Despite losing their license to produce NBA licensed basketball cards, Upper Deck looks to be leaving the hobby with a bang with signed Lebron James basketball cards with unique inscriptions that will be randomly inserted into the company's final releases:
Fans of LeBron can find autograph cards of the NBA superstar exclusively in Upper Deck’s new 2008-09 NBA UD Black (releasing April 14), 2008-09 NBA Radiance (releasing April 29) and 2008-09 NBA Ultimate Collection (releasing May 12) trading card lines. Some versions of these cards will have rare inscriptions from LeBron like “08 USA Gold,” “08 Redeem Team,” and “King James.”
Source: UpperDeck.com
