2024-25 Topps Inception Basketball will give the NBA’s biggest stars their first appearance on a brand that has made its mark in several other sports. Hobby boxes will contain two autographs, one memorabilia card or case hit, and two base parallels. The base set will include 100 cards of leading NBA veterans like LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Nikola Jokić, and Kevin Durant, dozens of rookies, and legends like Shaquille O’Neal, Larry Bird, and Allen Iverson. Base cards have eight parallels. Autograph sets will include: Memorabilia sets are: Topps also announced an ultra-rare SSP insert called Launch. There have been Inception basketball cards in the past focused on amateurs, with two sets highlighting athletes from Overtime Elite in 2021 and 2022 and a Bowman Inception University set in 2022, which gained notoriety for early autograph cards of Victor Wembanyama and Caitlin Clark.