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Trios

Exquisite Trios

What Defines The Family

A three-player memorabilia family that pushes middle-run Exquisite further into curated group compositions.

Why Collectors Care

The best Trios cards feel like mini exhibit pieces because the player mix is often the real hook, not just the relic material.

TriosTrios Gold
Represented years2006-07, 2008-09
Mapped cards154
Checklist forms2
Primary card typeMemorabilia and Patch Relics

Year appearances

2006-07

The 2006 release adds a dedicated three-player memorabilia branch plus a gold counterpart, another clue that the set's showcase-card architecture is wider than quick summaries suggest.

40 mapped cards

Trios / Trios Gold

2008-09

The 75-card 2008 Trio Patch branch gives the late-run release a surprisingly broad three-player memorabilia lane. The year is not short on big themes: Jordan-LeBron-Kobe, rookie combinations, and cross-era star groupings all live here.

25 mapped cards

Trio Patch /10

Related years

2006-07

2006-07 Exquisite Collection Basketball

Collectors tend to arrive for Brandon Roy, LaMarcus Aldridge, or Rajon Rondo, then stay for the deeper structure. Once the full 2006 checklist is mapped, the year stops feeling like a polite middle chapter and starts reading like a mature Exquisite release with real depth: base and rookie parallels, large Number Pieces and Scripted Swatches runs, 60-card Noble Nameplates and Dual Logoman branches, and a serious Jordan-LeBron premium layer across Dual Enshrinements, Number Pieces Dual, Scripted Swatches Dual, Dual Logoman Autographs, and triple-player showcase cards.

Mature mid-run architecture

2008-09

2008-09 Exquisite Collection Basketball

Derrick Rose is the headline, but the set matters because it combines a major rookie class with a very mature premium vocabulary. Russell Westbrook, Kevin Love, O.J. Mayo, Michael Beasley, and Eric Gordon all sit inside the rookie spine, while the insert stack branches into Limited Logos, Limited Throwback Logos, Nameplates, Emblems, Enshrinements, Scripted Swatches, player-box variants, one-of-one dual logos, triple auto jerseys, and the Jordan-LeBron-Kobe style top-end showcase layer. Cardboard Connection's Exquisite rookie ranking places Rose at #10 and Westbrook at #6 all time, which is a strong signal that 2008 is more than a transitional season.

Rose-era late-run peak

Related players

Player

LeBron James

LeBron James anchors the archive's debut-year story and remains a through-line for premium Exquisite inserts across the run, from the 2003 rookie patch autograph to later-year benchmark families like Limited Logos, Noble Nameplates, Emblems, Numbers, Scripted Swatches Dual, and several Jordan pairing grails.

19 cards

Player

Kobe Bryant

Kobe Bryant is tracked across 62 source-backed 2007-08 cards, showing how the Durant-era release spreads rookie coverage far beyond a single headline card.

16 cards

Player

Kevin Garnett

Kevin Garnett is tracked across 57 source-backed 2007-08 cards, showing how the Durant-era release spreads rookie coverage far beyond a single headline card.

14 cards

Player

Magic Johnson

Magic Johnson is tracked across 33 source-backed 2007-08 cards, giving the archive a checklist-backed view of the year's broader insert architecture.

12 cards

Player

Tim Duncan

Tim Duncan is tracked across 18 source-backed 2007-08 cards, giving the archive a checklist-backed view of the year's broader insert architecture.

10 cards

Player

Larry Bird

Larry Bird is tracked across 26 source-backed 2007-08 cards, showing how the Durant-era release spreads rookie coverage far beyond a single headline card.

8 cards

Player

Michael Jordan

Michael Jordan functions as a north-star insert benchmark throughout the Exquisite run, especially in debut-year Limited Logos, later cross-era grails, and the 2006-07 prestige layer of Limited Logos, Dual Enshrinements, Numbers Dual, Exclusives Autographs Dual, Dual Logoman Autographs, and curated showcase cards.

8 cards

Player

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is tracked across 21 source-backed 2007-08 cards, giving the archive a checklist-backed view of the year's broader insert architecture.

8 cards

Player

Brandon Roy

Brandon Roy is one of the six /99 Exquisite Rookies that give 2006-07 its real premium rookie ceiling. His all-time Exquisite rookie ranking also helps explain why seasoned collectors still return to this class even though it sits between louder headline years.

8 cards

Player

Vince Carter

Vince Carter is tracked across 39 source-backed 2007-08 cards, showing how the Durant-era release spreads rookie coverage far beyond a single headline card.

8 cards

Player

Chris Paul

Chris Paul is the defining rookie anchor of 2005-06 Exquisite. His /99 rookie patch autograph is the card that keeps the release firmly relevant in high-end collector conversations, and the full checklist shows that his presence extends beyond the flagship rookie lane into deeper prestige insert branches like Emblems of Endorsement.

8 cards

Player

Julius Erving

Julius Erving is tracked across 22 source-backed 2007-08 cards, giving the archive a checklist-backed view of the year's broader insert architecture.

7 cards

Cards on site

Showing 12 of 154 cards currently tied to this family.

