{"title":"Derik Queen Rookie Cards","description":"\u003cp\u003eDerik Queen is a basketball prospect whose early rookie cards are being tracked across multiple 2024 and 2025 Topps releases. For collectors, rookie-year cards are the foundation of any player collection, and having options across several sets and parallels gives buyers a range of entry points into a young player's card history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection features Derik Queen rookie cards from 2024 Topps Bowman U Now, including a numbered Red Auto parallel, alongside 2025 issues such as Topps Bowman U Now March Madness, Topps Generation Now, 1980 Topps Basketball, Topps Now, and Topps Chrome Tall Tales. Several cards are PSA 10 Gem Mint graded, so buyers should note the specific set, card number, and grading status on each listing before comparing options.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"graded-2024-topps-bowman-u-now-derik-queen-98-rookie-rc-basketball-card-psa-10-gem-mint","title":"Graded PSA 10 Gem Mint Derik Queen 2024 Topps Bowman U Now #98 Rookie RC Basketball Card","description":"\u003cp\u003e🏀 \u003cstrong\u003eDerik Queen 2024 Topps Bowman U Now #98 Rookie RC Basketball Card — Graded PSA 10 Gem Mint — Baltimore, Maryland — University of Maryland — New Orleans Pelicans — Bowman University Now Real-Time Production — Professional Sports Authenticator Perfect Grade\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏀 The Bowman University Now format represents one of the most significant developments in the basketball card hobby in recent years — the application of the real-time production philosophy that Topps pioneered in baseball to the college basketball space, creating certified first-year cards for top prospects while they are still playing in the college game, documenting their college-era performances and appearances before the NBA Draft transforms their identity from prospect to professional. For collectors who want the earliest possible certified card for a top NBA prospect, the Bowman U Now card is that piece — produced while the player is still in college, carrying the imagery and the identity of the program they played for, and arriving in the market as the first certified collectible document of a career that the NBA Draft evaluation process has identified as one of its top priorities. Derik Queen's 2024 Topps Bowman U Now #98, graded PSA 10 Gem Mint, is the perfect-grade version of his Bowman U Now Rookie RC — the earliest certified card for a Baltimore-born big man who developed at the University of Maryland and arrived at the 2025 NBA Draft as one of the most coveted frontcourt prospects in his class. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🌟 \u003cstrong\u003eBaltimore, Maryland — A Hometown Story\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🌟 Derik Queen was born in Baltimore, Maryland — a city with a deep basketball culture, a tradition of producing professional talent, and the specific neighborhood character that Baltimore basketball shares with the city's identity as a place where athletic talent is not manufactured in AAU programs and private academies alone but is developed in the gyms and the playgrounds and the community spaces that give the city's best players their competitive edge. Baltimore has produced NBA talent throughout the sport's history, and the tradition of Maryland players developing locally before joining the Terrapins gave Queen the path from Baltimore to College Park that his basketball abilities deserved. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis basketball development in the Baltimore area produced the combination of size, skill, and basketball IQ that makes a frontcourt player projectable to the NBA level — the footwork around the basket, the ability to score in multiple ways in the post and at the elbow, the defensive positioning instincts, and the rebounding presence that teams at every level of the game identify as premium production. When the University of Maryland recruited him, they were investing in a player from their own backyard — a Baltimore-born big man who would develop under their program's coaching staff into the prospect that the 2025 NBA Draft would evaluate and select as a lottery-level talent. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏆 \u003cstrong\u003eUniversity of Maryland — The Hometown Program\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏆 The University of Maryland Terrapins play at Xfinity Center in College Park, less than an hour from Baltimore — close enough that Queen's family, his community, and the broader Baltimore basketball world could follow his development in real time and root for a player who was one of their own representing a program that is Maryland's flagship athletic institution. Playing at Maryland gave Queen the visibility in the Big Ten Conference — one of the most competitive and most watched conferences in college basketball — that his skills demanded as a vehicle for the national exposure and the draft evaluation process that would eventually lead to his NBA selection. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Big Ten configuration that Maryland has operated within since joining the conference in 2014 exposes the Terrapins to some of the most physically demanding frontcourt play in college basketball — the conference's emphasis on physical play and high-level athleticism at every position provides exactly the kind of competition that develops a frontcourt prospect into an NBA-ready contributor. Queen's performances against Big Ten competition built the body of work that NBA scouts traveled to see and that draft analysts converted into the projection that ultimately placed him among the most coveted available players in his draft class. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⭐ \u003cstrong\u003eNew Orleans Pelicans — A Draft-Night Trade Brings Him Home\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⭐ Derik Queen was selected 13th overall in the 2025 NBA Draft by the Atlanta Hawks, who immediately traded his draft rights to the New Orleans Pelicans as part of a draft-night deal. The move placed Queen alongside Zion Williamson in a Pelicans frontcourt being built around size and athleticism, giving the Baltimore product an immediate opportunity to contribute to a franchise investing significant draft capital in his upside. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏅 \u003cstrong\u003eBowman U Now #98 — The First Certified Card\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏅 The Topps Bowman University Now product produces cards in real time during the college basketball season — capturing game performances, season milestones, and significant moments from the college careers of the players who will populate the next NBA Draft class with certified cards available while the player is still playing in college. The #98 designation places Queen at card 98 in the Bowman U Now production series — his specific number within the format that was his first appearance in the Topps certified card universe. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt PSA 10 Gem Mint, this card represents the perfect-grade version of Queen's first certified card — the earliest-dated, highest-graded version of the first professional collectible document in his name. For collectors building a Derik Queen collection from its earliest possible entry point, the PSA 10 Bowman U Now #98 is not just the first card — it is the perfect first card, the version that sets the condition standard for everything that follows. