🏀 2022 Panini Select Jalen Williams #90 Tri Color Rookie RC Basketball Card — PSA 10 GEM MINT — The Perfectly Graded Tri Color Parallel Rookie Card of the Oklahoma City Thunder's Two-Time All-Star Who Has Become One of the NBA's Most Explosive Young Scorers Alongside Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Chet Holmgren on the League's Most Exciting Young Franchise

🏀 The Oklahoma City Thunder's front office under general manager Sam Presti built one of the most strategically deliberate team constructions in NBA history — accumulating draft capital, identifying and developing young talent, and assembling the pieces of what they believed would be a long-term championship contender rather than chasing short-term success through free agency or high-salary acquisitions. The 2022 NBA Draft represented one of the most critical single investments in that strategy: not just in the second overall pick that brought Chet Holmgren into the fold, but in the 12th overall selection that delivered Jalen Williams — a player that many scouts considered undervalued at his draft position and that the Thunder identified as a perfect fit for the kind of multi-dimensional, high-skill roster they were constructing around Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.

🏀 Williams was born on August 16, 2001, in Phoenix, Arizona — a desert city that has produced its share of NBA talent over the decades and that gave Williams the competitive environment to develop his game before taking it to Santa Clara University in the West Coast Conference. Santa Clara is not a program that typically produces top-12 NBA Draft picks; the Broncos compete in a mid-major conference best known nationally for the Gonzaga Bulldogs and their annual NCAA Tournament appearances. But Williams made Santa Clara's roster a destination worth watching, playing at a level so far above the WCC's average that scouts attending to evaluate the conference's top prospects came away with expanding projections for what he could do in the professional game. He earned the WCC Defensive Player of the Year award, confirming that his value was not merely offensive — that the defensive capabilities he brought to the court were equally legitimate reasons to value him as a prospect.

🏀 In Oklahoma City, Williams stepped into a role alongside SGA — one of the most skilled one-on-one scorers in the league — and the development that followed was among the fastest individual progressions in recent NBA memory. His first All-Star selection came in 2023, in just his second NBA season: a recognition from the broader basketball community that the skills Williams had demonstrated in the WCC and in his rookie year had translated to the highest level with essentially no adjustment period. His second All-Star appearance in 2024 confirmed the first as not a fluke but a reflection of the consistent offensive quality that the Thunder had identified in him from the draft. Williams's combination of pull-up shooting, off-ball movement, and secondary creation makes him the perfect complement to SGA's isolation scoring and Holmgren's floor-spacing at center — three different offensive skill sets that force defensive coaches to make impossible choices.

🏀 The 2022 Panini Select Tri Color parallel is one of the most visually distinctive and immediately recognizable variations in the Select rainbow. Where standard Select parallels offer a single color treatment to the card's chromium surface, the Tri Color parallel layers three separate colors in horizontal stripe bands across the card — creating a rainbow effect on the card surface itself that makes it one of the most spectacular display pieces in any basketball card collection. The visual impact of a Tri Color card in a slab or display case is immediately arresting: the three-color banding catches the light from different angles and gives the card a presence that standard parallels simply cannot replicate. Card #90 is Williams's position in the 2022 Panini Select checklist.

🏀 Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA) evaluated this card and awarded PSA 10 GEM MINT — the highest grade on PSA's scale, requiring four perfect corners, centering within the strictest tolerances, and a surface completely free of scratches, print defects, or creasing. A PSA 10 on a Tri Color parallel, where the multi-layer surface treatment can reveal handling marks that standard chromium cards might conceal, represents a particularly well-preserved example of one of the most sought-after visual parallels in the 2022 Select basketball set.

🏀 Condition: NOS.

🏀 Jalen Williams. Phoenix, Arizona. Santa Clara University Broncos. Oklahoma City Thunder Guard. 2022 NBA Draft 12th Overall. 2x NBA All-Star (2023, 2024). SGA's Perfect Running Mate. The OKC Thunder's Championship Core. 2022 Panini Select #90 Tri Color Rookie RC Basketball Card. PSA 10 GEM MINT. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. Condition: NOS.