The first rookie 1-of-1 for twenty legends arrives August 26, and it lands on the all-new Top Shot app.
LeBron James · Steph Curry · Tim Duncan · Paul Pierce · Ray Allen · Blake Griffin · and more
Rookie-season Moments with a full parallel stack from /149 down to a 1-of-1.
Every path into this drop starts with the Moments sitting in your collection right now. If you have been collecting Run It Back since 2020, your collection is your ticket. If you have been stacking LeBron or Steph or Durant for years, this is the week it pays off. If you have been holding and wondering whether anyone noticed — we noticed.
This drop was built for you.
THE ALL-NEW TOP SHOT
This is the first NBA drop on the all-new Top Shot mobile app, and Run It Back season starts here.
And this drop lands on a platform that changed underneath you this summer.
Every Moment on Top Shot — the video highlight, the thumbnail, the metadata — is now preserved on IPFS, a decentralized network. Because IPFS addresses a file by its own contents, anyone can pull any Moment through a public gateway or their own node and confirm it has not been altered. No account. No permission from us. Your whole catalog, every Edition ever minted, retroactively and going forward.
No grading company. No authentication fee. No thirty-day turnaround.
That is the standard now. Not "trust us." Check it yourself.
TWENTY ROOKIES. TWENTY FIRSTS.
Nobody in the building knew.
Not on the October night in 1997 when a quiet 21-year-old who had stayed all four years at Wake Forest played his first game in San Antonio. Not in Sacramento in 2003 when a 19-year-old from Akron walked into his first NBA game carrying more expectation than any rookie ever had. Not in 2009 when the seventh pick, the one everybody said was too small and too slight to hold up, played his first game in Oakland for a franchise that had won one playoff series in fifteen years.
The newest Run It Back: Origins produces the first rookie 1-of-1s from LeBron James & Steph Curry ever minted on Top Shot. Twenty total players, every edition numbered, and the 2026 Origins release stands on its own the way the 1986 Fleer Jordan stands on its own.
Run It Back: Origins Standard /149, Blockchain /99, Hardcourt /50, Hexwave /25, Jukebox /10, Galactic /5, Omega /1
Six of these were Rookie of the Year, four went first overall, and five are already enshrined in Springfield with two more walking in the moment they are eligible. Their rookie seasons run from 1981 to 2011 - thirty years of NBA basketball inside a single set.
Buck Williams · Larry Johnson · Latrell Sprewell · Alonzo Mourning · Robert Horry · Jalen Rose · Ray Allen · Stephon Marbury · Derek Fisher · Tim Duncan · Paul Pierce · Shawn Marion · Andre Miller · Jamal Crawford · Chris Bosh · LeBron James · Emeka Okafor (Top Shot Debut) · Steph Curry · Blake Griffin · Kemba Walker
THE SETS IN THE DROP
Run It Back: For The Win
Standard /149, Blockchain /99, Hardcourt /50, Hexwave /25, Jukebox /10, Galactic /5, Omega /1
Twenty of the most exciting game-winners in NBA history, because the shot never cares who is taking it. There are Hall of Famers in here, and there are role players who did the exact same thing on the exact same stage.
Alvin Robertson • Hersey Hawkins • Dan Majerle • Vernon Maxwell • Jeff Malone • Dennis Scott • Clyde Drexler • John Starks • Eric Snow • Kevin Garnett • Milt Palacio • Jamal Mashburn • Carlos Arroyo • Shareef Abdur-Rahim • Mike Bibby • David Lee • Joe Johnson • Hedo Turkoglu • Devin Harris • Courtney Lee
The Immortals
Standard /149, Blockchain /99, Hardcourt /50, Hexwave /25, Jukebox /10, Galactic /5, Omega /1
Defining plays from ten players enshrined in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
David Thompson • Dennis Rodman • Drazen Petrovic • Dino Radja • Mitch Richmond • Arvydas Sabonis • Grant Hill • Vlade Divac • Ben Wallace • Jason Kidd
Run It Back: Legacies
Standard /44, Galactic /5, Omega /1
Six NBA icons and the plays that define their careers, at the Legendary tier. One of the six is a 62-point night that people still talk about twenty years later.
Joe Dumars • Toni Kukoc • Penny Hardaway • Tracy McGrady • Amar'e Stoudemire • Dwight Howard
Heroes of the Game
Standard /10, Diamond Edition /1
Dominique Wilkins takes off and dunks on three defenders at once, which is a sentence that should not be possible and was routine for him. One of the greatest dunkers who ever lived, and an absolute hero of the game.
Steve Kerr finally gets his Top Shot Debut. Barely used through the playoffs, Kerr comes off the bench in the fourth quarter of Game 6 of the 2003 Western Conference Finals, drills four threes, blows the game open, eliminates Dallas and sends San Antonio to the Finals, where they win the title. Kerr owns nine championships and the only person in NBA history with 4+ rings as a player and as a coach.
THE ANTHOLOGY
Three new Moments for the three players whose all-time Top Shot leaderboards have been the most fiercely contested on this platform, and the top three collectors on each of those leaderboards receive one.
