A Panini HRX Video Exclusive: Unwrapping 2012-13 Immaculate Basketball (Contest)
In the event that you missed yesterday's Scavenger Hunt for a chance to win a box of the scorching new 2012-13 Immaculate Basketball, Panini America is giving you another chance to win a box right now. And all you have to do to be eligible to win is something you'd probably do anyway: Watch the Immaculate Panini Unwrapped episode and…
Find the Hidden Panini America Knight and You Could Win a Box of Immaculate!
The release earlier today of Panini America's 2012-13 Immaculate Basketball has been met with all the pomp, circumstance and buzz that you'd expect from one of the most anticipated products of the year. From feverish Twitter chatter to seemingly unending message board threads to eye-popping opening bids, it's safe to say that Immaculate has made an immediate impact. To help…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Breaks Two Tins of 2012-13 Immaculate Basketball
Simply, I can't think of a better way to return to the office following an eventful and productive four days at the 2013 Toronto Fall Expo than to be greeted by the first live boxes of 2012-13 Immaculate Basketball. After months of appetite-whetting wonderment, release week finally has arrived -- a pivotal moment that became abundantly clear as soon as…
Panini America Takes One More Pre-Launch Look at 2012-13 Immaculate Basketball
With pre-release anticipation for 2012-13 Immaculate Basketball reaching insanely high levels thanks to a few juicy galleries right here on The Knight's Lance in the last few days, we want to offer one more preview of some of Immaculate's majestic memorabilia cards before the product goes live on Wednesday. Today, we take a look at more must-see specimens from the Insignia,…
The Immaculate Inspection: Panini America Peeks More 2012-13 Immaculate Basketball
The buzz from yesterday's first extended post-packout peek at 2012-13 Immaculate Basketball is still being felt all the way up here in Toronto, where several members of the Panini America team are on site at the 2013 Toronto Fall Expo. And while we're ready for a massive Saturday full of wrapper-redemptions, Redemption Trade-Up exchanges, Panini VIP Party qualifiers and more,…
Inside Immaculate: Panini America Readies 2012-13 Immaculate Basketball for Release
Really, it's hard to fathom -- given the extraordinary success and mainstream media coverage of Panini America's 2012-13 Flawless Basketball -- that another 2012-13 NBA product could generate so much intense anticipation and pre-release buzz so soon on the heels of the still-blazing Flawless fire. But from the very beginning, it was obvious that 2012-13 Immaculate Basketball was no ordinary…
Panini America Provides One More Glowing Glimpse at 2012-13 Immaculate Basketball
Even as Panini America's spectacular 2012-13 Flawless Basketball is busy setting the collectibles world ablaze and raising the bar on high-end hoops releases, company officials are hard at work putting the finishing touches on the final release of the 2012-13 NBA collecting season: 2012-13 Immaculate Basketball. Over the last few weeks, we've started pulling the curtain back ever so slightly…
Panini America Peeks New Autographs from Immaculate, Dominion, Contenders, More
I love this time of year inside Panini America HQ. With all four major sports in play, the levels of excitement, intrigue, production and entertainment are at goose-bump-inducing, don't-blink-or-you'll-miss-a-lot levels. As an example, we submit just some of our most recent on-card-autograph arrivals. In just the last few days alone, we've been on the receiving end of future collection-makers from…
A Kobe Bryant Immaculate Primer: Peeking the Superstar’s Stunning New Arrivals
As the collecting world anxiously awaits the arrival of Panini America's powder-keg conclusion to the 2012-13 NBA collecting season (first with the release of Flawless Basketball next Friday followed a few weeks later by Immaculate Basketball), the product developments for those two releases keep getting better and better. Late last week, Panini Authentic's Brian Bayne traveled to Las Vegas for…
Signs of Immaculate: Peeking Newest Autos from 2012-13 Immaculate Basketball
No one will ever accuse Panini America Brand Director Karvin Cheung of being anything less than hands-on with his products. True story: Cheung spent so much time in the Panini America memorabilia vault cutting game-worn NBA jerseys for 2012-13 Immaculate Basketball that he earned the nickname "Karvin Scissorhands." (For the record, NHL Brand Manager Chris Barr did the same for 2012-13…