Local placeholder art. Not an actual card image.
Placeholder image policy
The archive still uses placeholder art when an exact public reference scan has not been matched cleanly to the checklist entry.
2005-06
LeBron's 2005 Numbers card is a perfect example of Exquisite using jersey digits themselves as design language. It is one of the strongest cross-year family anchors in the archive because it shows how the number-piece idea stays collectible even when the rookie class is no longer the whole story.
| Year | 2005-06 |
|---|---|
| Set | Upper Deck Exquisite Collection Basketball |
| Subset | Numbers |
| Insert family | Number Pieces and Numbers |
| Card number | #EN-LJ |
| Players | LeBron James |
| Teams | Cleveland Cavaliers |
| Rookie | No |
| Autograph | No |
| Memorabilia | Yes |
| Serial numbering | /23 |
| Appearance kind | solo |
Project source notes
Source references
Exact public reference scan matched to this specific 2003 card from a Google-surfaced card page. External image remains hosted by the source.
A debut-year Number Pieces sample. Tying the print run to LeBron's jersey number is part of what made early Exquisite feel so specific, deliberate, and collectible.
Local placeholder art. Not an actual card image.
Number Pieces is one of the best expressions of Exquisite's collector-minded design language, and LeBron's /23 example makes that idea especially legible. The card is important not only because of the player, but because it shows how the sophomore set kept turning serial numbering itself into part of the storytelling.
Local placeholder art. Not an actual card image.
The 2005 source page uses the spaced Name Plates wording, but this card sits squarely in the Noble Nameplates lineage collectors track across the run. LeBron's inclusion makes the family especially useful for showing that 2005 retained strong visual and conceptual continuity with the brand's earlier premium insert identity.
