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Dan Hajducky
New York Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns, eighth on the NBA’s player efficiency rating leaderboard for 2025-26, is collecting wins off the court, too. In October, Towns pulled a one-of-one Yoshinobu Yamamoto-signed MLB logo card from the 2024 Topps Inception set, and it just sold for $72,000 with buyer’s premium via Fanatics Collect.
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Towns recently started an Instagram account dedicated to collecting, where he films himself opening card packs across a variety of sports. More colloquially, in the collectibles space, people who stream their card and memorabilia openings are called «breakers.»
Charlotte Hornets forward Grant Williams — another athlete-turned-breaker — said in a video that with the way Yamamoto performed in the World Series, the Los Angeles Dodgers should give the pitcher «another $300 million.»
