Teaser Gallery: Panini America Breaks Five Boxes of 2015-16 Gold Standard Basketball
The golden glow from last night's NBA All-Star 2016 remains radiant this morning, the result of another mesmerizing showcase by the game's greatest stars that provided ample heat in an otherwise frozen Toronto. Russell Westbrook scored 31 points en route to leading the Western Conference to a 196-173 victory, taking home his second straight MVP nod in the process. Paul…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Opens Early Boxes of National Treasures College
It's no secret that any product graced with the National Treasures name immediately raises expectations and anticipation. And so it is with Panini America's new National Treasures College release that arrives in hobby shops across North America on Wednesday. We spent some quality time over the last few weeks showcasing a little bit of everything the unique, multisport product has…
Gallery: Panini America Sneaks Peek Inside the New 2015 Duke University Card Set
Panini America has reunited some of the greatest athletes in Duke Blue Devils history for the company’s 2015 Duke University trading card set that is available now. The unique set features 50 base cards honoring the school’s most decorated athletes, alumni, athletic structures and traditions. The base set features Silver, Gold (numbered to 25) and Black (numbered to 10) parallels, as does…
Panini America Provides Detailed First Look at 2015-16 Revolution Basketball (Gallery)
You say you want a revolution? Well, you're about to get one. In late January, Panini America will introduce the all-new 2015-16 Revolution Basketball, a creative addition to the Panini America NBA portfolio that provides, according to the product's just-released solicitation material, "the wildest card set on the 2015-16 basketball calendar" and "an old-school pack-opening experience with eye-popping inserts and…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Breaks a Box of 2015 Contenders Draft Picks Basketball
In hobby shops across North America starting tomorrow, Panini America begins taking the NBA's greatest veteran stars and hottest rookies back to school with the highly anticipated 2015 Contenders Draft Picks Basketball, the company's first all-college basketball release that follows closely on the heels of its popular football counterpart that released earlier this year. 2015 Contenders Draft Picks Basketball benefits…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2015 Contenders Draft Picks Basketball
One week from today, Panini America's first standalone college basketball product -- 2015 Contenders Draft Picks Basketball -- will arrive in hobby shops across North America equipped with the requisite stable of collectible bells and whistles fans have come to expect from the iconic Contenders brand. In addition to taking the NBA's biggest current stars back to college, 2015 Contenders…
Panini America Provides Detailed First Look at 2015-16 NBA Hoops Basketball (Gallery)
While Panini America still has a few bombshell basketball releases still to come to help close out the 2014-15 NBA collecting season, an exciting new start to next season is right around the corner, too -- and will begin once again with the release of the company's iconic NBA Hoops brand. Due to arrive in hobby shops across North America…
Panini America Shares Sights (and Slams) of the 2015 NBA Rookie Photo Shoot
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. -- Karl-Anthony Towns, D'Angelo Russell, Jahlil Okafor and 34 other top picks from the 2015 NBA Draft descended upon the New York Knicks practice facility on Saturday to participate in the high-energy, high-yield, highly entertaining 2015 Panini America NBA Rookie Photo Shoot, slipping into their NBA uniforms to take pictures for the trading cards that will be collected for the rest…
As the 2015 NBA Rookie Photo Shoot Begins, New Court Kings, Prizm Ready for Signing
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- Later today in northern New Jersey, 39 of the NBA's top rookies -- including Karl-Anthony Towns, D'Angelo Russell, Jahlil Okafor, Kristaps Porzingis and more -- will begin three days of activities that will have a most profound impact on Panini America's 2015-16 NBA trading card season. Indeed, 2015 NBA Rookie Photo Shoot weekend officially tips off…
Panini America Peeks 2015 National VIP Set Featuring Bryant, Winston, Towns, More
Panini America officials today officially unveiled the details surrounding a special six-card set that will be distributed to registered show VIPs later this month in Chicago at the 2015 National Sports Collectors Convention. The multisport set will be distributed through a coupon inserted into each of the show’s VIP packages that must be presented at the Panini America booth. Featured in the set…