This Card Was Worth $1,000… Now It's $10 😳 *2019-20 PRIZM BASKETBALL*

Card Collector 2 opens two boxes of 2019-20 Panini Prizm Basketball, a product that was iconic during the initial sports card market boom in late 2019. The video highlights the dramatic depreciation of once-valuable cards: Zion Williamson base Prism PSA 10s dropped from nearly $1,000 to $10 (a 98% decline), while a Zion Gold Prism BGS 95 previously sold for approximately $122,000. At their peak, these boxes sold for around $4,000, but the collector purchased both boxes for approximately $1,100 combined ($550-$525 each). The collector notes that Prism Basketball released in early December 2019, just before COVID-19 hit the United States, and served as a catalyst for the initial sports card market explosion. During the box breaks, he pulls various rookies and inserts including Patrick Ewing, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Steph Curry color parallels, along with several auto cards (Antonio Blakey, PJ Washington, Admiral Schofield). Despite chasing Zion Williamson and other high-value cards throughout both boxes, he doesn't hit the major rookies he's targeting. The video concludes by acknowledging that while the specific cards he wanted weren't pulled, the product was still enjoyable and contained valuable numbered parallels. The collector emphasizes how different the market dynamics were during the 2019-2020 period compared to current conditions, and notes that ripping at original $4,000 box prices would tell a very different story about expected returns.