Panini Blog New Year, New Autos: Panini America Starts 2015 with a Peek at New Basketball Ink

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First things first: Happy New Year! Here’s hoping you enjoyed a safe, fun start to 2015 and that you’re already on your way to making good on those New Year’s resolutions. But even if you’re not, there’s still 364 more days to ensure that they come to fruition. For our part here at The Knight’s Lance, we thought we’d tip off 2015 with the year’s first look at some of the newest NBA autographs that have arrived at Panini America HQ during the holiday season.

Showcased in the gallery below is the hard-signed handiwork from the game’s biggest stars and most promising rookies (including Kobe Bryant, Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry, John Wall, Bradley Beal, Marcus Smart and more) coming to upcoming Panini America NBA products such as 2014-15 Gold Standard Basketball, 2014-15 Select Basketball, 2014-15 Paramount Basketball and 2014-15 Immaculate Basketball. Also included? A little bit of hobby history in the form of the first certified autographs of Oklahoma City Thunder head coach and former Houston Rockets player Scott Brooks.


We’ll begin today’s must-see gallery with a look at some of the sweet Buyback autographs coming to 2014-15 Paramount Basketball. The eye candy gets only sweeter after that. Enjoy the gallery and stay tuned to The Knight’s Lance for additional coverage.

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[PistonsFan00]

this will only make Panini's collections more congested imo

 

[silvertapoutstar]

The buy backs are stupid, why.......

 

[ozballer23]

Not a fan of the buybacks, it's not like Panini have been around for that long.... more gimmicks...

 

[drobfan8]

Select is outstanding!

 

[wjrwebber]

http://paniniamerica.wordpress.com/...tarts-2015-with-a-peek-at-new-basketball-ink/

I like the buybacks they have included, nice change up. Also, the base Select auto looks nice, they just need to remove the amount of parallels...

 

[ozballer23]

already posted here http://www.ozcardtrader.com.au/comm...ek-at-new-basketball-ink.178246/#post-1539174

 

[GarnettFan4Life]

Buybacks look good - could be confusing though depending on how they authenticate it? any stamp on the back or anything?

already see heaps of in person auto's on ebay - makes the need for a checklist more important now!

 

[Verse1]

Not a fan of the buybacks, it's not like Panini have been around for that long.... more gimmicks...

I was just thinking this as I was scrolling through the pics. Buy backs from a year or 2 ago is ridiculous.

 

[Coopz05]

The buybacks are a good idea.

But;

1. They havent even used rare or high end cards... I mean c'mon kobe anthology base cards?
Theyre all low end base or low end $1 inserts.

2. As always, just by looking at the few pics they have shown, and Im sure theres more, theyre OVER doing it!

Why not only have 10-15 buybacks in the entire production run?

3/ theyre doing their trick of falsely making cards look rare. 1/3 KD auto, but theres prob 10x types of KD buybacks, that are all 1/1s, 1/3s, 1/5s... You do the math.

I can already see 2x different shaqs in those pics. A 1/1 and a 2/2...

When UD do buybacks they pick rare or very nostalgic cards, that everyone has a soft spot for.

Panini has, again, taken a good idea, and overdone it half ass'ed-ly.

 

[wjrwebber]

^The majority of Upper Decks early buybacks (pre 2005) were just base cards and most were numbered to less than 10. It wasn't until years later when they started doing memorabilia cards did you see those done as buybacks of and the numbering went up which made them not as 'valuable' in my books. I know in the 09/10 Exquisite, they used previous years of base cards and numbered some upwards of 30 in some instances I remember. Which makes me think they must held them back from packing, but none the less....

I guess we will have to see the checklist and how many are produced.

 

[Coopz05]

@wjrwebber do you think each buyback will be listed? Ive never actually checked with others

 

[wjrwebber]

@Coopz05 we can only hope. I wouldn't trust Beckett to get it right, but Panini have always provided complete lists one way or another an all other releases