Pre-Orders Open for Final Wave of Exclusive ONE PIECE x NBA Collab Figures
Image by Charlotte DavisBandai has officially opened pre-orders for the final two figures in its One Piece x NBA MASTER STARS PIECE collection, with Portgas D. Ace joining the New York Knicks and Sabo teaming up with the Memphis Grizzlies as the ten-character lineup reaches completion.
The crossover between One Piece and the NBA was first announced in November 2025, combining characters from Eiichiro Oda’s long-running series with official teams from the world’s biggest professional basketball league.
The full MASTER STARS PIECE lineup was shown together at NBA HOUSE JAPAN earlier this year, revealing ten character and team pairings that Bandai has gradually opened for pre-orders in consecutive waves.
Ace and Sabo make a fitting pairing for the final release, with both characters sharing a deep connection to Luffy as his sworn brothers despite their stories taking them down very different paths.
Ace became one of the defining characters of One Piece through his role as the Whitebeard Pirates’ Second Division Commander and the events surrounding the Marineford War, while Sabo eventually resurfaced as the Revolutionary Army’s Chief of Staff after being presumed dead for much of Luffy’s childhood.
The “ONE PIECE × NBA MASTER STARS PIECE THE PORTGAS.D. ACE NEW YORK KNICKS,” priced at ¥12,100 (approx. $76 USD / £56 GBP), stands approximately 27 cm tall including its base and recreates Ace soaring toward the basket for a dunk while wearing the Knicks’ blue and orange uniform.
His airborne pose takes the basketball theme much further than simply placing Ace in a team jersey, adapting the original One Piece x NBA collaboration artwork into a full sculpt that captures him in the middle of a play.
The “ONE PIECE × NBA MASTER STARS PIECE THE SABO MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES,” also priced at ¥12,100 (approx. $76 USD / £56 GBP), measures approximately 19 cm tall with its base and instead shows Sabo dribbling in the Memphis Grizzlies uniform.
The lower dribbling stance gives Sabo a very different shape alongside Ace’s elevated dunk, while still following the collection’s approach of translating the poses from its original NBA collaboration artwork into three dimensions.
These final two figures finish a line-up that began with Gear 5 Luffy representing the Los Angeles Lakers and Enel representing the Oklahoma City Thunder, both of which were selected as the opening pair for the ten-figure series.
The second pair brought Red-Haired Shanks to the Chicago Bulls and Roronoa Zoro to the Boston Celtics, followed by Nami with the Denver Nuggets and Sanji with the Indiana Pacers.
Trafalgar Law and Yamato then formed the penultimate wave, with Law wearing the Golden State Warriors’ blue and gold colors while dribbling behind his back and Yamato representing the Milwaukee Bucks in a towering slam-dunk pose.
Those releases have been staggered across several months, with Luffy and Enel scheduled for October 2026, Shanks and Zoro following in November, Nami and Sanji in December, and Law and Yamato arriving in January 2027.
The wider One Piece x NBA partnership has also expanded far beyond the MASTER STARS PIECE series, producing S.H.Figuarts releases, Chopper plush toys, apparel, acrylic stands and other merchandise based around the same character and team combinations.
Pre-orders for the Ace and Sabo figures are now open through Premium Bandai Japan, with orders potentially closing early if the available production allocation is reached.
Both figures are scheduled to begin shipping in February 2027, officially completing the planned ten-character One Piece x NBA MASTER STARS PIECE collection.
Bandai has stated that the figures may be sold overseas in the future, although a dedicated Premium Bandai US
release has not yet been confirmed.
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