Steph Curry, Jose Abreu and More Highlight New Panini Rewards Update (Gallery)

This afternoon from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. CST, the Panini Rewards Website will be down for another routine inventory upgrade. When the site comes back up this evening, Panini Rewards visitors will notice a wealth of enticing new additions, including key autograph cards from the likes of Jose Abreu, Tre Mason, LaMarcus Aldridge, Kevin McHale and more, prime memorabilia…

Teaser Gallery: Panini America Breaks Early Boxes of 2014-15 Preferred Basketball

This is shaping up to be one monumental basketball week for Panini America, what with Wednesday's release of the highly anticipated 2014-15 Preferred Basketball setting the stage for Thursday's 2015 NBA Draft. Heck, the week even started with a huge hoops focus during this morning's sit-down signing session with Los Angeles Clippers superstar Chris Paul. Trust us, we'll have plenty…

Panini America Offers a Special Father’s Day Glimpse at 2014-15 Preferred Basketball

Just when you thought you'd seen your last pre-release peek at Panini America's upcoming 2014-15 Preferred Basketball, we thought we'd pay tribute to all those book-loving (and booklet-loving) fathers out there with one final Father's Day peek. We brought you Part One of our Preferred Booklet review last Sunday. Today, we're bringing you the cliff-hanger finale. In the gallery that…

Panini America Offers Inkling of Autographs to Come in 2014-15 Preferred Basketball

While the confetti's still wafting from the rafters of Golden State's riveting 2015 NBA Finals triumph over the Cleveland Cavaliers, the hobby fortunes of Warriors stars such as Stephen Curry, Andre Iguodala, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green and Harrison Barnes remain on a major ascent. And that scenario has created an opportunity for the unthinkable: 2014-15 Preferred Basketball -- releasing next Wednesday…

Championship Worthy: Panini America Eyes the Booklets in 2014-15 Preferred Basketball

Packout for Panini America's upcoming 2014-15 Preferred Basketball began in earnest Friday afternoon, officially triggering the countdown to the product's highly anticipated June 24 release. Since its introduction in 2011, the Preferred brand has become synonymous with "industry standard" in the realm of epic booklet card design -- but for the 2014-15 edition, Panini America's Creative and Product Development teams are…

Panini America’s Newest Autograph Arrivals Shed Light on Future Basketball Releases

Even now, as Panini America's 2014-15 Immaculate Basketball release continues blazing a super-premium trail throughout the hoops collecting universe, work inside Panini America HQ continues unabated on upcoming NBA blockbusters. In fact, a bevy of big-ticket autograph arrivals in recent days (from the likes of Kevin Durant, Andrew Wiggins, Shaquille O'Neal and more) has served to illuminate the imminent arrivals…

Which Do You Prefer? The Early Autograph Returns of 2014-15 Preferred Basketball

No matter how you prefer your NBA autographed trading cards, you can bet that Panini America's upcoming 2014-15 Preferred Basketball will have a little dose of on-card brilliance just for you. Unique die-cuts, fancy foils, signatures horizontally at the top, along the bottom, in the middle, and vertically along the right or left side of cards radically redesigned for 2014-15. But…

Panini America Offers Detailed First Look at 2014-15 Preferred Basketball (Gallery)

For the hardcore hoops collecting world anxiously awaiting Friday's release of 2014-15 Select Basketball, The Knight's Lance has something to help you pass the time: The world-premiere first look at 2014-15 Preferred Basketball. Annually one of basketball's most anticipated and adored brands, the Preferred franchise will boast a bolstered array of booklet cards and autograph inserts when it arrives in…