San Antonio Spurs No. 6 in Ongoing 30 Weeks| 30 Teams NBA Countdown
The Spurs’ history is a chain of Hall of Famers and All-Stars that have collectively kept the franchise in the public eye since landing in San Antonio in 1973. That season, the team acquired George Gervin from the ABA Virginia Squires. The move started a trend that carries to this day. The Spurs, a small-market franchise adopted from a competitor…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Breaks Early Boxes of 2015-16 Totally Certified Basketball
Panini America is kicking off the new year with a monstrous bang on the new-release front as huge releases from three major sports arrive later this week. 2015 Contenders Football and the internationally aimed 2015-16 Totally Certified Basketball arrive on Wednesday. 2015 Select Soccer arrives on Friday. We've been doing our best over the last week or so to preview…
Inside Immaculate: Panini America Surveys More from 2013-14 Immaculate Basketball
As if collector anticipation for 2013-14 Immaculate Basketball wasn't heightened enough after this Tuesday's world-premiere unveiling of the product's revolutionary Sneak Peek insert, we're likely about to raise the interest level just a little bit more. In the gallery that follows, we deliver a new series of drool-inducing imagery, the remaining results of our trip last week to the Panini…
Inside NT: Eyeing the Autograph Excellence of 2013-14 National Treasures Basketball
Tomorrow, at long last, Panini America's 2013-14 National Treasures Basketball will arrive in hobby shops across North America, offering countless breathtaking reasons as to why it's still one of the most important high-end brands in hobby history. We've brought you many of those reasons in recent days right here on The Knight's Lance with a slew of saliva-starting galleries. Today,…
Panini America Offers Detailed First Look at 2013-14 Flawless Basketball (Gallery)
While an international basketball collecting audience counts down these final white-knuckle days until Wednesday's celebrated release of 2013-14 National Treasures Basketball, NT release week also means we're that much closer to the launch of Panini America's final two ballyhooed releases of the 2013-14 NBA collecting season: 2013-14 Immaculate Basketball and 2013-14 Flawless Basketball. We brought you a detailed early examination…
Inside NT: Legendary Logomen Add Luster to 2013-14 National Treasures Basketball
Logoman. Three syllables. One word. And the mere mention of it conjures up visions of collecting royalty. It's arguably the most in-demand prime piece in memorabilia card history, a most patriotic patch with a red, white and blue silhouetted player (Jerry West, of course) that commands instant attention, big bucks and the respect and every collector who sees it. Today,…