Flair was Fleer’s premium, high-end brand — not a separate company, but the upscale line Fleer used to push production quality far beyond its base sets. The 1995–96 Flair release came in thick two-piece ‘hardpacks’ with etched-foil fronts, and its marquee insert was Hot Numbers, a 15-card set celebrating the league’s most prolific scorers. The card is a true lenticular piece: Jordan and the swirling field of numbers behind him are printed so that the image shifts and animates as you tilt the card left and right — the photograph and the floating ‘hot numbers’ appear to move and change depth with the viewing angle.

It is a card a flat scan genuinely cannot capture; it has to be seen in hand. Jordan is card #4 in the set, and the design is built around his scoring: the back notes his record 32.2 points-per-game career average, his seven scoring titles, three MVPs, and his run of consecutive Finals MVP awards, all set against the same colorful numbers motif that makes the reverse as vivid as the front. Unlike most of the foil and holographic inserts of the era, Hot Numbers grades unusually well — the gem rate here is 27.27 percent, far higher than its contemporaries — so while the PSA 10 population is comparatively high at 249, that is precisely what makes it one of the most liquid and consistently demanded Jordan inserts of the decade. Even as a higher-population card, its sales have climbed steadily, a sign of how deep the demand runs.