Featured DCM Sold Card: A Mint 9 Kobe Bryant SLAM

Every so often a card rolls through DCM that carries a little extra weight. This week's Featured Sold Card is one of them, a 2000 Upper Deck SLAM Kobe Bryant that graded a clean DCM 9 Mint and then found a new home on eBay.

Let's get into it.

Kobe Bryant Upper Deck Slam 9 Mint DCM

🏀 The Card

This is the Kobe Bryant SLAM insert from the 2000 Upper Deck set. The SLAM inserts leaned into bold, graphic design and put the game's biggest stars front and center, and few names carry more weight in that era than the Mamba in his Lakers prime. It is the kind of card that looks right at home behind a slab.

This collector graded with DCM, printed out a custom label, and slabbed the card without ever having to mail away and wait weeks or months for similar results!

Card Details:

• Name: Kobe Bryant
• Set: 2000 Upper Deck
• Subset: SLAM
• Card Number: 27
• Team: Los Angeles Lakers
• Sport: Basketball
• Type: Insert
• DCM Serial #: 782174

Kobe Bryant Upper Deck Slam 9 Mint DCM Back

💎 The Grade: DCM 9, Mint

Strong across the board.

• Final Grade: 9 (Mint)
• DCM Optic™ Confidence Score: A
• Graded on DCM Optic™ with three independent grading passes

Here is how the grade came together in plain terms. Centering on both sides is strong, with only a modest horizontal shift that still reads as clean and well framed. Corners and edges are very sharp, with just slight softening at the bottom-right corner on each side and no whitening or structural issues. The surfaces are glossy and clean with no scratches or creases. A few tiny speck-like marks in the lower transparent areas are the only thing keeping this one out of Gem Mint territory. No structural damage, no real handling wear, just a couple of minor imperfections that land it at a confident 9.

🐍 Why This One Matters

Kobe cards from the early 2000s sit in a sweet spot for collectors. This is the Mamba during his championship run with the Lakers, on an insert design built around personality rather than a plain base look. A clean Mint 9 copy gives collectors a sharp, display-worthy version of a player whose cards keep drawing attention year after year.

💰 The Sold Value

The hammer came down at $55 on eBay.

Comparable copies of this SLAM insert have been showing up on eBay anywhere from about $40 on the low end to $150 on the high end. A clean Mint 9 landing at $55 sits at the friendly end of that spread, which makes it an easy pickup for a collector who wants a graded Kobe without stretching for the top of the market and as a seller, never have had to pay high fees or long wait for mail away grading.

All without mailing the card away and waiting weeks or months for it to come back.

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