Panini America Teams Up with Los Angeles Lakers for Special Trading Card Set
The Los Angeles Lakers took on the Chicago Bulls last night at Staples Center and fans were treated to a double over-time thriller. While the home team walked away with a victory, Lakers fans scored one for themselves in the form of a custom set of Panini America trading cards. Players included in the special set, which is detailed in the…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Cracks Two Early Boxes of 2013-14 Crusade Basketball
The Monday of any Panini America release week can be a fairly feverish time around these parts -- and when we've got two products releasing in the same week, well, things tend to be ratcheted up even higher. That's certainly the case this week as both 2014 Prizm Baseball and 2013-14 Crusade Basketball are set to go live on Wednesday.…
Titanic Tease: Panini America Takes Sunday Sneak Peek at 2013-14 Titanium Basketball
The history-making first installment of Titanium Basketball is now less than one week from release and it's safe to assume that Panini America officials have taken the perennial hockey staple and equipped it for immediate success on the hard wood. Boasting a wealth of sick patches, Hot Boxes and some of the lowest-numbered Rookie Cards in NBA collecting history, 2013-14…
Panini America Provides “Patchtastic” Peek at 2013-14 Gold Standard Basketball
The Panini America NBA team was hard at work over the weekend putting the finishing touches on packout for 2013-14 Gold Standard Basketball. As a result, my email inbox received a welcome dose of images from NBA Assistant Brand Manager Cory Hollingsworth, who was nice enough to share some flat-out sick images of a few patch cards that were randomly…
Panini America Provides a Visual Update on 2012-13 Gold Standard Basketball (Gallery)
As we sit here on the cusp of Sunday's pivotal Game 5 in the 2013 NBA Finals, with the Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs deadlocked at two games apiece in their quest for the gold, now seemed like an appropriate time to show off some of the most recent arrivals planned for Panini America's upcoming 2012-13 Gold Standard Basketball.…
A Panini Unwrapped World Premiere Video: 2011-12 NBA Hoops Basketball
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpcMQsVT_eY&w=585&h=327] The time has come. After seven long months away, NBA trading cards are back. Tomorrow in hobby shops around the country, collectors will get their first crack at Panini America's new 2011-12 lineup with the highly anticipated release of 2011-12 NBA Hoops Basketball, a throwback blockbuster of the highest order that delivers two autographs per box, inserts and…
Panini America, Kia Partner for Special Pack Giveaway at the 2012 NBA All-Star Game
Before the 18,000 or so fans who enter Orlando's Amway Center tomorrow night watch the 2012 NBA All-Star Game, they will get up close and personal with some of the game's top players thanks to special packs of 2011-12 NBA Hoops cards that they receive on their way in. The four-card packs, given out free through a unique partnership between…
“Linsanity” Effect Brings 2010-11 Prestige Basketball Printing Error Back to Light
The sudden onset of Linsanity has sent fans and collectors all over the globe scurrying back to last season's NBA-licensed products from Panini America looking for Jeremy Lin gems that as recently as last month were little more than hobby afterthoughts. And that international hunt has brought back to the surface a printing error that occurred in 2010-11 Prestige Basketball,…
Video & Gallery: Panini America Production Line Confidential with 2011-12 NBA Hoops
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpgZeswIuYk&w=590&h=330] Last Friday we tipped the weekend off right with a smashing sneak peek at 2011-12 NBA Hoops Basketball and promised an expanded examination of the first NBA card set since last September's release of 2010-11 Elite Black Box. Today we make good on that promise. Above you'll find a splendid and revealing video shot Friday at the Panini…
Panini America Behind the Scenes: Packing out 2011-12 NBA Hoops Basketball
For those countless passionate collectors out there who've waited way too long for some new NBA trading cards to consume, we've got terrific news: Panini America's 2011-12 NBA Hoops Basketball is coming -- and it is spectacular. That's my quick assessment of the product after spending most of the morning with Keith Hower and Wes Elliott -- two of Panini America's…