Panini America Delivers a Detailed First Look at the Upcoming 2019-20 Immaculate Basketball
Panini America officials recently sent out preliminary Product Information Solicitations for several exciting new products coming soon to a hobby shop or online retailer near you. Today, we’re sharing that same information with you here on The Knight’s Lance, this time featuring a bona fide juggernaut of a product: 2019-20 Immaculate Basketball. In the extensive product preview that follows, we’ll showcase a must-see…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2019-20 Spectra Basketball (90+ Sweet Images)
It's a made-up word, of course. But it's one that's so accurate nonetheless. "Spectracular." It's difficult to come up with a more apropos description for Panini America's fabulous Spectra Basketball franchise. It is, after all, just so darn "spectracular." It has been from the very beginning . . . and it's only aging more gracefully by the year. And in…
Panini America Sneaks a Peek at the Highly Anticipated 2019-20 Contenders Optic Basketball
Here's one surefire way you know that collector anticipation for Panini America's upcoming 2019-20 Contenders Optic Basketball is even higher than it has been for most of this season's other new releases (which is quite telling considering anticipation for just about every product has been off the charts): An Instagram post from a few weeks back offering a pre-ink peek…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2019-20 Noir Basketball (60+ Images)
Panini America's high-end hit parade known as 2019-20 Noir Basketball arrives in hobby shops across North America tomorrow boosted by the hot-heeled trail of the blazing "1st Off the Line" edition that disappeared quickly exactly one week ago. The hobby version promises just as many fireworks by delivering seven autograph or memorabilia cards per hobby box, on average. Noir Basketball…
Panini Peek: A Detailed First Look at the July-Releasing 2019-20 Chronicles Basketball
Panini America officials recently sent out preliminary Product Information Solicitations for several exciting new products coming soon enough to a hobby shop or online retailer near you. Today, we’re sharing that same information with you here on The Knight’s Lance, this time featuring the catch-all captivator known as Chronicles Basketball. In the extensive product preview that follows, we’ll showcase a must-see bevy…
Rui Hachimura Headlines Week 2 of Panini Blockchain’s NBA Digital Sneaker Series
Week 2 of Panini Blockchain's new Digital NBA Sneaker Series launched this morning with six new digital cards — all 1/1s — featuring facsimile autographs and prime sneaker swatches from 2019-20 NBA rookies Rui Hachimura, Kevin Porter Jr., Jaxson Hayes, Darius Bazley, Carsen Edwards and Nassir Little. The six new cards -- part of a 27-card set -- launched earlier…
Digital NBA Sneaker Signatures Step Foot into Panini Blockchain Arena Starting Monday
For the next five weeks starting Monday, Panini Blockchain will deliver a digital collection likely quite unlike anything you've seen before with the 27-card Digital NBA Sneaker Series. The digital cards -- all 1/1s -- feature facsimile autographs and prime sneaker swatches honoring some of the standout members of the 2019 NBA Draft Class, including Zion Williamson, Ja Morant, RJ…
Disco Derby: Panini America’s 2019-20 Select Basketball Hobby Hybrid Arrives with Exclusive Disco Parallels
By no means would it be a stretch to call Panini America's 2019-20 Select Basketball one of the hottest products of the entire release year. Bolstered by the spectacular 2019 NBA Draft Class, the trademark three-tiered base set and some of the most desirable Prizm parallels ever made, 2019-20 Select Basketball's hobby edition has spent the last few weeks absolutely…
Must-See First Look: Panini America Previews 2019-20 National Treasures Basketball
If you think National Treasures Basketball releases of the recent past have generated international feeding frenzies for the most drool-inducing Rookie Patch Autographs and Logoman 1/1s, well, you'd be right. But it's likely that nothing you've seen to date will match the hysteria sure to unfold in mid-April with the release of 2019-20 National Treasures Basketball. The mere thought of…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2019-20 Donruss Optic Basketball
There's a mesmerizing, mystical thing that happens when Panini America officials give any of their flagship Donruss products the Optichrome overhaul. Despite featuring virtually the same designs, players and aesthetic elements as the base-brand counterpart that releases earlier in the season, the Donruss Optic version always hits a bit . . . differently. It's more vibrant . . . and…