Maxime Raynaud posts 20 PPG stretch

Maxime Raynaud’s recent production and the online market around his rookie memorabilia converged again on Monday, when fans and collectors circulated highlights, card pulls and auction screenshots on X. StatMuse lists the Sacramento Kings center at 20.0 points, 9.8 rebounds and 2.6 assists over his last five games. Sports Card Investor, which tracks completed sales, shows Raynaud’s 2025 Topps Midnight base rookie card up 53.2% over 30 days, with a last raw sale of $4.75 on March 29. The 23-year-old French center entered the league with a profile that already appealed to both NBA evaluators and collectors. Sacramento selected Raynaud with the 42nd pick in the second round of the 2025 NBA Draft after a final Stanford season in which he averaged 20.2 points, 10.6 rebounds and 1.4 blocks, according to the team’s draft release. ESPN lists him at 7-foot-1 and 250 pounds. (statmuse.com) ### Which five games pushed Raynaud back into the conversation? StatMuse’s game log shows Raynaud scoring 28 points against New Orleans on April 3, 11 against the Clippers on April 5, 17 at Golden State on April 7, 23 against Golden State on April 10 and 21 at Portland on April 12. Over that stretch, he shot 62.9% from the field and 45.5% from three-point range on 11 attempts. Those numbers gave social-media users a simple hook: a rookie center closing the season on 20 points per game. (nba.com) The same StatMuse page lists Sacramento finishing 22-60, which kept the focus on individual development rather than playoff results. ### What do the card-market numbers actually show? Sports Card Investor’s tracking page for Raynaud’s 2025 Topps Midnight No. 97 base rookie says the raw card gained $1.65 over 30 days, a 53.2% increase, and shows recent listings and sales in the roughly $5 to $10 range. (statmuse.com) The site says it tracks 48 Raynaud variations in that set. A separate SportsCardsPro page for the same Topps Midnight card shows completed sales from March in a similar band, including transactions at $6, $6.50, $7 and $8. (statmuse.com) SportsCardsPro also lists lower-priced base sales for Raynaud’s standard 2025 Topps rookie card, including $0.99 and $1.00 sales in April, underscoring the gap between common base issues and scarcer inserts or parallels. (sportscardinvestor.com) ### Why did collectors focus on Topps Midnight and one-of-one autos? An eBay listing updated on May 8 describes a “2025-26 Topps Midnight Sun Black Light” Maxime Raynaud rookie on-card autograph as a one-of-one. The item specifics identify it as a “1-of-1,” “Rookie,” and “Autograph,” the combination that often draws outsized attention in basketball-card markets because there is only one copy of that parallel. (sportscardspro.com) Collectors on X paired those auction screenshots with clips and card pulls, helping turn a late-season stat line into a broader rookie-market discussion. The available public pricing data in search results is stronger for base cards than for private or still-open auctions, so claims of larger spikes are easier to verify for lower-end cards than for unique one-of-one items. (ebay.com) ### How much of this is about Raynaud the player, not just Raynaud the card? Sacramento’s June 26, 2025 draft release said Raynaud was the only Division I player in his final college season to average at least 20.0 points and 10.0 rebounds. NBA.com lists him as an NBA Rookie of the Month winner, adding another official marker to his first pro season. Hoops Rumors, citing an interview with Andscape, said on May 8 that Kings general manager Scott Perry discussed the club’s young roster and called the team’s build a long-term project. (sportscardinvestor.com) Perry said Sacramento was “trying to add more young talent to the roster” and develop it, a framework that places Raynaud among the players the franchise is evaluating as it heads into the offseason. ### Where can readers watch the next phase of the story? (nba.com) NBA.com’s player page, StatMuse game logs, NBA Top Shot’s Raynaud moment page and card-market trackers such as Sports Card Investor and SportsCardsPro are the clearest public places to monitor the next move. Sacramento’s offseason, including draft and roster decisions, will determine whether Raynaud’s April scoring burst remains a late-season footnote or becomes part of a larger role entering 2026-27. (hoopsrumors.com) (nba.com)