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.
D Wade signed Exclusive with Upper Deck
Upper Deck in another move to cement themselves as a major player in the memorabilia market with the NBA, even if they do not have a card license next year, announced that Dwyane Wade will be joining their stable of exclusive clients with Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Lebron James and Chris Paul. After the link is the press release and images of some signed jerseys from D-Wade.
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King James throne is with Upper Deck
Upper Deck is definitely putting out some great looking cards with their last licensed NBA releases. They have the exclusives on some of the NBA’s greatest players ever such as Michael Jordan, Kevin Garnett, Kobe Bryant and Lebron James and are taking advantage of that! We got in a press release from them on the new Lebron cards with some pretty nice inscriptions.
Topps Murad Review
Basketball enters the “Allen and Ginter” realm with 2008-2009 T-51 Murad. We got a box to review and had some fun with it. As always we will be giving away some and helping out set builders on this product. If you are one of our twitter followers then we will be giving a lot of the stuff from the 9 boxes we have opened in the last few days out! Keep reading for the full review!
NBA Signs Exclusively with Panini!!
The National Basketball Association (NBA) today announced a new exclusive, multiyear licensing agreement with The Panini Group Read more