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Best NBA rookie cards of 2026, ranked by collector interest

Yaxel Lendeborg is the 2026 NBA rookie collectors are looking up most: 52,038 Wikipedia lookups in the last 30 days. Below, every NBA rookie we track with enough lookups to measure, ranked the same way, with his key rookie card where our sourced checklist has it. Attention, not card prices.

Attention measures how much people are looking up this player, a leading indicator collectors watch. It is not a price. Source: Wikipedia pageviews through 2026-10-15.

2026 NBA rookies, ranked

Wikipedia lookups in the last 30 days, then this week against last.

  1. 1

    Yaxel LendeborgGSW SF

    52,038 lookups in 30 daysup 54% this weekSurging

  2. 2

    AJ DybantsaWAS SF

    Key RC: 2025-26 Bowman Paper Prospects #BPP-1

    41,174 lookups in 30 daysup 40% this weekRising

  3. 3

    Aday MaraOKC C

    40,153 lookups in 30 daysup 547% this weekSurging

  4. 4

    Darius AcuffSAC SG

    23,053 lookups in 30 daysup 79% this weekSurging

  5. 5

    Cameron BoozerMEM PF

    Key RC: 2025-26 Bowman University Best #69

    21,893 lookups in 30 daysup 16% this weekRising

  6. 6

    Darryn PetersonUTA SG

    Key RC: 2025-26 Bowman Paper Prospects #BPP-2

    16,885 lookups in 30 daysup 1% this weekFlat

  7. 7

    Cameron CarrLAL SF

    13,722 lookups in 30 daysdown 67% this weekCooling

  8. 8

    Alpha DialloDEN PF

    13,259 lookups in 30 daysdown 45% this weekCooling

  9. 9

    Nate AmentMIL PF

    11,828 lookups in 30 daysdown 57% this weekCooling

  10. 10

    Keaton WaglerLAC SG

    11,505 lookups in 30 daysup 3% this weekFlat

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  1. 11

    Bennett StirtzOKC PG

    11,033 lookups in 30 daysup 195% this weekSurging

  2. 12

    Morez JohnsonDAL PF

    10,021 lookups in 30 daysup 103% this weekSurging

  3. 13

    Labaron PhilonPHI PG

    9,539 lookups in 30 daysdown 32% this weekCooling

  4. 14

    Caleb WilsonCHI PF

    Key RC: 2025-26 Bowman Chrome Prospects #BCP-83

    9,028 lookups in 30 daysup 25% this weekRising

  5. 15

    Kingston FlemingsATL PG

    8,702 lookups in 30 daysup 146% this weekSurging

  6. 16

    Sergio De LarreaDAL PG

    8,636 lookups in 30 daysup 132% this weekSurging

  7. 17

    Mikel BrownBKN PG

    8,173 lookups in 30 daysup 48% this weekRising

  8. 18

    Ebuka OkorieDET PG

    7,889 lookups in 30 daysdown 24% this weekCooling

  9. 19

    Braden SmithIND PG

    7,699 lookups in 30 daysup 213% this weekSurging

  10. 20

    Allen GravesTOR SF

    7,641 lookups in 30 daysup 86% this weekSurging

  11. 21

    Tobe AwakaCHI C

    7,608 lookups in 30 daysdown 51% this weekCooling

  12. 22

    Karim LopezMEM SF

    7,189 lookups in 30 daysup 24% this weekRising

  13. 23

    Chris CenacBOS C

    7,155 lookups in 30 daysup 119% this weekSurging

  14. 24

    Graham IkeGSW PF

    6,761 lookups in 30 daysdown 31% this weekCooling

  15. 25

    Koa PeatPHX PF

    6,375 lookups in 30 daysup 45% this weekRising

Last year's class: second-year NBA players

Their rookie cards came out last season; the same ranking.

  1. 1

    Cooper FlaggDAL SG

    Key RC: 2025-26 Topps #201

    57,158 lookups in 30 daysflat this weekFlat

  2. 2

    Dylan HarperSAS SG

    Key RC: 2025-26 Topps #202

    24,335 lookups in 30 daysup 46% this weekRising

  3. 3

    Ryan NembhardDEN PG

    Key RC: 2025-26 Inception #24

    19,617 lookups in 30 daysdown 43% this weekCooling

  4. 4

    Jon ElmoreSAS PG

    19,426 lookups in 30 daysup 368% this weekSurging

  5. 5

    Kon KnueppelCHA SG

    Key RC: 2025-26 Topps #204

    17,365 lookups in 30 daysup 1% this weekFlat

  6. 6

    Jameer NelsonPHI PG

    15,039 lookups in 30 daysdown 25% this weekCooling

  7. 7

    Julian ReeseNOP PF

    12,016 lookups in 30 daysup 63% this weekSurging

  8. 8

    Curtis JonesCLE PG

    11,570 lookups in 30 daysdown 75% this weekCooling

  9. 9

    Caleb LovePHI PG

    11,419 lookups in 30 daysdown 52% this weekCooling

  10. 10

    Tarik BiberovicDAL PF

    11,104 lookups in 30 daysup 161% this weekSurging

Questions

Which NBA rookie are collectors watching most in 2026?
Yaxel Lendeborg: 52,038 Wikipedia lookups in the last 30 days, the most of any NBA rookie we track. That is attention, not a price.

How this list is ranked

Collector interest is how many people looked each player up on Wikipedia: the last 30 days for the ranking, the last 7 against the 7 before for the weekly change. It measures attention, not what any card sells for, and Parlae prints no card values. A key rookie card is picked by the criteria printed on each player's card page, from his sourced checklist.

By the Parlae deskCard lists updated Oct 16, 2026 at 12:22 PM ETHow this is builtReport a wrong number