Every rung of the Luka Doncic debut ticket price ladder, from $41 to $2,613

Ask what a Luka Doncic debut ticket price is and the honest answer is a ladder, not a number. PSA catalogues five separate Doncic debuts: the preseason debut (29 September 2018, Mavericks 116 Beijing Ducks 63), the NBA debut (17 October 2018 in Phoenix, Suns 121 Mavericks 100), the home debut (20 October 2018, Mavericks 140 Timberwolves 136), the All-Star debut (16 February 2020) and the Lakers debut (10 February 2025). This report covers 25 graded single-ticket sales across all five, from 13 March 2022 to 19 June 2026, ranging $41.00 to $2,613.24 with a $180.00 median. Multi-item and collection lots are excluded from every price figure, including a five-ticket EuroBasket set at $1,830 and a rookie-season booklet at $305, and the one ungraded lot is quoted separately rather than counted in the graded sample. Auction titles get grades wrong, so every grade printed here was re-read from the PSA cert itself. Population counts are a live PSA reading as of 14 August 2026.

Authentic, the crowded bottom rung

34 of the 130 unsigned 2018 Dallas debut fulls carry no number at all. Authentic is what PSA assigns when a ticket cannot be graded on the usual scale, and on these two tickets it is tied with MINT 9 as the largest single rung. It is also the rung that actually trades: 12 of the 16 unsigned sales in the sample are Authentic slabs. They sold between $54.00 and $270.00, with a $150.00 median, and the top of that range is a preseason debut that made $270.00 in May 2022. Below the ladder entirely, an ungraded copy of the same preseason debut sold for $62.00 in December 2025 after 11 bids, which puts the Authentic median $88.00 above the only raw result on record.

NM-MT 8 and MINT 9, the middle of the ladder

The two middle rungs hold 59 of the 130 copies and have produced three sales between them. MINT 9 owns the highest unsigned result on either ticket, $390.00 in March 2022 for a preseason debut on 10 bids, and $250.10 in December 2023 for a home debut on 32 bids. Directly below it, NM-MT 8 has one result and it is the cheapest graded Doncic debut ticket ever sold: $41.00 on 19 June 2026, on six bids. That is also the most recent sale in the whole sample. Nothing at NM 7, EX-MT 6, VG-EX 4 or VG 3 has been offered at all, which is 21 copies with no public price of any kind.

GEM MT 10, a top rung worth $152.50

16 GEM MT 10s exist, five on the preseason debut and eleven on the home debut, and exactly one has been sold: $152.50 on 9 May 2025 after 13 bids. That is the finest grade PSA awards, on the ticket where a perfect copy is genuinely available, and it made less than five separate Authentic copies did in 2022. Set against the NM-MT 8 that sold thirteen months later, the top of the ladder is worth 3.7 times the rung two steps below it, which on this ticket is a difference of $111.50. The ladder exists. The whole of it fits inside $350. If you want the general case rather than this one ticket, we measured it across 17,161 sales in do ticket grades matter.

GEM MT 10 · $152.50

NM-MT 8 · $41.00

The real Luka Doncic debut ticket, a 24-copy ladder that stops at NM-MT 8

Everything above is one of the two Dallas tickets. The debut itself, Doncic's first NBA game on 17 October 2018 in Phoenix, barely exists. PSA catalogues it in four forms, the standard full, the box-office full, the stub and a seat locator, and across all four and both population indexes there are 24 graded copies in total, most of them on the Phoenix Suns full ticket set. 11 of the 24 are Authentic. The highest grade anywhere on this ticket is NM-MT 8, and there are two of them, both signed. No MINT 9 and no GEM MT 10 of Doncic's actual NBA debut has ever been graded, so the top two rungs of the ladder are not empty, they are unreachable. The rungs on either side of the debut were graded far more often, which is the pattern behind the preseason debut ticket.

One copy has sold in public, ever. On 27 June 2025 a full ticket dual-signed by Doncic and Deandre Ayton made $2,613.24 on 56 bids, the record for any Doncic debut ticket and more bids than any other Doncic ticket lot we hold a bid count for. It is graded BGS EX-MT 6 with Beckett 9 autographs, so it carries no PSA grade and sits outside this ladder. Every PSA-slabbed copy of the 17 October ticket is still in a collection. His European years are catalogued and scarcer still: the 2016 Real Madrid game PSA lists as his first EuroLeague start has three graded copies, his EuroLeague playoff debut has one, a PSA 2 carrying a qualifier, and neither has ever been offered at auction.

The rungs outside the scale, raw below and signed above

Two things move a Doncic debut ticket further than any grade does. The first is a signature. 17 signed copies of the two 2018 Dallas tickets sit in PSA's PSA/DNA index, a separate population from the 130 above, and they price on a different ladder: $840.00 in April 2023 for a signed NM 7 home debut, and $884.50 in June 2025 for a signed Authentic. Against the $150.00 unsigned Authentic median, a signed copy has sold for 5.6 to 5.9 times as much. Across the whole 25-sale sample the split is the same shape, a $780.00 median for the seven signed lots against $151.25 for the eighteen unsigned.

The second is timing, and the only clean measurement of it is a cert that sold twice. Two certs in the sample have a second sale. Cert 63771047, an Authentic preseason debut, went from $150.00 in July 2022 to $54.00 in January 2024, down 64% in 18 months. Cert 63701134, an Authentic All-Star debut, went the other way, from $86.40 in January 2024 to $175.00 on 2 February 2025, up 103%. That second date is the day the Lakers trade was made public. It is one ticket, not a trend, and the unsigned Dallas rungs did not follow: the two graded sales since are the $152.50 GEM MT 10 and the $41.00 NM-MT 8.

So the ladder, stated plainly. An unsigned 2018 Dallas debut full ticket is a $150 ticket at Authentic, has cleared $390 once at MINT 9, and is worth $152.50 at GEM MT 10 on the only such sale on record. Above that, a signature takes it to $840 or more, and the real 17 October debut, which has never been graded above NM-MT 8 and has sold once, takes it to $2,613.24. Grade decides which rung you are standing on. It does not decide much else. Whether the ticket is a full or a stub matters more on most tickets, which is the comparison in full ticket versus stub, and the same ladder for two other modern NBA debuts is in Zion Williamson and Giannis Antetokounmpo.