The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2020-21 Noir Basketball

Panini America's popular Noir Basketball brand -- with its dark, sleek aesthetics, and calling-card Spotlight Signatures and Sneaker Spotlight inserts -- represents a bold breath of fresh air in the collecting universe every year. And tomorrow, the 2020-21 version arrives in hobby shops across North America ready to shake things up once again. On average, each hobby box of 2020-21…

The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2020-21 Impeccable Basketball

It's a high-end, heatwave kind of week here at Panini America, and not just because Texas temperatures are expected to hit the high 90s in the coming days. On Wednesday, the company's 2020-21 Impeccable Basketball arrives in hobby shops across North America packing its unique blend of super-premium content that includes on-card autographs, Metal cards and Precious Metal inserts. On…

Houston Rockets No. 5 in Ongoing 30 Weeks| 30 Teams NBA Countdown

The expression, “lightning never strikes twice in the same location” doesn’t apply to Houston. Some of the game’s greatest pillars have donned the Rockets’ logo (in San Diego in 1967-71 before moving to south Texas). It started with Hall of Fame center Elvin Hayes, whom the franchise drafted in 1968 while still based in San Diego. In 1984, Houston won…

Panini America Provides Detailed First Look at 2016-17 Aficionado Basketball (Gallery)

Panini America is breaking out a proud name from collecting's past and bringing it to basketball for the first time, providing hoops fans and hobbyists with the chance at a proper introduction to the uniqueness of the Aficionado brand. A baseball-only release that burst onto the scene with a one-season run in 1996, Aficionado stood out on the strength of…

Teaser Gallery: Panini America Breaks Early Boxes of 2016-17 Court Kings Basketball

Panini America's 2016-17 Court Kings Basketball arrives in hobby shops across North America on Friday and you can bet it will be basking in the trademark blend of vibrant colors, artistic nuance and NBA majesty that has served the product so well during a decorated run that started with the 2009-10 release. As you saw in yesterday's Quality Control Gallery,…

Panini America Delivers Detailed First Look at 2015-16 Complete Basketball (Gallery)

Panini America is getting back to the basics of basketball card collecting later this fall with 2015-16 Complete Basketball, a mainstream NBA release boasting a massive 330-card base set, tried-and-true, old-school collecting principles, a simple parallel structure, an inviting format and a handsome $1 pack price point. Each box of 2015-16 Complete Basketball (five cards per pack, 36 packs per…

Gala Gawking: Panini America Delivers Peek at 2014-15 Gala Basketball Base, Mem Cards

Thanks to a series of tantalizing teasers posted here on The Knight's Lance in the last month or so, you've likely seen enough of the brilliant on-card autographs coming to Panini America's international-only 2014-15 Gala Basketball to have a good understanding of what to expect from that aspect of the product. But trust us when we tell you: The stuff…

Panini America Provides Detailed First Look at 2014-15 Noir Basketball (Preview Gallery)

You likely first caught wind of Panini America's mysterious new Noir Basketball brand on Instagram. That's where we flashed initial glimpses of the high-end heat-maker in a signing-session recap collage featuring Los Angeles Clippers superstar Chris Paul. Not long after that we posted a few of Paul's 2014-15 Noir Basketball card images right here on The Knight's Lance -- and…
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