High Risers was an insert in 1996–97 Topps Stadium Club, built around the league’s best aerial players — the men who rose above the rim. The card’s defining feature is its background, and it rewards a close look: behind Jordan is a foil, holographic rendering of a city skyline seen from ground level, as if you are standing at the base of skyscrapers and looking straight up. That upward, vertiginous perspective is the whole concept — ‘high risers,’ both the buildings and the player who climbs above everyone else, a fitting nod to Jordan’s Chicago.

The front pairs that mirrored cityscape with Jordan in the black pinstriped Bulls alternate, rising into his shot, the ‘HIGH RISERS’ logo ghosted across the top. The back captures the theme in words: an unforgettable image of Jordan sailing through the air with his tongue out, ‘claiming back air space from the seven-footers.’ It is card #HR14 in the set. As with most foil-front inserts of the era, the reflective surface scratches and shows print lines easily, which is why gem-mint copies are so scarce: of 558 graded across all grades, only 13 have reached PSA 10, a gem rate of 2.33 percent. It is a striking, low-population insert that rarely comes to market.