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Tyrese Haliburton

2025–26 · Topps Chrome Basketball · #3

Haliburton’s recent Chrome base reference, identified by #3.

Sport: Basketball
Year / season: 2025–26
Set: Topps Chrome Basketball
Number: #3
Format: Card

About this card

Tyrese Haliburton’s 2025–26 Topps Chrome Basketball card is number 3 in that release. This is a chromium release: Topps prints the design on reflective stock, and its Refractor parallels add a rainbow sheen when the card is tilted, with colored and numbered Refractors above them.

It carries no rookie label. That is not a claim either way: the catalog adds the label only when a cited source supports it.

How to identify it

Base Chrome cards, Refractors and colored Refractors share a number, so tilt the card to read the finish and look for a serial number. Chrome and the paper set of the same year often share a design but are separate cards.

In Tyrese Haliburton’s run

This is the only Tyrese Haliburton entry in the catalog so far.

In the 2025–26 checklist

The catalog’s selected checklist for the 2025–26 Topps Chrome Basketball release also includes Amen Thompson, Evan Mobley, Franz Wagner, LeBron James, Chet Holmgren, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and 5 more. It is a partial checklist of cataloged cards, not the full release.

What to know about this issue

Topps places Haliburton #3 in the Base Cards section.
The same checklist has a separate Base Card Variations section; this entry is the regular base issue.

Inspect the source

Source reviewed 2026-10-08. The source describes this issue; it does not verify any item offered by a third party.

Topps: 2025–26 Chrome Basketball manufacturer checklist (opens in a new tab)

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The issue stays 2025–26 · Topps Chrome Basketball. These are research checks, not a condition assessment of a specimen.

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