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏀⭐ Derik Queen. Baltimore, Maryland. University of Maryland. New Orleans Pelicans. The hometown big man who went from College Park to a draft-night trade into the Pelicans frontcourt. 2024 Topps Bowman U Now #98. PSA 10 Gem Mint. The first card. The perfect grade. Ready for your collection. 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That is the total existence of the 2024 Topps Bowman U Now #98A Red Auto Derik Queen card — a numbered autograph parallel within Bowman U Now's product hierarchy, limited to \/10, signed in-hand by one of the most talked-about prospects in his draft class. The Bowman U Now format already operates on print-on-demand scarcity; the Red Auto \/10 is the rarest configuration within that format, combining the in-person autograph with the limited-number parallel to create a card that exists in genuinely minimal supply. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🔴🐢 \u003cstrong\u003eMaryland Terrapins — Xfinity Center and the Big Man Who Drew NBA Attention\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🔴🐢 Derik Queen developed at the University of Maryland into one of the most physical and skilled frontcourt players in the country — a forward whose combination of size, skill, and competitive drive generated consistent NBA Draft projection throughout his college career. Maryland's program has produced NBA talent for decades, and Queen's emergence placed him in the conversation as one of the program's most promising prospects in recent memory. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e✍️ \u003cstrong\u003eIn-Person Autograph on a \/10 Parallel — What Makes This Card Distinct\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e✍️ The 'Auto' designation on the Bowman U Now product confirms that Derik Queen signed this card in person during the card-production process — a certified on-card autograph that adds a direct connection between player and collector. Combined with the \/10 numbering that limits the print run to ten total copies, the Red Auto \/10 is the combination of scarcity and player signature that advanced collectors specifically pursue. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏀🌟 Derik Queen. 2024 Topps Bowman U Now #98A. Red Auto. \/10. Rookie RC. Maryland Terrapins. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. 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His decision was not based on limited options. Queen was identified as a top-tier national recruit whose skill set at the center position separated him from the standard group of physically gifted but developmentally raw freshmen who enter college basketball: the ability to score efficiently from multiple areas of the court, the rebounding instincts that come from positioning and anticipation rather than simply effort, and the passing vision that allows a modern center to function as an offensive hub rather than a terminus at the end of designed plays.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏀 Playing in the Big Ten — now one of the largest and most competitive conferences in college basketball after the major realignment that brought additional programs into the conference — Queen competed against defensive schemes and personnel that routinely produce NBA rotation players. The standard of competition that the Big Ten presents to its best individual players is the same standard that NBA scouting departments track when they evaluate college prospects against professional projection criteria: does this player perform against competition that will eventually be playing professional basketball? Queen's production in that environment provided affirmative answers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏀 \u003cstrong\u003eTopps Bowman U Now — NIL-Era March Madness\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e📦 The Name\/Image\/Likeness rule changes of 2021 made it possible for college athletes to receive compensation for commercial uses of their identity for the first time in NCAA history. Topps Bowman U Now is the card product Topps built specifically to issue officially licensed trading cards for college athletes under NIL rules — cards that would not have been possible before the rule change, that capture players in their college uniforms rather than requiring them to turn professional before their first official cards can exist. The March Madness subset positions Queen's card specifically within the NCAA tournament context — the most-watched and highest-stakes college basketball competition of the calendar year, the event that produces the individual moments that define how a player's college career is remembered. Card #8 is Queen's entry in the March Madness subset.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⭐ \u003cstrong\u003ePSA 10 Gem Mint\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⭐ Four perfectly sharp corners, full original gloss, no print defects, centering within PSA's strictest tolerances. This specific specimen of the 2025 Topps Bowman U Now Derik Queen #8 March Madness RC received PSA's highest grade, permanently certified and encased. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏀 Derik Queen. Maryland Terrapins. Baltimore. Big Ten. 2025 Topps Bowman U Now March Madness #8 Rookie RC. PSA 10 Gem Mint. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. 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It is a thematic framework that Topps has used across different sports to create a subset identity that is more than a random sample of prospects and rookies: it is an argument that these specific players belong in the same conversation, that their timing of entry makes them part of a cohort that the hobby should document together. Derik Queen's position in the subset at #GN13 places him in the center of that argument. 🌟\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏀 The 2025 NBA Draft class entered a league that had just seen Fanatics and Topps complete the transition from the Panini-exclusive era of NBA card licensing that had defined the market since 2009. The return of Topps to basketball created a moment in the hobby that collectors noted: new products, new designs, a different production aesthetic, and the first Topps-branded NBA rookie cards in over fifteen years available to a market that had grown significantly since Topps last produced basketball cards. For the 2025 Draft class, this transition means their rookie cards include Topps issues that are historically significant simply because of timing – the first generation of players to have Topps rookies in the new licensing era. ⭐\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏀 PSA 10 Gem Mint on a 2025 Topps insert confirms the card arrived in the hobby at the highest condition standard: centering, corners, edges, and surface all evaluated simultaneously and all meeting the strictest criteria. For a Generation Now insert – an exclusive subset that is not the base card – the PSA 10 is the collector's preferred version of a card that was never going to be common. 🏆\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏀 Derik Queen. 2025 NBA Draft. 2025 Topps Basketball. Generation Now Subset. Card #GN13. Exclusive Insert Format. Rookie RC. PSA 10 Gem Mint. Professional Sports Authenticator. Sports Memorabilia. Hall of Fame Sports. 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