LeBron James just completed his first year with the Miami Heat after playing his first seven seasons with his home town Cleveland Cavaliers. At the beginning of the 2010-11 NBA season, Myself, like many other LeBron James rookie card collectors, were wondering just how the new shift to Miami would effect LeBron's rookie cards.

Why were we wondering this? Well, in Cleveland, LeBron was the main man! In Miami, he would be sharing the ball with Dwyane Wade and newly acquired Chris Bosh. So, LeBron James overall scoring should go down, right? Well, kind of. I just took a peek at LeBron's final numbers on the Pro Basketball Reference website for the 10-11 NBA season and although they were down a little, he still had a great scoring season.

LeBron James averaged 26.7 points per game in 2010-11. Not that much below what he averaged in 2009-10 at 29.7 per game. I was kind of surprised to see this stat. I thought his scoring would drop off quite a bit, but it didn't. So, what did this mean for LeBron James rookie cards? Not much as they were, and still are, selling pretty well on eBay.

Below are a few prices paid for LeBron James rookie cards on eBay.

2003-04 LeBron James SPX jersey auto numbered to 750 sold for $1,076

2003-04 LeBron James Sweet Spot Shot Signatures auto sold for $1,035

2003-04 LeBron James Exquisite rookie logo 3-color patch auto numbered to 100 sold for $1,025

These are just a few examples of LeBron James rookie cards that have been sold on eBay. His rookie cards are not fetching huge prices like they used to, and that may be due to our struggling economy. Collectors seem to be buying the lower end cards, such as the LeBron James 2003-04 topps Chrome rookie card. I just checked the 'completed" listings on eBay and there were a total of 69 Topps Chrome LeBrons that were listed, and 48 of them were sold. If LeBron and the Heat go on and win the NBA title in 2010-11, look for his rookies to take a spike up in price. But, they have to get by Derrick Rose and the Bulls first, and that won't be easy.

With the NBA season so close to starting, look for LeBron's rookie cards to start heating up again as he begins another assault on NBA defenses in 2009-10.

LeBron's rookie cards can be found in most of the 2003-04 basketball card issues. Upper Deck and Topps lead the way.

The premium rookie cards of King James are already very high in value and are out of reach for sports card collectors on a budget. Like his 2003-04 Upper Deck Exquisite rookie cards.

Of course, the 2003-04 sets offer some other nice rookie cards like Carmelo Anthony, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh and more. So you can't go wrong with any 2003-04 product.

LeBron is coming into the 09-10 season with huge career numbers. He has a career 27.5 scoring average per game. LeBron also has 12,993 career points with 3,159 assists. As well as 830 steals and 405 blocks.

Meanwhile, the Celtics are on a mission as they have a healthy Kevin Garnett again. Also, add in Ray Allen, Rajon Rondo and Glenn "BIG BABY" Davis, the Celtics are loaded and could reach the NBA Finals again this year.

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October 27, 2009-Well, Game #1 of the Cleveland Cavaliers' 2009-10 season is in the books. The Boston Celtics spoiled the party at Quicken Loans Arena by beating the Cavs 95-89.

The Celtics, as usual, had balance scoring from their lineup. Kevin Garnett looks healthy again and he scored 13 points. Paul Pierce added 23 points and Ray Allen 16. Also chipping in for the Celtics was the newly acquired Rasheed Wallace, who scored 12 points in his Boston debut.

LeBron James had 38 points for the Cavaliers and newly acquired Shaquille O'Neal added 10 points and 10 rebounds. The Cavaliers came so close to making the NBA Finals last year but they lost to the Orlando Magic. This season they will have an even tougher road to get there. Why? Because the Celtics are reloaded and if Kevin Garnett stays healthy all season, they should be the front runner to make the Finals. But like Doug Collins said tonight on the TNT broadcast, "Watch out for Orlando!".

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October 28, 2009-The Cavs were in Toronto to play the Raptors tonight. LeBron James had his 25th career triple-double with 23 points, 12 assists and 11 rebounds but the Toronto Raptors win the game, 101-91.

The Raptors were lead by Andrea Bargnani, who had 28 points. Chris Bosh added 21 points and Hedo Turkoglu had 12 points.

Shaquille O'Neal had 12 points for the Cavaliers and Mo Williams 16. The Cavs are now 0-2 on the young season.

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October 30, 2009-LeBron James and the Cavs were in Minnesota tonight to play the Timberwolves. The Cavs ended up beating the Minnesota Timberwolves 104-87 for their first win of the 2009 NBA season.

LeBron James scored 24 points for Cleveland and Mo Williams 17. Shaq wasn't very good as he only put in 6 points. The Timberwolves were lead by Jonny Flynn, who scored 17 points for Minnesota. Al Jefferson added 12. Well, we now know that the Cleveland Cavaliers won't go 0-82 this season.

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October 31, 2009-LeBron James only scored 14 points in tonight's 90-79 win over the Charlotte Bobcats. But he did dish out 9 assists as he got lots of help from his Cavs' teammates.

Mo Williams scored 24 points and Delonte West, making is 2009-10 season debut, scored 13. Zydrunas Ilgauskas added 10 points for the Cavaliers.

Not much scoring on Charlotte's side as they were lead by Gerald Wallace, who only scored 11 points and Raymond Felton added 10 in the Bobcats' loss.

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November 3, 2009-LeBron James and Shaq teamed up to bring the Cleveland Cavaliers back from an 18 point deficit at home against the Washington Wizards tonight. The Cavs ended up beating the Wizards 102-90. LeBron scored 27 points and Shaquille O'Neal had 21 as the Cavs won their third straight game.

Mo Williams scored 15 points for the Cavs and Daniel Gibson added 14. Mo Williams and Daniel Gibson combined to make 7 of 9 thee point shots. Gilbert Arenas and Caron Butler lead the Wizards scoring attack with 22 points each.

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November 5, 2009-The Cleveland Cavaliers suffered a tough 86-85 loss to the Chicago Bulls tonight at home. The game was being shown on TNT. LeBron James ended up with 25 points but failed to score as he drove to the basket. He was looking for a foul call with 0:02 seconds left but the ball went out of bounds off his hands. That sealed the win for the Bulls, as they in bounded the ball and let the clock run out.

Luol Deng lead the Bulls in scoring with 15 points and 7 boards. Derrick Rose had 14 points and 11 assists, and Joakim Noah added 7 points and 11 rebounds. As for Cleveland's scoring, Shaq had 14 points and 10 rebounds and Anderson Varejao had 12 and 13 boards. The Cavs are now 3-3 on the 2009-10 season.

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November 6, 2009-LeBron James loves to play the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden. King James put on show with 33 points and 9 assists as the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the New York Knicks 100-91.

Members of the 2009 World Series Champion New York Yankees were there in the crowd to watch LeBron. Alex Rodriguez, C.C. Sabathia, Mark Teixeira and Joba Chamberlain were at court side enjoying the game. The Knicks are playing without their best player Nate Robinson. David Lee is a good, solid player and he scored 21 points for New York and Larry Hughes had 18.

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