From ZERO to 80 Graded Michael Jordan Cards: My Biggest Winners!

3 years ago, I owned zero graded Michael Jordan cards and had roughly $300 worth of raw childhood cards. Today, my collection includes 80 graded Jordan cards with an estimated value of approximately $17,000. In this video, I count down the 13 graded Jordan cards that have added the most value to my collection. I’ll show you where I found each card, what I paid, what it may be worth today, and whether the purchase was strategic—or simply a lucky pickup. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Other videos I referenced: 🎥 How to Collect Michael Jordan Cards...on a Budget! https://youtu.be/8SgQoHBbpoY?si=E2iIUfVl7J-y63od 🎥 The 73 Michael Jordan Base Cards I’m Chasing (And How I Track Them!) https://youtu.be/stYtoxiLHVo?si=L5ANXXHVT8HzvIoV 🍿See ALL my MJ vids 👉 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5q7ojaVM456rJWbV59Saat0MLwCad9bY&si=AqcHebpYNn6xof83 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 - Intro & History 3:39 - [13] Topps Finest No. 1 (purchased for $70) 4:18 - [12] 1995 Topps Finest No. 229 (purchased for $128) 4:51 - [11] 1991 Hoops USA No. 579 (childhood card, graded for $40) 5:53 - [10] 1991 Skybox No. 39 (childhood card, graded for $40) 6:54 - [9] 1994 Finest No. 331(purchased for $185) 7:35 - [8] 1996 Fleer Metal No. 11 (purchased for $60) 8:25 - [7] 1992 Skybox No. 31 (purchased for $110) 9:19 - [6] 1987 Fleer Sticker No. 2 (purchased for $325) 10:34 - [5] 1988 Fleer All-star No. 120 (purchased for $160) 11:47 - [4] 1996 Fleer Decade of Excellence No. 4 (purchased for $125) 12:49 - [3] 1988 Fleer No. 17 (purchased for $250) 13:44 - [2] 1995-1996 Skybox Electrified No. 278 (purchased for $45) 15:12 - [1] 1987 Fleer No. 59 (purchased for $425) 16:44 - Dad's Wrap-up ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ My biggest gain came from a card I purchased for $425 that is now estimated to be worth nearly $1,800. Other surprising winners include a $45 card-show purchase now valued around $800 and childhood cards that became far more valuable after receiving strong grades. This isn’t about spending thousands of dollars on a single rare insert, autograph or parallel. I’ve built this collection methodically—one affordable purchase at a time—while learning what to buy, what to avoid and how to remain focused on my budget. Card values can fluctuate based on grade, grading company, market demand and recent comparable sales. The values shown represent my best estimates at the time this video was recorded. Which of these 13 Michael Jordan cards would you most want in your collection? #michaeljordan #sportscards #jordancollection #jordan #sportscardstrategy Correction: 10:11 Oops, meant to say All-Star, NOT Rookie ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧔‍♂️ Healthy Dad Hacks I help busy dads find what's actually worth buying and doing. 🔗 Amazon Influencer Storefront: https://geni.us/uXVc 🔗 Website: https://healthydadhacks.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Music licensed from PremiumBeat.com Track: “American Muscle” – Good News Tunes YouTube Monetization ID: CGN8V46HR6EATYU2