2007-08 Artifacts Relics - Possible Source Material?

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2007-08 Artifacts Relics - Possible Source Material?

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Inspired by a recent card seen in a WaxMuseum video (2007-08 UD Artifacts, Divisional artifacts, Walt Frazier relic noted to be sourced from an All-Star Game.
It made me curious, what other relics in this set contain an All-Star game relic?. Other than a couple of Rookie Challenge pieces, Rashard Lewis was the only other one.

Rashard Lewis had only been in 1 ASG prior to 2008, so that means this would have been from the 2005 ASG.
I found 2 photos from the event. 1 in his jersey, and 1 in his warm up. Based on the swatches seen on ebay (2 Green/Black? and 2 white) (no prime variations found) it appears that both the warm-up and the jersey were used. No specification was made on any of the backs. Photos attached below.
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Very cool, thanks for sharing. I'm somewhat surprised it's not more universal, but I'm sure for big sets like this they just compile together whatever they can. The All star game ones seem much cooler to me.
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SacKingsCards wrote: Fri May 02, 2025 10:42 am Very cool, thanks for sharing. I'm somewhat surprised it's not more universal, but I'm sure for big sets like this they just compile together whatever they can. The All star game ones seem much cooler to me.
I didn't quite do a full deep dive yet, but it appears there was another set floating around that used a bunch of all star warm ups as the card specified.
I find it really interesting that they decide to specify some of the times that the swatch is a warm up, where other times warm ups fall under the game used umbrella, especially for Upper Deck who typically has a good rep for these things. Or this could just be an honest mistake. Hopefully some prime pieces show up one day, might shed some more light on the matter
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I think it's also likely it could've been a warmup from one of the events he was in at All-Star weekend. While UD did a good job at labeling, they sometimes mixed a few of the details up. There's a copy of the /10 listing in COMC sold listings, but it doesn't look like a prime piece. There might not be many helpful clues out there.
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