Golden Glimpse: Panini America Peeks New Ink in 2012-13 Gold Standard Basketball
When it comes to the heart of the 2012-13 NBA collecting season, well, we're smack dab in the middle of it right now. Past & Present released last week, with both Momentum and Brilliance coming hot on its heels. After that? None other than perennial product-of-the-year front-runner Gold Standard. Over the next several days, we'll share several captivating looks at…
Panini America, Taco Bell Team Up for Tasty 150-Card NBA Hoops Kid’s Meal Set
There's simply no way to overstate the manifold magnificence of Taco Bell's Doritos Locos Tacos. For my money, they represent arguably the most delectable development in recent culinary history. But no matter how compellingly consumable and overwhelmingly popular they've become (in original or new Cool Ranch form), they still may not be the most important factor driving kids and collectors…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2012-13 Select Basketball (Part One)
The future of Panini America's popular Prizm technology is now. Actually, it was first previewed last week inside the company's trademark Black Boxes distributed at the 2013 Industry Summit. The event-exclusive Green Prizm parallels teasing next Wednesday's release of 2012-13 Select Basketball have generated mad-money sales in the days since. A Damian Lillard numbered 1/10 sold for a staggering $1,200.…
Preferred Selections: Panini America Basks in the Brilliance of New Basketball Arrivals
For many higher-end hoops collectors, the arrival earlier this week of the quite affordable, quite entertaining 2012-13 Panini Basketball product began the unofficial countdown to two of Panini America's most-anticipated 2012-13 NBA products: Select and Preferred. We've shown you a few glimpses of the impending greatness that awaits collectors in those two products right here on The Knight's Lance in…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2012-13 Panini Basketball (74 Sweet Pics)
As far as dramatic, tide-turning declarations go, well, the one I'm about to make isn't. But after spending some serious alone time with contents of the recently completed Quality Control process for the new 2012-13 Panini Basketball, this is what I can say, beyond the shadow of a doubt: This might be my favorite NBA product of the season. The…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Breaks Early Box of the New 2012-13 Elite Basketball
At some point during the last five days, while many of us from Panini America were in Houston for 2013 NBA All-Star Weekend, the marketing allotment of 2012-13 Elite Basketball arrived safely and soundly, greeting us like a welcome-home beacon when we arrived back to the office this morning. Live in hobby stores tomorrow, the long-adored Elite brand returns to…
James Harden, Top Rookies Share Spotlight in Panini America’s 2013 NBA All-Star Vids
HOUSTON -- Whew! What a weekend that was. Over the course of an action-packed four days during the just-completed 2013 NBA All-Star Weekend, Panini America squeezed what seemed like a season's worth of highlights into a span of 96 hair-raising hours. The whirlwind began Thursday afternoon when Panini America brought Houston Rockets star James Harden to Houston Sports Connection for a…
Anthony Davis, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist Star on Panini America’s NBA All-Star Saturday
HOUSTON -- Two of the best young rookies in the NBA provided an abundance of electricity and star power on Saturday at the 2013 NBA All-Star Jam Session, as former Kentucky teammates Anthony Davis and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist took turns wowing basketball fans inside the Panini America booth. Davis, the No. 1 overall pick of the New Orleans Hornets in the 2012…
Panini America’s New Ink: Elite Basketball Inscriptions, National Treasures Baseball
You want to see something really cool? Well, good . . . because I have something really cool to show you. I just got back to my desk after spending the last 15 or 20 blissful minutes in the acquisitions vault perusing the newest on-card autograph arrivals that have hit Panini America HQ this week. I have seen -- more…
Eureka: 2012 Draft Class Redemptions from 2011-12 Gold Standard Basketball Arrive!
To truly appreciate the heavy-metal majesty that is the 2012 Draft Class Redemptions from 2011-12 Gold Standard Basketball, it helps to hold them in your hands. And in the next few days, patient collectors who've been waiting for the chance to do just that will finally be rewarded. Just this week, the finished cards -- weighty, wonderfully designed and hopefully…