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COLLECTOR PULLS
DONRUSS OPTIC
LUKA DONCIC AUTO 1/
CARD AND HAS
IT GRADED BY
BECKETT GRADING
BY SCOTT BEDGOOD
A
NTHONY GOMEZ DIDN’T EVEN WANT TO BUY A BOX OF
2018 19 DONRUSS OPTIC BASKETBALL. BUT RYAN KING
OF WHAT’S ON SECOND SPORTSCARDS TALKED HIM
INTO IT, SO GOMEZ HEADED HOME WITH THE BOX.
Gomez likes to open cards at home instead of in the shop
because he’s very protective of the cards and wants to take
care of them.
As he’s done many times before, Gomez began opening
packs of cards looking for the big hits, but never in his life
has he come across a hit as big as the Luka Doncic Rated
TEARS OF
Rookies Signatures Gold Vinyl Parallel 1/1.
“I opened the pack and I saw the back of the card and I said,
‘Cool, looks like a Luka auto,’” says Gomez. “So I put it down
on the table and I called for my wife to come look. en I put
it in a penny sleeve and a top loader, then I turned it around
and I saw the 1/1. I was like ‘Oh my God, it’s real!’”
Gomez’s wife, Michelle, laughs about the fact that Gomez
didn’t even turn it around until he had the card secured in the
top loader.
“Everyone that knows him knows that’s he’s very particular