 inserts. About 3.0 of the cards are serial numbered.
How much is a 2025-26 Topps Chrome Basketball hobby box?
About $899 as of October 11, 2026. That is the middle price of sealed boxes sold on eBay in the last 45 days; shops ask from $1,199. Prices are before shipping and tax.
Is a 2025-26 Topps Chrome Basketball hobby box worth opening?
For the cards alone, usually not. A typical box holds about $126 of cards against a price of about $899, which is about 14¢ for every $1. The average box is higher, about $276, because a few rare pulls carry it. Eight boxes in ten hold between $69 and $438. These are estimates from sold prices and a model.
What are the odds of a rare autograph in 2025-26 Topps Chrome Basketball?
In one hobby box, the chance of an autograph numbered to 25 or fewer is about 4%, and to 50 or fewer about 8%. Any one-of-one card is about 0.3%, or 1 in 322 boxes. Odds are the manufacturer's.
What are the odds of pulling a Dylan Harper autograph in 2025-26 Topps Chrome Basketball?
Any autograph of Dylan Harper is about 1 in 51 boxes in hobby. For comparison: Kon Knueppel, 1 in 51 boxes; Ace Bailey, 1 in 51 boxes; Cooper Flagg, 1 in 59 boxes; Victor Wembanyama, 1 in 164 boxes.
How much does a 2025-26 Topps Chrome Basketball case break cost?
All 30 team spots in a 12-box pick-your-team case break add up to about $7,045 as of October 11, 2026. No shop has this break open now, so these are the last listed prices, from December 2025. The most expensive spots are Dallas Mavericks ($1,135), San Antonio Spurs ($767), Los Angeles Lakers ($667); the cheapest are Sacramento Kings ($32), Chicago Bulls ($60), Phoenix Suns ($62).
Which 2025-26 Topps Chrome Basketball team spots are the best value?
By estimated card value for every $1 of spot price: Phoenix Suns ($1.08), Minnesota Timberwolves ($1.01), Dallas Mavericks (84¢). Across all teams a typical spot's cards are worth about 20¢ per $1 paid; the average is 47¢, because a few very rare cards carry it. These are estimates, good to about ±30% per team.
What's in the product
| Set | Type | Cards | Per box |
|---|---|---|---|
| Topps Chrome Autographs Rookies | auto | 40 | 0.38 |
| Topps Autograph Issue Rookies | auto | 55 | 0.14 |
| Next Stop Signatures | auto | 30 | 0.14 |
| Topps Chrome Autographs | auto | 24 | 0.03 |
| Sky Write Signatures | auto | 33 | 0.16 |
| Signature Style | auto | 37 | 0.14 |
| Future Stars Autographs | auto | 30 | 0.00 |
| Chromographs Rookie | auto | 20 | 0.00 |
| Stratospheric Signatures Rookies | auto | 25 | 0.00 |
| Topps Autograph Issue | auto | 38 | 0.00 |
| Chromographs | auto | 28 | 0.00 |
| Stratospheric Signatures | auto | 23 | 0.00 |
| Youthquake | insert | 15 | 0.78 |
| Sleek Finishers | insert | 30 | 1.62 |
| Destiny | insert | 25 | 1.33 |
| Instinct | insert | 20 | 1.03 |
| Voices | insert | 10 | 0.52 |
| Loading | insert | 15 | 1.01 |
| Generation Rising | insert | 20 | 1.36 |
| Tall Tales | insert | 25 | 1.66 |
| Clutch Gene | insert | 30 | 2.10 |
| Xs And Whoas | insert | 10 | 0.67 |
| Rock Stars | insert | 20 | 0.07 |
| Lets Go | insert | 15 | 0.00 |
| Ultra Violet | insert | 15 | 0.01 |
| Radiating Rookies | insert | 10 | 0.01 |
| Helix | insert | 20 | 0.01 |
| Sapphire Selections | insert | 20 | 0.00 |
| Go Time | insert | 25 | 0.00 |
| Ball Of Duty | insert | 25 | 0.00 |
| Inspirational | insert | 20 | 0.00 |
| Activators | insert | 15 | 0.00 |
| Serenity | insert | 15 | 0.00 |
| Advisory | insert | 20 | 0.00 |
| Glass Canvas | insert | 20 | 0.00 |
| Paradox | insert | 30 | 0.00 |
| Patented | insert | 30 | 0.00 |
| Fanatical | insert | 25 | 0.00 |
| Finals | insert | 10 | 0.00 |
| Base Cards | base | 299 | 14.94 |
Numbers as of October 11, 2026. Prices are what breakers list; values are estimates from sold prices and a tier and rarity model.
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