The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2019-20 Contenders Basketball (100+ Pics)
Perhaps going forward, we should make every January 3 "National Contenders Day" here in the U.S.; a national collecting holiday of sorts celebrated by a wrapper-ripping frenzy featuring not one, but two cornerstone Contenders releases. Such is the case in hobby shops across North America today as both 2019 Contenders Football and 2019-20 Contenders Basketball go live. Two huge releases…
Panini America Provides a Detailed First Look at the Upcoming 2019-20 Select 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 and, over the course of the next few days, we’re sharing that same information with you here on The Knight’s Lance. Today, the focus is the upcoming 2019-20 Select Basketball. In the extensive product preview…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2019-20 Origins Basketball
Ever since it made a widely embraced cameo appearance in last season's 2018-19 Chronicles Basketball foretelling of the greatness to come, Origins Basketball has been on the collective radar of NBA collectors everywhere. Tomorrow, the highly anticipated inaugural edition of Origins Basketball as a standalone product arrives in hobby shops and on group-break sites across North America. To be sure,…
Panini Instant Hitting the Hardwood this Week with Unique Floorboard Signatures Line
Panini Instant earlier today launched a unique new line of autographed trading cards featuring autographs from the top rookies of the 2019 NBA Draft Class signed on authentic pieces of wooden floorboard. New Floorboard Signatures cards will be added to the site at 2 p.m. CST each day this week, beginning with today's selection that features Ja Morant, Jaxson Hayes,…
2019-20 Contenders Basketball FOTL Launches Tuesday Exclusively via iCollectPanini.com Dutch Auction
The special "1st Off The Line" edition of Panini America's highly anticipated 2019-20 Contenders Basketball launches Tuesday exclusively via iCollectPanini.com Dutch Auction. For those who got to witness the excitement of the first Dutch Auction with 2019-20 Prizm Basketball, well, it's about to go down again. For just the second time in company history, Panini America officials are utilizing the…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2019-20 Donruss Basketball
Last week's arrival of Panini America's 2019-20 Prizm Basketball was so much more than just a new-product release. It tipped off an international ripping frenzy that's been going seemingly nonstop in mass retail, hobby and group-breaking circles ever since. And while that phenomenon is sure to continue for the next several weeks, there's another new NBA product set to arrive…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Breaks Early Boxes of 2019-20 Prizm Basketball
It is, by no means, a stretch to call Panini America's 2019-20 Prizm Basketball one of the most anticipated sports card releases of the last decade. It's already breaking sales records at mass retail and the rabid excitement surrounding tomorrow's national hobby release is undeniable. It's a perfect storm of sorts featuring a star-studded NBA Draft class and a wildly…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2019-20 Absolute Memorabilia Basketball
Amid the excitement of last week's Thanksgiving and Black Friday festivities, we managed to let 2019-20 Absolute Memorabilia Basketball release without giving it a proper QC Gallery introduction. So we're kicking off another jam-packed new-release week by taking a quick look back, so to speak, at a product that launched last week. Absolute Memorabilia Basketball is a perennial favorite among…
Everything You Need to Know About Panini America’s Upcoming Dutch Auction
Panini America will launch the highly anticipated 2019-20 Prizm Basketball 1st Off The Line Premium Edition on Cyber Monday morning exclusively on iCollectPanini.com using, for the first time, a unique Dutch Auction format. So, how does a Dutch Auction work? It's pretty simple really but just so everyone's on the same page, we'll provide the basic parameters. For the purposes…
Panini America Launching 2019-20 Prizm Basketball FOTL Premium Edition on Cyber Monday with Unique Dutch Auction Format
For all of us at Panini America and for basketball collectors across the globe, Cyber Monday 2019 promises to be a legitimate history-maker. That’s the day Panini America’s highly anticipated 2019-20 Prizm Basketball 1st Off The Line Premium Edition launches direct-to-consumer exclusively on iCollectPanini.com. That fact alone is worthy of industry-wide headlines. But, wait . . . there’s more. For the…