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The archive still uses placeholder art when an exact public reference scan has not been matched cleanly to the checklist entry.
2006-07
Roy's Noble Nameplates card helps show that the 2006 rookie class does not live only in the Exquisite Rookies subset. The year gives its headliners room inside the broader premium insert vocabulary too, which is exactly the kind of structural depth a real encyclopedia should surface.
| Year | 2006-07 |
|---|---|
| Set | Upper Deck Exquisite Collection Basketball |
| Subset | Noble Nameplates |
| Insert family | Noble Nameplates |
| Card number | #NN-BR |
| Players | Brandon Roy |
| Teams | Portland Trail Blazers |
| Rookie | No |
| Autograph | Yes |
| Memorabilia | Yes |
| Serial numbering | /25 |
| Appearance kind | solo |
Project source notes
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Roy sits in the six-card /99 rookie summit and gives 2006-07 much of its immediate star power. Cardboard Connection's all-time Exquisite rookie ranking places him at #11, which helps explain why seasoned collectors do not treat this year as a dead zone between stronger headline classes.
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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.
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Jordan's 2006 Limited Logos is a strong reminder that the mid-run Exquisite years never abandoned their classic premium patch-auto grammar. Once the family reached a 42-card /50 structure, it became part of the release's default luxury language rather than a special one-year novelty.
