Panini America Offers Detailed First Look at 2015-16 Noir Basketball (Preview Gallery)
Panini America's high-end Noir Basketball brand made a somewhat mysterious debut on the NBA trading card landscape last season, hitting the market shrouded in an air of mystique. In pretty short order, though, collectors came to embrace the product as much for its sublime aesthetics as for its robust roster of autograph and memorabilia content. For the highly anticipated follow-up…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2015-16 Select Basketball (100+ Images)
Panini America's Select Basketball franchise enjoyed a vibrant resurgence during the 2014-15 NBA season thanks in large part to some magnificently tie-dyed Prizms and a value-delivered box-break proposition that had most experts calling it a front-runner for Product of the Year honors. Next Wednesday, the highly anticipated follow-up -- 2015-16 Select Basketball -- arrives in hobby shops across North America,…
Panini America Delivers Detailed First Look at 2015-16 Clear Vision Basketball (Gallery)
Here's one surefire way to know that a new trading card concept has found critical and commercial success: It follows suit in other sports. Such is the case with Panini America's popular, acetate-driven Clear Vision concept. It made a stirring debut in the NFL last season because it was clearly different -- by design -- and because it delivered a scarce…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2015-16 Donruss Basketball (100+ Pics)
Panini America's bustling, buzzing basketball week continues rolling at a fast-break pace right about now, what with yesterday's release of the popular 2015-16 Gold Standard Basketball still generating hobby-wide heat and a new-and-improved 2015-16 Donruss Basketball set to arrive in hobby shops across North America tomorrow. We've done our best to keep you updated on the manifold brilliance of the…
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…
Panini America Offers Detailed First Look at 2015-16 National Treasures Basketball
It's fitting, really, that we get our first official look at Panini America's upcoming 2015-16 National Treasures Basketball on the same day that NBA All-Star 2016 festivities tip off in Toronto. After all, National Treasures Basketball is an every-year All-Star; a no-doubt-about-it candidate for MVP (Most Valuable Product) honors every time it comes out. But when 2015-16 National Treasures Basketball…
Panini America Bringing Some Hobby Heat to Toronto for 2016 NBA All-Star Game
A quick check of this weekend's weather forecast in Toronto calls for a "high" temperature of 18 degrees (on Sunday) and a bone-jarring low of minus-4 degrees (on Saturday). Luckily for all of us, NBA All-Star 2016 is coming to town to heat things up just a little -- and Panini America will be there fanning the flames as part…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2015-16 Absolute Basketball (99 Pics)
While the sporting world's attention this week is firmly focused on San Francisco and the growing, golden allure of Sunday's Super Bowl 50 between the Carolina Panthers and the Denver Broncos, all of us here at Panini America still have one eye fixed on the upcoming release of 2015-16 Absolute Basketball. The venerable Absolute brand has been an NBA staple…
Panini America Provides Detailed First Look at 2015-16 Luxe Basketball (Preview Gallery)
The Luxe Basketball brand made an impressive debut near the tail end of the 2014-15 NBA product season as a new higher-end entry in the Panini America portfolio. The product delivered the company's first metal-bordered autograph cards and a roster rife with rich memorabilia content. In late March, 2015-16 Luxe Basketball will provide a fitting encore to last season's debut…
Panini America Identifies Short Prints, SSPs in 2015 Contenders Draft Picks Basketball
Seeing as how Panini America’s 2015 Contenders Draft Picks Basketball has enjoyed more than two months on the market, now’s probably a good time to pull the curtain back on the bevy of Short Prints and Super Short Prints permeating the set’s various autograph checklists. As you’ll see in the attachment below, we’ve kept it simple by breaking things down into…