The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2017-18 Opulence Basketball (80+ Pics)
Panini America's new Opulence Basketball franchise arrives in hobby shops across North America on Friday ready for an inaugural run that's steeped in luxury. As we noted in our initial post announcing this product, Opulence's content delivers a best-of-both-worlds storyline detailing how the best parts of Gold Standard meld with the best parts of Preferred to create a completely new product. As you'll see in…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Opens Boxes of the New 2017-18 Vanguard Basketball
Panini America is keeping things hopping in the hobby during this four-day work week -- and especially today -- with the release of both 2018 Absolute Football and 2017-18 Vanguard Basketball. Although the products are quite different in terms of configuration and content, there's no denying the big-hit potential of both. You saw some of that yesterday in our Teaser…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2017-18 Vanguard Basketball (50+ Images)
Back in the day, when something called "Y2K" had a skittish nation on the edge of its proverbial seat, baseball, football and hockey collectors were treated to a short-lived new trading card creation known as Vanguard. It debuted for all three sports during the 2000 product season and struck a chord with many collectors because of its looks, its inserts,…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Opens Boxes of the Sold-Out 2017-18 Spectra Basketball
Panini America's 2017-18 Spectra Basketball released to a ravenous collecting appetite last Wednesday and wasted precious little time in resonating with collectors who favor the product for its colors, its content and its eclectic player selection. An annual late-season staple on the Panini America NBA product calendar, Spectra Basketball is once again equipped to impress this season. Last week we…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Breaks Four Boxes of 2017-18 Contenders Basketball
Today promises to be hoops heavy in hobby shops across North America as Panini America releases both 2017-18 Contenders Basketball and 2017-18 Prestige Basketball. We've provided Quality Control Gallery previews for both products in recent days here on The Knight's Lance as a means of broad introduction. Today, we're taking you directly to the box level with a few must-see…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Opens Three Boxes of the New 2017-18 Status Basketball
As we return from a busy Super Bowl week in Minneapolis intent on thawing out and quickly returning to our regularly scheduled work cycle, it occurred to us that The Knight’s Lance let a few traditional product-preview items slip — most notably Teaser Gallery preview posts for the two new products that released last week: 2017-18 Status Basketball and 2017 Vertex Football. Earlier today we began righting…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2017-18 Status Basketball (100+ Images)
One look at the base cards. That's all it takes to know that Panini America's new Status Basketball product, set to arrive in hobby shops across North America on Wednesday, is just a little more . . . edgy. There's just something about the way the rainbow holofoil combines with those circles and squares and hues to make each player…