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2026-27 Topps Flagship Basketball Checklist and Box Guide
2026-27 Topps Flagship Basketball checklist by the numbers: 300 base cards, 45 rookies, every insert, autograph and relic set, plus all seven box formats.
2026-27 Topps Flagship Basketball has a 300-card base set with 45 rookie cards on Topps' own checklist, seven box formats and dozens of insert, autograph and relic sets. Here is the checklist counted line by line, with the release-date conflict laid out.
TL;DR: Topps' checklist PDF (file dated 10-9-26) has 300 base cards, rookies at 256 to 300, 29 insert lists, 14 autograph lists and 8 relic lists by our count. Topps Ripped lists seven formats, from a 20-pack hobby box with one autograph or relic to a 24-card fat pack. Street date is October 22 per Ripped and DK Network; Checklist Insider says November 5. No odds sheet yet as of October 10.
2026-27 Topps Flagship Basketball: the short version (quick answer)
2026-27 Topps Flagship Basketball is Topps' main NBA set for the season: 300 base cards, rookies numbered 256 to 300, and seven formats from hobby boxes to hanger and fat packs. Topps Ripped's box guide (September 28) gives an October 22, 2026 street date. Odds were not published as of October 10.
Key Takeaways
- Base set: 300 cards, numbered 1 to 300 on Topps' checklist PDF.
- Rookies: the checklist tags 45 base cards (256 to 300) as rookies; Topps Ripped's guide says 40.
- Release date: October 22 per Topps Ripped and DK Network; November 5 per Checklist Insider (secondary). Unresolved as of October 10.
- Formats: Hobby, Hobby Jumbo, Value, Mega, Fanatics Value, Hanger Pack and Fat Pack.
- Hits: one autograph or relic per hobby box; one autograph and one relic per jumbo box (Ripped).
- Odds: no Topps odds sheet found yet.
Overview
Topps Ripped's box guide sums up the base set as "300-card Base Set featuring 200 veterans, 40 rookies, 30 team combo cards, and 30 retired players." It also flags two firsts: "The set also includes the first LeBron James Sixers and Giannis Antetokounmpo Heat cards."
The checklist PDF linked from Topps' UK store page carries 10-9-26 in its file name and runs 57 pages. Card 1 is "Alex Sarr Washington Wizards" and card 300 is "Jaden Bradley Toronto Raptors Rookie." Like every Topps checklist, it carries the caveat that the list reflects "the intended configuration of that product at the time of production, but actual contents and odds may vary."
The release date is the open question. Ripped's guide says "Street date: October 22, 2026," and DK Network's October calendar (updated October 9) lists the product on October 22, with preorders opening "at 1 p.m. ET on October 6 ahead of the standard October 22 release." Checklist Insider gives "Release Date: November 5, 2026," with Mega on November 12. Our 2026 release calendar will carry whichever date Topps confirms in release week.
Analysis: 2026-27 Topps Flagship Basketball box formats
Topps Ripped says the product "comes in seven formats: Hobby Box, Hobby Jumbo Box, Value Box, Mega Box, Fanatics Value Box, Hanger Pack, and Fat Pack." Most formats have their own exclusive parallel, and Ripped says every retail format also carries Holo Foil parallels and "the Retail-only Soundcheck and Certified Cold inserts."
| Format | Packs x cards (Ripped) | Guaranteed content (Ripped) | Exclusive |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hobby Box | 20 x 12 | one autograph or relic | Victory parallels, Player Number Variations |
| Hobby Jumbo Box | 10 x 28 | one autograph and one relic | Sandglitter parallels |
| Value Box | 6 x 12 | Season Tip Off parallels, six inserts | Season Tip Off |
| Mega Box | 12 x 15 | four 1981-82 Topps Basketball inserts | none (shares Holo Foil parallels and Retail-only inserts) |
| Fanatics Value Box | 8 x 12 | one Topps Foil Pattern parallel per pack, nine inserts | Topps Foil Pattern |
| Hanger Pack | 1 x 48 | two Diamante parallels, one 1981-82 insert, five inserts | Diamante parallels |
| Fat Pack | 1 x 24 | two inserts | none (shares Holo Foil parallels and Retail-only inserts) |
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Prices as listed by Checklist Insider (secondary) on October 10, 2026, from the October 6 presale: Hobby $169.99, Jumbo $339.99, Mega $59.99 and Value Blaster $29.99. Checklist Insider also lists 12 hobby boxes per case and 20 mega boxes per case. DK Network and Checklist Insider name some retail formats differently ("Blaster," "Blackout Blaster"), and Checklist Insider gives the Fanatics box as 12 packs of 7 cards against Ripped's 8 packs of 12, and the Value Blaster as 10 packs of 12 against Ripped's 6 packs. We use Ripped's figures in the table.
