Panini signs John Wall to Exclusive Deal
WASHINGTON WIZARDS DRAFT PICK JOHN WALL SIGNS EXCLUSIVE NBA TRADING CARD AND MEMORABILIA DEAL WITH PANINI AMERICA
Arlington, Texas (August 18, 2010) – Panini America (www.paniniamerica.net) , a subsidiary of The Panini Group, the leading global publisher of sports and entertainment collectibles, has entered into an exclusive relationship with John Wall, the first overall pick in this year’s NBA Draft. The partnership with Panini America, the exclusive trading card and sticker licensee of the NBA, marks Wall’s first in the collectibles category. Read more
Upper Deck supports Hobby with Volunteer Alliance
Last month Upper Deck unveiled an exciting new initiative designed to further engage the company’s loyal collector base. The “Upper Deck Volunteer Alliance” is a program free of charge that’s open to collectors from around the world that enables them to earn Upper Deck merchandise simply by helping the company promote the hobby. Upper Deck has been pleasantly surprised by the response it has gotten from collectors looking to help share the fun of collecting trading cards. Read more
National Treasures Basketball First Look
Last summer at the National we spoke to Panini and one of the biggest questions we asked was about National Treasures Basketball. The answer we recieved about it was that Panini would not be making National Treasures in 2010 because they did not feel they had the inventory in order to build the product at the value they wanted to deliver. But this week images were released of 2010 National Treasures, and we wanted to show them and let you decide if they deliver a product worthy of the National Treasures name.
2010 Absolute NBA from Panini is live
Panini Absolute Basketball is Live today. Here’s a quick look at the highlights, we should hopefully have a slide show on this soon as well.
Pack SRP: $40.00
Configuration: 4 cards, 4 packs, 9 boxes
PER BOX ITEMS
4 Autograph and Memorabilia Cards
1 Parallel
1 Rookie Read more
Upcoming Panini Basketball Preview Images
Phil Mason has been doing a great job updating his blog with images that have been released of the newest Panini Products including Leaf Limited Basketball and Contenders NBA. We wanted to share these images with our readers as well, and we will have Scott Prusha from Panini on The Card Podcast this afternoon to talk about all their upcoming NBA and NFL releases.
2009 Panini Basketball Preview
In just a few weeks the base product of Panini Basketball releases. This should be a great product for a team collector. Everyone in the NBA should be featured in this product from what I heard at the National. It should be the most expansive checklist of any of the Panini sets and includes highlights such as the “Next Day” authentic ON CARD signed rookies of the top players from last years NBA Draft.
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More Exquisite 2009 Basketball Images
This stuff just looks crazy. Upper Deck is going all out for the final product for NBA for them much like Topps did in 2009 NBA. Check out the drool worthy images that Upper Deck shared with their Facebook page.
2009 Exquisite Basketball Preview
Upper Deck released some images of the surprise release of the 2009 Exquisite Basketball release. It should include some superstars as Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Sydney Crosby, and Larry Bird. Upper Deck has gone back to some classic Exquisite designs such as the 2003-2004 Lebron James Rookie year Exquisite set.
2009 Prominent Cuts First Images
Is this the future of Upper Deck baseball and Basketball? Upper Deck has released images of 2009 Prominent Cuts featuring politicians, MMA Superstars, and UD Exclusives like Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan and others.
2009 Topps Basketball images
We got a box of 2009 Topps NBA Basketball to review this week, and I have to say as a base product as an entry for collectors I loved this product. Unfortunately this will be one of, if not the last NBA product from Topps in the near future. Panini had the bar raised for base cards from Topps on this one.
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Topps sued over NBA autographs
Saw this story today at this link and it has been all over the net being discussed. Details are sparse so far, but what I have got out of a few friends of mine was that Topps did in fact pay players for autographs last year. They did not get paid for the autographs that Topps could not use due to the NBA contract going to Panini. This could potentially be a huge story over the next few months.