A sleeper pick for a future star

This post serves two purposes.  First and foremost, it's to highlight a rookie who's not on anybody's radar, but who is really impressing me.  Secondly, it's to highlight the idiocy that is ebay 'Buy It Now' listings.

Let me start with the positives of this young player, Sam Young.  First, from a collector's standpoint, Sam Young plays for Memphis.  That's good, because there aren't many passionate fans in Memphis and their games are seldom nationally televised.  So if you can find a good rookie to collect from a small market, it's so much more financially accessible.

Sam Young was a 2nd round pick, so right away, his initial 'offering', as it were, to the public market is at a very reasonable price.  Yet, he's making a difference already for a young Memphis team.  He's averaging just over 7 points a game and nearly 3 rebounds.  That's pretty good for a second-round bench player.  But his upside is phenomenal.  Really.

He played at Pitt for four years...and never missed a game.  Seriously, I know what it's like to root for players that are always getting hurt.  But it just isn't in the kid to not play.  And he finished 4th all time in the school's scoring leader list.  The kid's a machine that made for durability and scoring.  If I wasn't already making a collection of Nicolas Batum, I'd start a collection based on this guy.  In fact, I'm wondering if I shouldn't at least build a small collection anyway.  I think the upside is really that high for him.

NOW TO THE 2ND PART...EBAY BIN'S

First the card found on ebay:

Now, I'm not a fan of this particular Exquisite signature series.  But Sam Young's auto holds up better here in blank space than the Ricky Rubio's did that I posted on earlier.  Either way, this card is a steal for 19.99 BIN.  I'm almost ready to snatch one up at the discounted price because I know that by the time that this kid is out of his rookie contract, these cards WILL sell for much more than that.

But what boggles me, is that right below this perfectly priced card, is another Sam Young Exquisite auto /225 with a BIN of $199.99.  Really?  Are people just too busy to do a quick ebay search on a guy before they list their cards?  Or do people really think that because they paid an enitre rent payment to open a box of Exquisite that they're entitled to sell every card in the pack for 200$ or more.  I know that it's the other guys loss for listing a card that won't sell, but it's frustrating to me nonetheless.

If you ever wanted to get in ground floor on a great rookie though, buy up some of this kid's offerings and you won't regret that you did.