Signed by the Squad
The top four picks of the 2026 NBA Draft are partnered Top Shot Athletes, and they're only the start. Meet the players signing their Moments this season, and see why a signature changes what a Moment is.
Remember the poster on your bedroom wall, the one you'd have given anything to get signed? This season, it comes to life on NBA Top Shot.
We're partnering with players across the league, from this year's rookie class to second-year players to veterans, and every one of them is putting his name on his Moments. Every partnered Top Shot Athlete carries a badge that follows him across the site, so you'll know a signed player the second you land on one of his Moments.
And we're starting at the very top of the draft.
The top four, all four
The first four names called on draft night were AJ Dybantsa to Washington, Darryn Peterson to Utah, Cameron Boozer to Memphis and Caleb Wilson to Chicago. All four are partnered Top Shot Athletes for their rookie campaigns.
Dybantsa, the 6'9" forward out of Brockton, Massachusetts, came through BYU and went first overall. Peterson, a 6'6" guard from Canton, Ohio, played his college ball at Kansas and went second. Boozer, a 6'9" forward from Miami, starred at Duke before Memphis took him third, and Wilson, a 6'10" forward from Atlanta, played at North Carolina and went fourth to Chicago.
The first four picks of the draft are all signed, and their first NBA highlights will be some of the most important Moments of the year.
The rest of the squad is coming
The top four are the first wave, not the whole roster. We're revealing our partnered Top Shot Athletes in waves across rookies, sophomores and veterans, and this page grows with every announcement, so the full squad always lives right here.
Why the signature matters
Ask anyone who has been in the hobby long enough and they'll tell you the same thing: the autograph is where a player's collection lives. In cardboard, the signed rookie is the card collectors build around. It's the piece the market reaches for first when a player breaks out, and the one that holds its place years after their rookie seasons conclude.
Every Moment puts you back in the arena for a play that mattered. A signature adds one more layer to it: the mark of the player who made that play. Put that signature on a version only a handful of collectors will ever own, and you have the kind of piece a collection is remembered for.
Signed where it's scarcest
On every Moment a partnered Top Shot Athlete gets this season, the scarcest parallel carries his autograph. In Rookie Debut for example, it's not the /99 or /50, but the /5 of that Moment that is signed. hatever the set and whatever the tier, the signature goes on the scarcest version, so every signed Moment sits at the very top of its ladder.
A 1/1 for every signature
Every partnered Top Shot Athlete receives a Signature Series 1/1 this season, whether he's a rookie, a sophomore or a veteran. One Moment, one owner, one signature.
Signature Rookies sign every rung
Our partnered rookies sign at every rung of this season's Rookie Ladder. From Common to Rare to Legendary to Ultimate, the scarcest version of every set they appear in carries their signature.
Rookie Debut drops to /500 this season, and its /5 carries his autograph, making it the scarcest Rookie Debut we've ever minted. His Holo Icon 1/1 is signed. The Moments awarded to his top collectors are signed too: the Rookie Yearbook /26 that goes to his top 26 collectors, and the Blue Chip /3 that goes to the top three collectors of every All-Rookie player.
Then there's Signature Style, a /49 set built only for Signature Rookies. Every Moment in it is signed, and it's available only through trade-in auctions.
The full climb, set by set and auction by auction, is in The Rookie Ladder.
The squad, as it's announced
This page is updated every time we announce a partnered Top Shot Athlete. Here's the roster so far.
Rookies
- No. 1 pick: AJ Dybantsa, Washington Wizards
- No. 2 pick: Darryn Peterson, Utah Jazz
- No. 3 pick: Cameron Boozer, Memphis Grizzlies
- No. 4 pick: Caleb Wilson, Chicago Bulls
