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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.
2008-09
Rose's #92 /99 is the headline card of 2008-09 Exquisite and the clearest reason the release still carries real late-run gravity. The broader checklist matters too, but this is the card that makes the year's rookie story immediately legible to serious collectors.
| Year | 2008-09 |
|---|---|
| Set | Upper Deck Exquisite Collection Basketball |
| Subset | Rookie Auto Patch |
| Insert family | Rookie Patch Autographs |
| Card number | #92 |
| Players | Derrick Rose |
| Teams | Chicago Bulls |
| Rookie | Yes |
| Autograph | Yes |
| Memorabilia | Yes |
| Serial numbering | /99 |
| Appearance kind | solo |
Project source notes
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Westbrook's #93 /225 is one of the strongest arguments for treating 2008 as more than a Rose-only year. Cardboard Connection ranks it sixth among Exquisite basketball rookies, which gives the set a serious second flagship in collector terms.
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O.J. Mayo sits inside the 2008 /99 summit, and that detail matters because it helps the archive present the year as a real multi-pillar rookie class instead of a one-card Rose set.
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Year One Autographs is one of the best examples of 2008's extra rookie depth. Rose's /10 card shows the set giving its flagship rookie a second true premium-autograph checkpoint outside the core #92 RPA.
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TCDB documents Durant at card #94 in the four-card /99 summit of the 2007 rookie autograph-memorabilia structure. That matters because it gives the late-run set a true flagship rather than a generic star rookie, and Cardboard Connection's all-time Exquisite rookie ranking puts the card at #2 overall.
