The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2019-20 Contenders Basketball (100+ Pics)

Perhaps going forward, we should make every January 3 "National Contenders Day" here in the U.S.; a national collecting holiday of sorts celebrated by a wrapper-ripping frenzy featuring not one, but two cornerstone Contenders releases. Such is the case in hobby shops across North America today as both 2019 Contenders Football and 2019-20 Contenders Basketball go live. Two huge releases…

2019-20 Contenders Basketball FOTL Launches Tuesday Exclusively via iCollectPanini.com Dutch Auction

The special "1st Off The Line" edition of Panini America's highly anticipated 2019-20 Contenders Basketball launches Tuesday exclusively via iCollectPanini.com Dutch Auction. For those who got to witness the excitement of the first Dutch Auction with 2019-20 Prizm Basketball, well, it's about to go down again. For just the second time in company history, Panini America officials are utilizing the…

A Contenders to Remember: Zion, Ja, R.J. and More Headline Panini America’s Upcoming 2019-20 Contenders Basketball

This probably goes without saying . . . but we're going to say it anyway: The 2019 NBA Draft Class is the kind of otherworldly class that basketball collecting dreams are made of. It's the kind of class -- what with the likes of Zion Williamson, Ja Morant, R.J. Barrett, Rui Hachimura and more -- that can turn even a…