What are NFTs? A guide to understanding Digital Collectibles on the Blockchain
This term has been a topic all around the internet for the last couple of years, but so many don't quite understand exactly, "What are NFT's" and how are they collectible? In this article we will help simply by explaining "what are NFT's". To start, NFT is an acronym for "Non-Fungible Tokens". Sounds techy, right? To break that down these…
Stick with Math: Productive Ways to Use the Official NBA Sticker & Card Collection when You’re Stuck at Home
Although the word "collection" is a big part of Panini America's Official 2019-20 NBA Sticker & Card Collection, there's plenty more to do with it than just collect it. In fact, with just a little guidance and some free time, it can serve as a valuable and entertaining educational resource. And since we all seem to have more than our…
Sticking Points: Panini America Explores the Official 2019-20 NBA Sticker & Card Collection
In what has quickly become an NBA season quite unlike any other, it seems fitting now that Panini America officials delivered for the 2019-20 season an Official NBA Sticker Collection literally quite unlike any other. This season, for the first time, Panini America introduced a traditional trading card element to the annually popular NBA Sticker Collection, following in the successful…
Panini America Releases Statement on the Passing of Los Angeles Lakers Legend and Company Ambassador Kobe Bryant
IRVING, Texas (January 27, 2020) – Panini America officials, like the rest of the world, are devastated by Sunday’s news of the passing of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others as the result of a helicopter crash. The company has maintained an exclusive relationship with the Los Angeles Lakers legend since 2009, when it made Bryant its global…
Zion Williamson, Ja Morant, RJ Barrett and More Headline 2019 Contenders Draft Picks Basketball
In the interest of time (and playing catch-up), we’re dedicating today here at The Knight’s Lance to previewing, in rapid-fire fashion, the newest products that have been solicited by the Panini America sales team in recent weeks — a fresh batch of product previews that includes 2019 Absolute Football, 2019 Spectra Football, 2019 XR Football, 2018-19 Immaculate Basketball, 2019 Contenders Draft Picks Basketball, 2019-20 Prizm English Premier League Soccer and more.…
The Los Angeles Lakers are No. 1 in Ongoing 30 Weeks | 30 Teams NBA Countdown
The Los Angeles Lakers come in at No. 1 in the Panini America 30 Teams/30 Weeks NBA countdown to the most collectible NBA teams of all-time. Glamour, flash and winning. Those are the staples of the Los Angeles Lakers through the decades. It’s no coincidence that some of the most iconic players in the game’s history have donned the purple…
Boston Celtics No. 2 in Ongoing 30 Weeks| 30 Teams NBA Countdown
Banners. When it comes to the Celtics’ legacy, the discussion centers on banners. The franchise hangs 17 championship banners in the rafters of TD Garden. The most dominant runs in league history came through Boston, including winning 11 titles in a 13-year span starting in 1956-57. They also two championships in three seasons in the 1970s and three in a…
Chicago Bulls No. 4 in Ongoing 30 Weeks| 30 Teams NBA Countdown
Chicago dominated the 1990s, winning six championships. The franchise reached the mountaintop in 1991 by ending two dynasties. First, the Bulls broke through the Pistons in a four-game sweep in the Eastern Conference Finals, which ended the Bad Boys Era. Next, Chicago dismantled the Lakers in five games, which ended Magic Johnson’s run as the face of the league. Be…
Houston Rockets No. 5 in Ongoing 30 Weeks| 30 Teams NBA Countdown
The expression, “lightning never strikes twice in the same location” doesn’t apply to Houston. Some of the game’s greatest pillars have donned the Rockets’ logo (in San Diego in 1967-71 before moving to south Texas). It started with Hall of Fame center Elvin Hayes, whom the franchise drafted in 1968 while still based in San Diego. In 1984, Houston won…
San Antonio Spurs No. 6 in Ongoing 30 Weeks| 30 Teams NBA Countdown
The Spurs’ history is a chain of Hall of Famers and All-Stars that have collectively kept the franchise in the public eye since landing in San Antonio in 1973. That season, the team acquired George Gervin from the ABA Virginia Squires. The move started a trend that carries to this day. The Spurs, a small-market franchise adopted from a competitor…