Basketball Parallel Guide
Upper Deck SP Authentic Player Checklist Guide
Explore Upper Deck SP Authentic player checklists and card counts by season.
- Seasons
- 17
- Checklist cards
- 12,806
About Upper Deck SP Authentic
SP Authentic is an autograph-led premium product with a long checklist history, so the guide begins with exact player counts rather than a manufactured Base rainbow. Every mapped card retains its release, family, version, serial evidence, partners, and physical-card identity from the canonical SP Authentic ledger.
Research note
All 17 mapped basketball releases reconcile to 266 retained checklist bodies and 12,806 exact physical player-bearing identities. Construction and provenance are complete for 2001-02, 2003-04, 2005-06, and 2007-08; provenance is also complete for 2008-09 and partially resolved for 2004-05 and 2006-07. Across the seven audited seasons, 796 memorabilia cards are provenance-resolved, while 126 cards from 2004-05 and 130 from 2006-07 remain fail-closed. Redemption prizes never overwrite the construction of the redemption card itself.