{"product_id":"graded-2023-topps-now-angel-reese-589-rookie-rc-basketball-card-psa-10-gem-mint","title":"Graded 2023 Topps Now Angel Reese #589 Rookie RC Basketball Card PSA 10 Gem Mint","description":"\u003cp\u003e🏀 \u003cstrong\u003eGraded 2023 Topps Now Angel Reese #589 Rookie RC Basketball Card PSA 10 Gem Mint — A Perfect-Grade Topps Now Rookie Card for the LSU National Champion Who Became the Face of Women's Basketball's Most Visible Season in History, the Randallstown, Maryland Native Whose Rebounding, Toughness, and Unapologetic Personality Made Her One of the Most Talked-About Athletes in the Country\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏀 The 2023 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament was the most watched women's college basketball event in the history of the sport, and Angel Reese was one of the primary reasons why. She was born on May 6, 2002, in Randallstown, Maryland, and arrived at LSU as one of the most decorated high school recruits in the country before head coach Kim Mulkey built the Tigers into the championship program that her talents deserved. What happened in 2023 — the national championship run that ended with LSU defeating Iowa in the final game — placed Reese at the center of a cultural moment in women's basketball that the sport had been building toward for years and that the 2023 tournament delivered with a completeness and an audience that exceeded anything the previous iterations of the event had produced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏀 Reese's contribution to that championship run was visible in every game she played: the rebounding that gives her team extra possessions that other teams do not get, the physical presence in the paint that changes what opposing defenses are willing to attempt, and the competitive energy that raises the level of intensity around her regardless of the situation or the opponent. She was named the Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four — an acknowledgment that the championship required not just the collective effort of the LSU roster but the specific, individual, irreplaceable contribution of the player wearing her number.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏀 The Chicago Sky selected her in the 2024 WNBA Draft, bringing her to one of the league's established markets and placing her professional development in an organizational context that the basketball world would watch from the opening day of the season. Her WNBA career carries with it the specific weight of the national attention that followed her from LSU — a platform built in the most-watched women's college basketball season in history, carrying forward into a professional career whose audiences are larger than the women's game has historically commanded, and that her profile specifically contributed to making larger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏀 \u003cstrong\u003e2023 Topps Now #589 Rookie RC — PSA 10 Gem Mint\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e📋 The 2023 Topps Now series captures moments and players in real time — an online-exclusive print-on-demand format whose production quantities reflect the demand at the moment of issue, creating cards whose print runs are defined by the market rather than by predetermined production limits. PSA 10 Gem Mint confirms four perfectly sharp corners, surfaces without print defect, edges without fraying, and centering within the tight parameters that define the top grade on PSA's scale. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏀 Angel Reese. Chicago Sky. LSU Tigers. Randallstown, Maryland. 2023 NCAA Women's Basketball National Champion. 2023 NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player. 2023 Topps Now #589 Rookie RC. PSA 10 Gem Mint. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48039518568680,"sku":"2023-TN-AR-589-PSA-10","price":148.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/2718\/4037\/files\/graded-2023-topps-angel-reese-589-rookie-rc-basketball-card-psa-10-gem-mint-vintage-930.webp?v=1770204763","url":"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/graded-2023-topps-now-angel-reese-589-rookie-rc-basketball-card-psa-10-gem-mint","provider":"Vintage and Antique Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}