Panini Peek Preview Gallery: 2012-13 Totally Certified Basketball (8 Must-See Images)
In early November and following one season away, Totally Certified Basketball returns to the marketplace with a reloaded 2012-13 edition that should continue to elevate the status of a brand regarded by many collectors as the best new product of the year when it first launched during the 2010-11 season. Bolstered by a completely new -- but every-bit-as-mesmerizing -- micro-etched…
Panini America On Location: The 2012 NBA Rookie Transition Program (Gallery)
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- More than 75 of the most talented young basketball players on the planet -- rookies from the last two NBA Draft classes -- began gathering on the East Coast earlier this week to participate in the 2012 NBA Rookie Transition Program in advance of next week's 2012 NBA Rookie Photo Shoot. All the while, a healthy…
Panini America Shares Highlights from the First Box of 2012-13 NBA Hoops Basketball
I have a confession to make: The Panini America Marketing team didn't wait until its traditional taping of Panini Unwrapped -- like we normally do -- to open our first box of 2012-13 NBA Hoops. Like most basketball collectors, we simply couldn't wait. So when Humberto Percy dropped off the marketing allotment of Hoops boxes last night, it was too late…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2012-13 NBA Hoops Basketball (59 images)
Just for grins, let's take quick inventory of everything that next week's release of 2012-13 NBA Hoops Basketball, the first NBA product of the new season, has in store for collectors. A historic massive Double Rookie Class? Check. The first official Rookie Cards of Kyrie Irving, Kenneth Faried, Anthony Davis and so many other young superstars from the 2011 and 2012 NBA Draft…
Rookie Here, Rookie Here: Panini America Teases 2012-13 NBA Hoops Rookie Impact
In a groundbreaking -- history-making, even -- development that most collectors will agree is long overdue, the top rookies from the 2011-12 NBA season will finally appear in uniform on officially licensed NBA trading cards when Panini America releases 2012-13 NBA Hoops Basketball next month. For the record, the top rookies from the 2012-13 class also will make their trading…
Panini America Unveils 2012 National VIP Plans, Keeps Two Cards a Mystery
Panini America officials on Monday afternoon unveiled the details surrounding a special six-card set that will be distributed to registered VIPs later this month in Baltimore at the 2012 National Sports Collectors Convention. The set, styled after the legendary Diamond Kings art cards, will include Robert Griffin III, Andrew Luck, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Kyrie Irving. And in an exciting twist, two additional…
Panini Peek: 2012-13 Threads Basketball
As the abbreviated 2011-12 NBA season draws to a close with one of the most riveting NBA Finals in recent memory, Panini America has steadily kept one eye on returning to a full, Rookie Card-laden crop of products for the 2012-13 season. We've already previewed 2012-13 NBA Hoops and 2012-13 Prestige to much fanfare; today, we take a look at the…
Panini Peek: 2012-13 Prestige Basketball
The nontraditional nature of Panini America's 2011-12 NBA collecting season -- with its limited product roster and RC-less releases that accompanied the shortened season -- is swiftly paving the way for a more normal, incredibly stacked 2012-13 lineup. Last week we shared the first glimpses of 2012-13 NBA Hoops, the premiere product of the new season due out in August.…
Panini America Peeks 2012-13 NBA Hoops & Its Massive Double Rookie Card Crop
As the 2011-12 NBA season enters its final, championship-clinching weeks, last night's NBA Draft Lottery selection process unofficially signaled the international basketball focus ever so slightly shifting toward the 2012-13 NBA season. And nothing can usher in the start of next season quite like the new-card smell of the year's first NBA trading card release: 2012-13 NBA Hoops. (more…)
Panini America Offers a Sneak Peek at the New 2011-12 Past & Present Basketball
For most Panini Peek posts here on The Knight's Lance, we'd try to think of a few witty transitions that bridged us into the real meat of a new product preview. But the never-been-done-before 2011-12 Past & Present Basketball is far from your ordinary new release. It's a product with no road map and no legacy of predecessors to help shape…