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NBA Players Sue Over Being Traded

Posted Aug 28th 2009 1:40PM by TMZ Staff

NBA star Tracy McGrady's autograph is over 16x more valuable than fellow baller Deandre Jordan's -- this courtesy of a lawsuit filed against a trading card company.

Nine NBAers -- McGrady, Jordan, Brandon Roy, Derrick Rose, Russell Westbrook, D.J. Augustin, T.J. Ford, Antawn Jamison, Anthony Randolph and DeAndre Jordan -- are suing Topps, claiming they were all only partially paid for their autograph deals.

The most interesting part ... how much Topps paid per autograph.

McGrady -- $50
Rose -- $25
Roy -- $18
Westbrook -- $10
Jamison -- $10
Ausgustin -- $8
Randolph -- $7
Ford -- $6
Jordon -- $3

All nine combined are suing for $300,000.

Tags: lawsuit, nba, Stephon Marbury, StephonMarbury, topps, trading cards, TradingCards

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1. FIRST BIATCHES!!!
Yes I did it I'm the man wahoooo damn I’m good!
I got my cash money, my biatches, my big house, my wheels; I got everything! Top of the world, the winner takes it all, feels so good!

Posted at 2:25PM on Aug 28th 2009 by snakeman

2. WHO GIVES A RATS ASS?

Posted at 3:53PM on Aug 28th 2009 by impersonator

3. Do You Guys Proof Read At All ???????????????????

Posted at 3:58PM on Aug 28th 2009 by Captain Obvious

4. HAY WHORES!! IM THIRD

Posted at 4:46PM on Aug 28th 2009 by A Person

5. I saw Kevin Love and a bunch of other sports legends at a charity dinner last week.
http://blog.neurobrands.com/2009/08/20/harold-pump-foundation-part-2/

Posted at 4:47PM on Aug 28th 2009 by lazz

6. balls

Posted at 5:07PM on Aug 28th 2009 by balls

7. What, their multimillion dollar salaries aren't enough? They charge fans for autographs?

Maybe if they were literate and could do something aside from scrawling an X on a piece of paper...

Posted at 7:26PM on Aug 28th 2009 by rimman

8. Hey rimman, maybe they're just, i don't know, angry about a complete breach of contract. Topps said they would pay out and they didn't, the salary paid by the players' teams have nothing to do with this. It's not the players charging the fans for an autograph, rather the Topps corporation is commissioning the players to sign Topps brand cards and selling the product for their own profit.
And as for you comment about literacy, Brandon Roy at least graduated from the University of Washington in 4 years. Probably better than your whiny self.

Posted at 7:10PM on Aug 30th 2009 by RobDogg

9. The real issue here (not to sound overly nerdy) is that the topps company has lost its license to produce NBA cards to an Italian company named Panini.

I would bet the refusal to pay is tied to that License loss.

Posted at 11:33PM on Aug 28th 2009 by gilmore

10. Only $3 a signature? I'M OUTRAGED!!!

Posted at 6:44PM on Aug 29th 2009 by Archer

11. Hay....

Posted at 8:17AM on Aug 31st 2009 by Kenneth