{"product_id":"graded-2024-panini-select-wnba-caitlin-clark-72-rookie-rc-basketball-card-psa-10-gem-mint","title":"Graded 2024 Panini Select WNBA Caitlin Clark #72 Rookie RC Basketball Card PSA 10 Gem Mint","description":"\u003cp\u003e🏀 \u003cstrong\u003eVintage Graded 2024 Panini Select WNBA Caitlin Clark #72 Rookie RC Basketball Card PSA 10 Gem Mint – The Select Rookie Card of the Player Who Became the All-Time Leading Scorer in NCAA Division I Basketball History, the Most Anticipated WNBA Arrival in the Modern History of the League, and the Player Who Transformed Women's Basketball Viewership and Attendance in a Rookie Season That the Sport Will Be Measuring Against for Years to Come, Graded PSA 10 GEM MINT\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏀 The Panini Select brand is one of the premium basketball card products in the hobby, recognized for its tiered parallel system, its clean design language, and the consistent quality that has made it a flagship Panini basketball line for collectors who want a premium Rookie Card in a format with established collector demand. The 2024 Panini Select WNBA edition documented the class of players who arrived in the women's professional league with the 2024 Draft, and the first pick of that draft – the player the Indiana Fever selected with the most anticipated first-overall selection in the history of the women's draft – is the subject of card #72 in this set. Caitlin Clark's Rookie Card in the Select format, graded PSA 10 GEM MINT, is the top-condition document of a player the basketball world was watching before she had played a single WNBA minute.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏀 Caitlin Clark was born January 22, 2002, in West Des Moines, Iowa, and attended the University of Iowa, where she built one of the most celebrated careers in the history of college basketball in four seasons as a Hawkeye. From her freshman year, she was scoring at volumes that made the statistical leaderboard look different, and the range she operated from – pulling up from distances that the professional game had only recently begun to normalize as part of the offensive vocabulary – made her games events that the sports media covered with a level of attention usually reserved for men's programs with national championship histories. She brought the University of Iowa women's basketball program to a level of national attention it had never previously reached, and the audiences she drew to Carver-Hawkeye Arena and to television sets across the country built the momentum that her professional arrival would later amplify.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏀 Clark's college career culminated in back-to-back appearances in the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament National Championship game – losing to the LSU Tigers in 2023 and to the South Carolina Gamecocks in 2024 – and in a scoring total that the record books had not seen before. She finished her career at Iowa as the all-time leading scorer in NCAA Division I basketball history across both men's and women's programs, with 3,951 career points, surpassing a record that the sport had held for decades. The points record, the back-to-back Final appearances, the Naismith Player of the Year recognition, and the full weight of everything she had done at Iowa followed her into Indianapolis when the Fever made her the first overall pick in the 2024 WNBA Draft.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏅 PSA 10 GEM MINT is the highest grade Professional Sports Authenticator issues – four sharp corners, perfect centering, a surface free of any imperfections visible under professional examination. On a 2024 Panini Select WNBA card for the most-watched WNBA Rookie since the league was founded, the PSA 10 designation positions this piece at the top of the condition hierarchy for one of the most culturally significant basketball cards produced in recent years. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏀 Caitlin Clark. West Des Moines, Iowa. University of Iowa. Indiana Fever. 2024 WNBA Draft #1 Overall Pick. All-Time NCAA Division I Scoring Leader (3,951 Points). 2024 WNBA Rookie of the Year. 2024 Panini Select WNBA #72 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":48039608254696,"sku":"2024-PS-CC-72-PSA-10","price":199.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/2718\/4037\/files\/graded-2024-panini-select-wnba-caitlin-clark-72-rookie-rc-basketball-card-psa-10-gem-871.webp?v=1770238221","url":"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/graded-2024-panini-select-wnba-caitlin-clark-72-rookie-rc-basketball-card-psa-10-gem-mint","provider":"Vintage and Antique Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}