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Adam Gray

Adam Gray

Sports card content creator known as @thereal27guy; founder and editor-in-chief of Basketball Card Fanatic magazine and former PWCC Marketplace content manager.

Jul 9, 2026

4:02
Can you kinda let our audience know, like, give me your backstory real quick, the elevator Adam Gray hobby backstory.
4:10
Uh, I've collected my whole life.
4:11
Um, collected fr- from the late '80s to today.
4:15
Never really, never stopped.
4:16
Worked at a card shop for years.
4:18
Flipped cards in the late '90s to pay for my mission, served a mission in England, um, and paid for my undergraduate and master's degrees flipping cards, and then, um, got to the point where around 2010, bought my house.
4:32
Had to sell my whole collection.
4:52
Okay.
8:54
Like, what is it about cards that you are not only drawn to collect, but build a career around at this point?
9:03
Man, that's a real soul-searching question, Rhett.
9:07
I'm serious.
9:08
It is.
9:09
I, um, I wanna say a few things about this.
9:13
Um, so I didn't know that this would become a career.
9:19
I didn't.

24 MINS LATER

32:52
And, and, and using that as a product to then go to other businesses a- and say, "I, I can do this for you too." Like, how, how did that all take shape?
18:03
Yeah
18:03
... for the Pistons.
18:03
And then in round three, um, you know, assuming that it stays like this, like Celt- the Celtics are gonna get back Tatum, and Tatum and the Celtics are gonna be, I, I think that they're gonna be formidable.
18:13
I do.
18:14
I don't see any reason why they wouldn't.
18:15
They've been formidable without him.
18:17
They've been good without him.

12 MINS LATER

30:46
Right

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