If the hobby, jumbo and retail labels are new to you, our box format explainer covers what each one usually guarantees.
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Analysis: the 2026-27 Topps Flagship Basketball checklist in numbers
We extracted the checklist PDF's text and counted each section. The base set and its variations come first.
| Section | Cards (our count of the PDF) |
|---|---|
| Base Cards | 300 (1 to 300) |
| Base Cards Blackout | 300 |
| Clear Variation | 100 |
| Golden Mirror Image Variation I, II, III | 100 each |
| Player Number Variation | 100 |
| Team Color Border Variation | 100 |
| Base Facsimile Autographs | 100 |
| Break Point / Project Rookie | 10 each |
| The Flagship Collection Base Cards | 90 (30 tagged Rookie) |
| The Flagship Collection Chrome Base Cards | 90 |
Ripped adds that the Clear Variations are "printed on acetate and numbered to 10," new for this year. Checklist Insider lists the Golden Mirror checklist as one 300-card list where the PDF has three lists of 100; it is the same total split differently. Ripped mentions Wood Variations, but we found no Wood section header in the PDF text.
Inserts. 29 insert lists by our count. Two are retro sets on the 1981-82 Topps Basketball design: "1981 82 Topps Basketball" and "1981 82 Topps Chrome Basketball." The rest include All Kings (24 cards in the extracted text, which has no AK-5), Bounce (25), Drivers (40), From the Vault (40), Limited Stock (50), New School (40), No Limit (40), Rookie Code (40), Scan and Slam (50), Stars of NBA (40) and a 16-card Oversized Topps Basketball Card set. Ripped says "All Kings adds Gold 1/1 cards for the first time in Topps Basketball," and Checklist Insider says Bounce "helps kick off the super short print (SSP) lineup." Our numbered cards guide explains what a Gold 1/1 means.
Autographs. 14 autograph lists, four of them on the 1981-82 design. The biggest are 1981-82 Topps Chrome Basketball Veteran Autographs (47), Flagship Real One Autograph (46), Game Script (46) and Contemporary Marks (45). Rookie-only lists include Flagship Real One Rookie Autograph (40), Rookie Photo Shoot Autographs (39), Rookie Photo Shoot Dual Autograph (20) and Rookie Pathway Signatures (20).
Relics. 8 relic sections: Flagship Real One Relic (50), Impact Relics, Rise to the Occasion Relics and Rookie Roundball Remnants (40 each), Flagship Real One Rookie Relic (38), Own the Game (37), and Franchise Fabrics and Woven Relics (20 each).
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2026-27 Topps Flagship Basketball rookies
The checklist tags 45 base cards as rookies, from "256 AJ Dybantsa Washington Wizards Rookie" to "300 Jaden Bradley Toronto Raptors Rookie." DK Network and Checklist Insider both name AJ Dybantsa, Darryn Peterson, Cameron Boozer, Caleb Wilson and Keaton Wagler as the headline rookies; Checklist Insider also notes "a new RC logo compared to last year."
To see which rookies Topps gave the most cards, we counted every line in the checklist text that names each base-set rookie, across base, parallels, variations, inserts, autographs and relics.
| Rookie | Team | Base # | Checklist lines |
|---|---|---|---|
| AJ Dybantsa | Washington Wizards | 256 | 43 |
| Darryn Peterson | Utah Jazz | 257 | 43 |
| Cameron Boozer | Memphis Grizzlies | 258 | 43 |
| Caleb Wilson | Chicago Bulls | 259 | 43 |
| Mikel Brown Jr. | Brooklyn Nets | 261 | 41 |
| Keaton Wagler | Los Angeles Clippers | 260 | 39 |
| Kingston Flemings | Atlanta Hawks | 263 | 39 |
| Brayden Burries | Milwaukee Bucks | 265 | 39 |
| Morez Johnson Jr. | Dallas Mavericks | 264 | 38 |
| Nate Ament | Milwaukee Bucks | 268 | 36 |
A line count measures how often a player appears on the checklist, not print runs or odds. The rookie count also differs between Topps' two documents: Ripped's guide says 40 rookies, the PDF tags 45. We go with the PDF, which Checklist Insider's 256 to 300 list matches. The separate 90-card Flagship Collection adds 30 more cards tagged Rookie.
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Odds: what Topps has published so far
None yet. As of October 10, 2026 we found no 2026-27 Topps Flagship Basketball odds sheet linked from Topps Ripped's box guide or listed by Checklist Insider; the Topps US store page blocked our browser that day. We will not estimate pull rates from openings. When Topps posts the sheet, this guide gets an odds table by format.
