2024-25 Panini Revolution Victor Wembanyama #79 CCG 10

Description

Victor Wembanyama arrived in the NBA with more advance hype than any prospect since LeBron James, and it wasn't just hometown noise. Playing in France for Metropolitans 92, the 7-foot-4 forward-center had already won an LNB Pro A scoring title and a league MVP award before the San Antonio Spurs won the draft lottery and took him first overall in the 2023 NBA Draft, making him the first Frenchman ever selected with the No. 1 pick. He did not merely meet the hype, he redefined what a rookie season could look like. In 2023-24 Wembanyama averaged 21.4 points, 10.6 rebounds and led the league in blocks at 3.6 per game, numbers that made him a unanimous Rookie of the Year and the first rookie ever named to the NBA's First Team All-Defense. He posted a 5x5 stat line against the Lakers that no player his age had ever managed, and by some advanced measures his per-36-minute production was the best any first-year player in NBA history had put up. The follow-up season was where the story got complicated, which is often where a career becomes worth watching rather than just admiring. In 2024-25 he took another leap, averaging 24.3 points, 11 rebounds and a league-best 3.8 blocks while adding real three-point shooting to his game, and he was named to his first All-Star team. Then, in February, team doctors discovered deep vein thrombosis in his right shoulder. He was shut down for the rest of the season after only 46 games, his march toward Defensive Player of the Year and All-NBA honors cut off mid-stride. The Spurs still handed him a trophy for leading the league in blocked shots that spring, a strange consolation for a season that ended not with a slump or a bad shooting night but with a blood clot. This card is not his rookie issue, that came a year earlier, in the 2023-24 products that captured his debut season. This is a 2024-25 Panini Revolution base card, part of a set whose swirling, technicolor design has become one of the more recognizable modern basketball issues, picturing a player who by this point had already rewritten rookie-season history and was in the middle of proving that his sophomore year would be even better before injury intervened.

2024 · Revolution · Victor Wembanyama

2024-25 Panini Revolution Victor Wembanyama #79 CCG 10

$149.00

CCG 10Gem Mint

Rookie Card

SWAPP™ Rating

Overall

S Sellability 92%
W Wow Factor 60%
A Age 40%
P Popularity 95%
P Population Count Medium^* 300

* Graded copies only (PSA, BGS, SGC, CGC and others) — ungraded copies are not counted.

How This Card Scores

This card scores 67% overall — the average of its five SWAPP™ ratings, each measured as set out below. A recent (May 2025) mass-produced base card of a hugely popular, high-selling superstar, with modest visual flash and a likely moderate-to-large graded population, reflecting steady but unspectacular collector appeal for this particular parallel.

SellabilityHigh · 92%: High sellability index. As one of the NBA's most-hyped young stars, Wembanyama cards move constantly on eBay with dense, fast-turning listing activity across nearly every set.
Wow Factor60%: Worked out from how the card looks: a modern card with a base design (no parallel or special finish), which starts at 60% on its design. No autograph or patch is needed for that score.
Age40%: Worked out from the card's age: released 2025-05, it has been out about 1 year. Past six months, with comps to price it against, a card scores 40%; the next step comes at five years. That puts it at 40%.
Popularity95%: Wembanyama is a two-time All-Star, the reigning unanimous Defensive Player of the Year, and just led the Spurs to the 2026 NBA Finals, drawing sold-out crowds worldwide.
Population CountMedium* · 300 · 47% Rarity: About 300 graded copies (estimated) across the grading companies — high population. Because this is the standard base parallel (not one of the numbered Lava, Astro, Lightning, or Fractal versions) of a heavily-collected superstar, submission volume across PSA, CGC, SGC and BGS is likely in the low hundreds even though an exact CGC pop report figure isn't published.