🏀 Graded 2016-17 Panini Prizm Ben Simmons #1 Rookie RC Basketball Card PSA 10 Gem Mint — The Perfect-Grade Panini Prizm Rookie Card of the Philadelphia 76ers' 2016 First Overall Draft Pick From Melbourne, Australia, an LSU Tiger Whose Unprecedented Physical Profile at the Point Forward Position Created One of the Most Discussed Rookie Seasons in Modern NBA History, Certified PSA 10 GEM MINT

🏀 The 2016-17 Panini Prizm Ben Simmons #1 PSA 10 GEM MINT is the condition-perfect, professionally graded Panini Prizm rookie card of the Philadelphia 76ers' 6-foot-10 point forward whose physical dimensions, passing vision, and defensive range at the position created a profile that NBA evaluators and basketball card collectors had rarely encountered from a player who ran his team's offense from the point guard position — a player whose arrival in Philadelphia generated the kind of excitement that accompanies a first overall draft selection arriving in a city that had been waiting through multiple rebuilding seasons for the talent that could anchor its competitive return. PSA 10 GEM MINT on the 2016-17 Panini Prizm base rookie demands four perfectly sharp corners, surfaces completely free of any print defect or handling mark, centering within PSA's tightest parameters, and the premium eye appeal that earns the hobby's highest grade — on Prizm's silver chromium base, where the prismatic refractor surface amplifies the visual examination that separates PSA 10 examples from the rest of the graded population.

🏀 The 2016-17 Panini Prizm set holds one of the most significant positions in the basketball card category's recent history — a release whose rookie class includes some of the decade's most discussed first-year players and whose PSA 10 Prizm base rookie cards have established themselves as the definitive condition-standard documentation for the players featured in the set. Card #1 in the 2016-17 Panini Prizm set reflects Simmons's placement at the front of the release — the #1 position in a Prizm set that collectors and investors who track modern basketball card releases recognize as the card that opens the numbered sequence of one of the hobby's premier annual basketball releases. Prizm rookies in PSA 10 GEM MINT represent the top-tier condition fraction of the graded population and are the reference-standard format for collectors of the players featured in each year's Prizm basketball release.

🏀 Ben Simmons was born July 20, 1996, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia — the coastal city on Port Phillip Bay in southeastern Australia, the country's second-largest city and the capital of Victoria, whose sports culture is dominated by Australian rules football but which has also produced international basketball talent through the club and representative programs that have sent Australian players to every major basketball league on every continent. Simmons grew up in a basketball family — his father David Simmons played professionally in Australia and coached — and his development through the Australian basketball system before arriving in the United States for his college career at Louisiana State University brought him to Baton Rouge and the SEC basketball environment where his combination of size, skill, and basketball intellect produced the performance that made him the consensus #1 overall selection in the 2016 NBA Draft. The Philadelphia 76ers' selection of Simmons first overall placed him in the City of Brotherly Love at the center of the organizational rebuild that the 76ers had undertaken, and his rookie season — delayed a full year by an injury — arrived with the kind of anticipation that only a first overall pick in the league's largest market can generate. Condition: NOS.

🏀 Ben Simmons. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Louisiana State University LSU Tigers. Philadelphia 76ers. 2016 NBA Draft, 1st Overall. Point Forward. 2016-17 Panini Prizm. Card #1. Rookie RC. PSA 10 GEM MINT. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. Condition: NOS.