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Placeholder image policy
The archive still uses placeholder art when an exact public reference scan has not been matched cleanly to the checklist entry.
2008-09
Prime helps show that 2008-09 is not overwhelmingly autograph-driven. LeBron's card gives the relic-only side of the set a meaningful star anchor inside a broad 60-card branch.
| Year | 2008-09 |
|---|---|
| Set | Upper Deck Exquisite Collection Basketball |
| Subset | Prime |
| Insert family | Prime Relics |
| Card number | #PRM-LJ |
| Players | LeBron James |
| Teams | Cleveland Cavaliers |
| Rookie | No |
| Autograph | No |
| Memorabilia | Yes |
| Serial numbering | /50 |
| Appearance kind | solo |
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LeBron's /23 Scripted Swatch is one of the strongest links between 2008 and the earlier Exquisite premium insert vocabulary. It shows the late-run set still investing in elegant autograph-memorabilia concepts rather than leaning only on rookies and logomans.
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2008-09
The archive uses LeBron's 2008 base card as one of the clearest proofs that late-run Exquisite still treated even its veteran shell as a premium object. Cardboard Connection's product prose says the base is /225, but the detailed checklist section shows the actual base numbering as /125, which is the figure preserved here.
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LeBron's Player Box Auto Patch is one of the best windows into the one-player-per-box concept that makes 2008 so distinctive. It gives the year a curated single-star identity rather than just another checklist branch.
