Stephen Curry's Rookie Ticket, #106 in 2009-10 Playoff Contenders, is signed by hand and carries no serial number.
The Rookie Ticket came over from Contenders football, and only thirty-five rookies appear in the basketball product. The exact print run of Curry's card was never disclosed. Panini's own short-print list placed him in the tier of 649 copies or fewer. The set has 150 cards and one parallel, a Championship Ticket of one.
The card lies on its side. ROOKIE TICKET runs up the left edge beside his name, then a stub that reads POS G, NO 30, YRS R, above the Warriors logo. WESTERN CONFERENCE and PACIFIC sit at the top beside the league logo. Curry drives in the Warriors' dark road uniform, number 30, the ball low at his left side, over ghosted letters that spell out 09-10 ROOKIE, and his signature crosses the photograph in blue marker.
The ticket has room for a large signature, and he used it.
He averaged 17.5 points that first season. Ankle surgeries in 2011 and 2012 followed, and then the most valuable player awards of 2015 and 2016, the second of them unanimous, and four championships.
