A Panini Unwrapped World Premiere Video: 2011-12 NBA Hoops Basketball

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpcMQsVT_eY&w=585&h=327] The time has come. After seven long months away, NBA trading cards are back. Tomorrow in hobby shops around the country, collectors will get their first crack at Panini America's new 2011-12 lineup with the highly anticipated release of 2011-12 NBA Hoops Basketball, a throwback blockbuster of the highest order that delivers two autographs per box, inserts and…

Video & Gallery: Panini America Production Line Confidential with 2011-12 NBA Hoops

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpgZeswIuYk&w=590&h=330] Last Friday we tipped the weekend off right with a smashing sneak peek at 2011-12 NBA Hoops Basketball and promised an expanded examination of the first NBA card set since last September's release of 2010-11 Elite Black Box. Today we make good on that promise. Above you'll find a splendid and revealing video shot Friday at the Panini…

Panini America Behind the Scenes: Packing out 2011-12 NBA Hoops Basketball

For those countless passionate collectors out there who've waited way too long for some new NBA trading cards to consume, we've got terrific news: Panini America's 2011-12 NBA Hoops Basketball is coming -- and it is spectacular. That's my quick assessment of the product after spending most of the morning with Keith Hower and Wes Elliott -- two of Panini America's…

‘A Night to Remember’ Checklist Selected; Collector Vote on Final Design Starts Now!

More than 1,300 votes later, the completely-collector-selected "A Night to Remember" insert slated for 2011-12 NBA Hoops finally has a checklist. The 20-card tribute to the greatest single-game records in NBA history, selected exclusively by The Knight's Lance visitors during a monthlong series of polls, is one step closer to completion. What we need now is a collector-approved design. (more…)

Your Insert Set in 2011-12 NBA Hoops Has a Theme . . . Now it Needs a Name

After two rounds of voting and almost three weeks, the collector-selected insert set that will appear in the late-September release of 2011-12 Panini NBA Hoops will honor . . . the league's most hallowed single-game records. That category narrowly edged out dunkers, unsung heroes and great rivalries in a hotly contested runoff vote conducted earlier this week. Now the momentum starts to build.…