Community: what collectors are saying
The preorder thread on r/basketballcards (October 6) focused on format choice. u/ZucchiniTall844, who started the thread, wrote: "Hobby has a higher floor as well as exclusive SSPs that cannot be pulled from blasters and megas." (comment). That lines up with Ripped's note that Victory parallels and Player Number Variations "are exclusive to the Hobby Box."
Our take
Based on Topps' checklist and Ripped's box guide: this is a big set with a clear format split. The hobby box is the only place for Victory parallels and Player Number Variations, the jumbo is the only place for Sandglitter and adds a second hit, and each retail format has its own parallel. The 45 rookie base cards and 14 autograph lists give rookie collectors plenty of names, led by Dybantsa, Peterson, Boozer and Wilson at 43 checklist lines each. Two things are not settled as of October 10: the release date (October 22 or November 5) and the odds. Check both on the Topps page before you buy.
Frequently Asked Questions
The five questions above cover the release date, base set size, rookie count, hobby box contents and odds for 2026-27 Topps Flagship Basketball.
When does 2026-27 Topps Flagship Basketball come out?
Topps Ripped's box guide, dated September 28, gives a street date of October 22, 2026, and DK Network's calendar agrees. Checklist Insider lists November 5 for Hobby and Jumbo and November 12 for Mega. As of October 10 the sources disagree, so check the Topps product page before release week.
How many cards are in the 2026-27 Topps Flagship Basketball base set?
300. Topps' checklist PDF numbers the base set 1 to 300, starting with Alex Sarr of the Wizards and ending with Jaden Bradley of the Raptors. The same 300 cards also appear in a Blackout list and across three 100-card Golden Mirror Image Variation lists, and 100 cards each get Clear, Player Number and Team Color Border variations.
How many rookies are in 2026-27 Topps Flagship Basketball?
Topps' checklist tags 45 base cards as rookies, numbers 256 to 300, from AJ Dybantsa to Jaden Bradley. Topps Ripped's box guide says 40 rookies, so the two Topps documents disagree. We counted the checklist PDF line by line, and Checklist Insider's list shows the same 256 to 300 range.
What is in a 2026-27 Topps Flagship Basketball hobby box?
Topps Ripped says each hobby box has 20 packs of 12 cards with one autograph or relic. Victory parallels and Player Number Variations are hobby exclusives. The Jumbo box has 10 packs of 28 cards with one autograph and one relic, and Sandglitter parallels only appear there.
Are there odds for 2026-27 Topps Flagship Basketball?
Not yet. As of October 10, 2026 we found no Topps odds sheet for the product linked from Topps Ripped's box guide, and Checklist Insider lists none. We do not estimate odds, so this guide gives box contents and checklist counts only until Topps posts the sheet.
How we checked this
Checklist facts come from Topps' checklist PDF (10-9-26 in its file name), linked from the Topps UK store page and hosted on Topps' Shopify CDN, downloaded and extracted with a PDF text reader on October 10, 2026; section sizes and rookie line counts are our counts of that text. Box formats come from Topps Ripped's box guide dated September 28, 2026, re-read on October 10. Release dates and prices from DK Network and Checklist Insider are labelled as secondary. The community quote was read on Reddit the same day. We have not opened this product. Full source table: data/sources/2026-27-topps-flagship-basketball-checklist.sources.md.
References
- Topps checklist, 2026-27 Topps Flagship Basketball (PDF): https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0662/9749/5709/files/Copy_of_2026-27_Topps_Flagship_Basketball_Checklist_10-9-26.xls_-_Compatibility_Mode.pdf?v=1791570579
- Topps Ripped, 2026-27 Topps Flagship Basketball: Which Box Is Best?: https://ripped.topps.com/2026-27-topps-flagship-basketball-which-box-is-best/
- DK Network, October 2026 sports card release calendar (secondary): https://dknetwork.draftkings.com/2026/09/28/october-2026-sports-card-release-calendar/
- Checklist Insider, 2026-27 Topps Flagship Basketball (secondary): https://www.checklistinsider.com/2026-27-topps-flagship-basketball
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- 2026 Topps Update Rookies: All 111 Players on the Checklist: the same line-by-line rookie count, done for baseball's Update Series.
- 2026 Topps Heritage Football Checklist and Box Guide: the football product releasing the same week, with its checklist counted section by section.
- PSA Grading Fees 2026: Every Tier, Price and Turnaround: what grading a rookie card costs after PSA's September 2026 changes.
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