🏀 Graded 2003-04 Upper Deck LeBron James #17 Box Set Rookie RC Basketball Card PSA 10 Gem Mint – A PSA 10 Gem Mint Certified 2003-04 Upper Deck Box Set Rookie Card of the Player Who Became the All-Time Leading Scorer in NBA History, Won Four NBA Championships, and Was Called “The Chosen One” by Sports Illustrated While Still in High School in Akron, Ohio – Graded PSA 10 Gem Mint

🏀 The February 2002 cover of Sports Illustrated showed a seventeen-year-old from St. Vincent–St. Mary High School in Akron, Ohio, wearing a basketball jersey and carrying the headline “The Chosen One.” LeBron James had not yet played a game of professional basketball, had not yet been drafted, had not yet signed a rookie contract or stepped onto an NBA floor. He was still completing his junior year of high school. The Sports Illustrated designation was not hyperbole – it was the result of watching a 6'8” guard's body playing point guard basketball at a level of sophistication that the evaluation community had not encountered from a player of that age in modern memory. Grown men who had spent careers assessing professional talent were watching high school games in Akron and describing what they were seeing in language that the sport usually reserves for established stars rather than teenagers. The Cleveland Cavaliers selected him first overall in the 2003 NBA Draft, and LeBron James averaged 20.9 points, 5.5 rebounds, and 5.9 assists in his rookie season – numbers that positioned him immediately as a player whose talent was functioning at a level that the development curve most rookies experience was simply not going to apply to. This 2003-04 Upper Deck Box Set Rookie Card at #17, graded PSA 10 Gem Mint, is a certified document from that first season. Condition: NOS.

🏀 What followed the rookie season built one of the most complete careers in the history of professional team sport. Four NBA Championships: with the Miami Heat in 2012 and 2013, with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016 – a championship that ended Cleveland's 52-year major professional sports drought by coming back from 3–1 down against the Golden State Warriors – and with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2020. Four NBA Most Valuable Player Awards. Multiple scoring titles. And on February 7, 2023, in Sacramento, California, LeBron James scored the basket that surpassed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's all-time NBA scoring record of 38,387 points, a record that had stood since 1984. He continued past 40,000 career points in 2024, becoming the first player in NBA history to reach that total. The 2003-04 Upper Deck Box Set rookie card at #17 and PSA 10 Gem Mint is the certified beginning of that record. Condition: NOS.

🏀 PSA grades every submitted card on a scale through 10, with Gem Mint representing the highest tier available – a card free of any surface wear, centering imperfection, or corner deterioration. On a LeBron James 2003-04 rookie card, the PSA 10 designation places this copy among the most desirable examples of any LeBron James RC in the hobby. Condition: NOS.

⭐ 2003-04 Upper Deck. LeBron James. #17. Box Set Rookie RC. PSA 10 Gem Mint. 4x NBA Champion. All-Time NBA Scoring Leader. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. Condition: NOS.