The one-of-a-kind Cooper Flagg NBA Rookie Debut Patch Autograph card with splashy public offers from the Dallas Mavericks and a variety of collectors and auction houses was hit on Monday night. Rhody Breakers, which operates out of Baseball Cards of RI in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, pulled the card for a customer in a box break of 2025-26 Topps Chrome Updates Basketball streamed live on YouTube.The card features a patch worn on Flagg’s jersey during his NBA regular season debut that was then removed and used to create a one-of-one trading card meant to represent the ultimate rookie card for each player who has one. Flagg’s Debut Patch card is arguably the most coveted from the program, across all sports, to date.The card, which will need to be redeemed by its new owner to receive it directly from Topps (a placeholder card was included in the pack so as not to damage the real one), was pulled by breakers Chris Card and Chris Louth for a customer using the name “Jason Williams.” Rather than purchase entire boxes individually, some collectors participate in breaks, where they can purchase the rights to a specific team or player and receive only the eligible cards from a set number of packs or boxes. The new owner of the Flagg Debut Patch card paid $515 to receive every Dallas Mavericks card in a break of three hobby boxes (a total of 60 packs, with four cards in each) of 2025-26 Topps Chrome Updates Basketball, which came out on Aug. 6.Baseball Cards of RI was founded by Robert Mott and Jerry Mazzone in 1988 and the breaking operation, Rhody Breakers, launched in 2019. According to Card, who is also a professor at the University of Rhode Island, the shop has three full-time employees and Rhody Breakers is made up of a trio of friends running the operation outside of their full-time jobs. Card says this is easily the most significant card pulled by the business in its 38-year history.“People have opened big cards out of the shop, but from our breaks — $10,000, $20,000, $30,000 cards here and there over the years,” the aptly named Card told The Athletic. “But the industry’s also changed, so modern cards didn’t have $3 million or $4 million bounties on them even just a few years ago when (the hobby) was still at its Covid peak. This blows it out. It’s not even close. I expect this card to fetch $5 million-plus.”Video of Card and Louth pulling Flagg’s Debut Patch card spread rapidly across social media Monday night due its significance. Collectors quickly noticed the card was found by a smaller card shop rather than one of the hobby’s behemoth breaking operations, which can open hundreds of cases (12 hobby boxes are in one case) of a product for their customers. Even New York Knicks center and recently crowned NBA champion Karl-Anthony Towns entered the chase by opening 100 cases of the product on release day.