Sorare's NBA draft player auction

Sorare unveils licensed NFTs for top NBA draft picks

Sorare, which makes popular blockchain-bsed sports games, said it will auction the first officially licensed non-fungible token (NFT) digital collectibles of the top five NBA draft picks.

NBA player Victor Wembanyama of the San Antonio Spurs will be part of the card auction. It might not sound like much, but Sorare has five million players in 180 countries for its sports games, and they pay money for these kinds of collectibles.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.