LeBron James /199 — 2007, and a 22-year-old LeBron scores 48 against Detroit in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals, including the game's final 25 points and 29 of Cleveland's last 30, to win 109-107 in double overtime.
Steph Curry /199 — Game 2 of the 2017 Finals against LeBron's Cavaliers, and Steph puts up 32 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds for the first playoff triple-double of his career. Golden State wins 132-113 and moves to 14-0 in that postseason, the best playoff start any team has ever had.
Kevin Durant /35 — Game 3 of the 2018 Finals in Cleveland, and Durant goes for 43 points, 13 rebounds and 7 assists before pulling up from thirty-three feet to break the game open. Golden State wins 110-102, takes a 3-0 lead, and closes the series out two nights later.
The snapshot is Wednesday, August 26 at 12:00 PM ET.
The top three on each leaderboard receive a specific serial rather than a random one:
#1 on the leaderboard receives serial #1
#2 receives the jersey match serial
#3 receives the perfect serial
Because Kevin Durant's /35 Anthology has the same jersey serial / perfect serial, the #2 collector will earn the #35/35, and the #3 collector will earn the #2/35
Nine Moments in total, three per leaderboard, and every one of them goes to a collector who has been building toward this for years.
SET CHALLENGES
Complete a full Rare set from this drop and lock it, and before the start of the next NBA season you receive a single-Moment pack carrying an exclusive parallel minted to /17 with custom artwork. It is the first parallel on Top Shot that exists only as a reward for completing a set.
Run It Back: Legacies works the same way at the Legendary tier, with the reward minted to /4.
Full details coming soon.
A New Way In
Lock in. If you would rather keep your collection intact, the Locking Leaderboards are the other side of the same coin. Lock your Run It Back Moments, climb the board, and win the Right to Buy, which is effectively an allowlist for one Box or one Case. You keep everything you own and you still get to the front of the line.
Trade in. If you have been collecting Run It Back since the beginning, your collection is currency. The Trade-In Auctions let you submit Moments from your Run It Back collection to win a Standard Pack, a Box or a Case outright, and because the lots are sectioned out by series, a deep Run It Back collector gets multiple swings across the week instead of one.
Join the Drop. Put your order in when draws open Tuesday, August 25 and close in waves Wednesday, August 26.
Pack Details
Run It Back: Origins Case | $2,500 | 98 for sale Draw opens Aug 25, 3:00 PM ET Draw closes Aug 26, 3:00 PM ET
Each Case contains 3 Case Toppers and 5 Premium Packs.
Case Toppers | Every one is /10 or lower, with no exceptions. Look for:
- 10% Ultimate /10 or /1, or Lego /5 or /1
- 41% Run It Back: Origins /10, /5 or /1
- 48% Run It Back: For The Win or The Immortals /10, /5 or /1
Premium Packs | Each pack contains 10 Moments, with at least 3 from Run It Back: Origins guaranteed.
Run It Back: Origins Box | $250 | 975 for sale Draw opens Aug 25, 3:00 PM ET Draw closes Aug 26, 4:00 PM ET
Each Box contains 2 Box Toppers and 5 Standard Packs.
Box Toppers | Look for:
- 50% Run It Back: Origins /99 or lower
- 43% Run It Back: For The Win or The Immortals /50 or lower
- 6.65% Anthology, Lego or Ultimate
The only thing above /99 you will find in a Box Topper is the Steph and LeBron rookie.
Standard Pack | $25 | 1,440 for sale Draw opens Aug 25, 3:00 PM ET Draw closes Aug 26, 5:00 PM ET
6,315 total Standard Packs produced, 1,440 available outside of Boxes. One guaranteed hit per pack.
- 39% Run It Back: Origins
- 59% Run It Back: For The Win or The Immortals
- 1.8% Lego, Ultimate or Anthology
Premium Chance Hit | $89 | 400 for sale Live drop Aug 26, 5:30 PM ET
1 Moment per pack, and the floor is high. Every Premium Chance Hit lands at /25 or lower, or a Lego, Ultimate or Anthology Moment.
- 50% Run It Back: Origins /25 or lower
- 33% Run It Back: For The Win or The Immortals /25 or lower
- 16% Lego, Ultimate or Anthology
Chance Hit | $9 | 9,999 for sale Live drop Aug 26, 6:00 PM ET
3 Moments per pack with a 33% chance at a hit.
Historical Scarcity Rule Update
The core principle of the Historical Scarcity Rules published September 25, 2023 is a combined supply ceiling governing historical Rare and Legendary Moments mint counts. The combined supply of Rare and Legendary Moments for a historical player remain at /998 across two series.
A small number of players in the upcoming Run It Back Origins drop will receive a second historical Rare Moment within the same two-year span, having also received one in the prior year. However, for these editions, the combined supply across both editions will land 25 to 45 percent below the /998 maximum permitted across Rare and Legendary editions, consistent with the ceiling described above. Restrictions based on scarcity are important, but restrictions based on tier repetition or series spacing impose untenable editorial and other considerations on the distribution of historical content and are being removed.
You can see the Rules blog here, which will be updated to reflect this change.