Placeholder illustration for a dual-player Exquisite card frame.

Local placeholder art. Not an actual card image.

Listed on the linked TCDB checklist entry for the Trios branch. Trios expands the 2006 multi-player browsing experience beyond Foursomes and logomans into a more curated three-player lane. Source note: Three-player memorabilia insert.

Exquisite TriosMemorabilia and Patch Relics/10Ray AllenRashard LewisLuke Ridnour
Placeholder illustration for a dual-player Exquisite card frame.

Local placeholder art. Not an actual card image.

Listed on the linked TCDB checklist entry for the Trios branch. Trios expands the 2006 multi-player browsing experience beyond Foursomes and logomans into a more curated three-player lane. Source note: Three-player memorabilia insert.

Exquisite TriosMemorabilia and Patch Relics/10Ron ArtestKevin MartinMike Bibby
Placeholder illustration for a dual-player Exquisite card frame.

Local placeholder art. Not an actual card image.

Listed on the linked TCDB checklist entry for the Trios branch. Trios expands the 2006 multi-player browsing experience beyond Foursomes and logomans into a more curated three-player lane. Source note: Three-player memorabilia insert.

Exquisite TriosMemorabilia and Patch Relics/10Andrew BogutDavid NoelMichael Redd
Placeholder illustration for a dual-player Exquisite card frame.

Local placeholder art. Not an actual card image.

Listed on the linked TCDB checklist entry for the Trios branch. Trios expands the 2006 multi-player browsing experience beyond Foursomes and logomans into a more curated three-player lane. Source note: Three-player memorabilia insert.

Exquisite TriosMemorabilia and Patch Relics/10Tim DuncanManu GinobiliTony Parker
Placeholder illustration for a dual-player Exquisite card frame.

Local placeholder art. Not an actual card image.

Listed on the linked TCDB checklist entry for the Trios branch. Trios expands the 2006 multi-player browsing experience beyond Foursomes and logomans into a more curated three-player lane. Source note: Three-player memorabilia insert.

Exquisite TriosMemorabilia and Patch Relics/10Baron DavisJason RichardsonChris Mullin
Placeholder illustration for a dual-player Exquisite card frame.

Local placeholder art. Not an actual card image.

Listed on the linked TCDB checklist entry for the Trios branch. Trios expands the 2006 multi-player browsing experience beyond Foursomes and logomans into a more curated three-player lane. Source note: Three-player memorabilia insert.

Exquisite TriosMemorabilia and Patch Relics/10Julius ErvingMagic JohnsonLarry Bird
Placeholder illustration for a dual-player Exquisite card frame.

Local placeholder art. Not an actual card image.

Listed on the linked TCDB checklist entry for the Trios branch. Trios expands the 2006 multi-player browsing experience beyond Foursomes and logomans into a more curated three-player lane. Source note: Three-player memorabilia insert.

Exquisite TriosMemorabilia and Patch Relics/10Kevin GarnettCraig SmithRashad McCants
Placeholder illustration for a dual-player Exquisite card frame.

Local placeholder art. Not an actual card image.

Listed on the linked TCDB checklist entry for the Trios branch. Trios expands the 2006 multi-player browsing experience beyond Foursomes and logomans into a more curated three-player lane. Source note: Three-player memorabilia insert.

Exquisite TriosMemorabilia and Patch Relics/10Grant HillJameer NelsonJ.J. Redick
Placeholder illustration for a dual-player Exquisite card frame.

Local placeholder art. Not an actual card image.

Listed on the linked TCDB checklist entry for the Trios branch. Trios expands the 2006 multi-player browsing experience beyond Foursomes and logomans into a more curated three-player lane. Source note: Three-player memorabilia insert.

Exquisite TriosMemorabilia and Patch Relics/10Andre IguodalaRodney CarneyBobby Jones
Placeholder illustration for a dual-player Exquisite card frame.

Local placeholder art. Not an actual card image.

Listed on the linked TCDB checklist entry for the Trios branch. Trios expands the 2006 multi-player browsing experience beyond Foursomes and logomans into a more curated three-player lane. Source note: Three-player memorabilia insert.

Exquisite TriosMemorabilia and Patch Relics/10Antawn JamisonCaron ButlerGilbert Arenas
Placeholder illustration for a dual-player Exquisite card frame.

Local placeholder art. Not an actual card image.

Listed on the linked TCDB checklist entry for the Trios branch. Trios expands the 2006 multi-player browsing experience beyond Foursomes and logomans into a more curated three-player lane. Source note: Three-player memorabilia insert.

Exquisite TriosMemorabilia and Patch Relics/10LeBron JamesShannon BrownDaniel Gibson
Placeholder illustration for a dual-player Exquisite card frame.

Local placeholder art. Not an actual card image.

Listed on the linked TCDB checklist entry for the Trios branch. Trios expands the 2006 multi-player browsing experience beyond Foursomes and logomans into a more curated three-player lane. Source note: Three-player memorabilia insert.

Exquisite TriosMemorabilia and Patch Relics/10LeBron JamesZydrunas IlgauskasLarry Hughes