BREAKING NEWS! UD & Topps Out:Panini offically In!
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Re: UD & Topps Out? Panini offically In!
This is huge news.......This from the Sports card file...
Panini Exclusive NBA Trading Card Partner in 2009-10
Jan 27, 2009
What a stunning turn of events. I knew there would be a big announcement made at the end of this month, but this is not the one I was expecting.
There have been overtures made by both Topps and Upper Deck during the past year to the NBA requesting a sole manufacturer license. These were prudent discussions to have given the state of the basketball card market. The NBA has granted their request by giving an exclusive license to Panini. Their sticker and trading card license will run through the 2012-2013 NBA season.
With the lackadaisical haze that the basketball market has existed in for many years, I think it will be very interesting to watch Panini’s entrance into the U.S. trading card market.
There will be a follow-up post on this topic reviewing the market performance of both Topps and Upper Deck in recent years and the reasons behind NBAP (NBA Properties) making this decision.
This is huge news.......This from the Sports card file...
Panini Exclusive NBA Trading Card Partner in 2009-10
Jan 27, 2009
What a stunning turn of events. I knew there would be a big announcement made at the end of this month, but this is not the one I was expecting.
There have been overtures made by both Topps and Upper Deck during the past year to the NBA requesting a sole manufacturer license. These were prudent discussions to have given the state of the basketball card market. The NBA has granted their request by giving an exclusive license to Panini. Their sticker and trading card license will run through the 2012-2013 NBA season.
With the lackadaisical haze that the basketball market has existed in for many years, I think it will be very interesting to watch Panini’s entrance into the U.S. trading card market.
There will be a follow-up post on this topic reviewing the market performance of both Topps and Upper Deck in recent years and the reasons behind NBAP (NBA Properties) making this decision.
WOW!!
That is huge news.
UD spent lots on it's Exclusive contracts........looks like they may lose big with these.
I will be sad to see no Exquisites
Be interested to see what Panini will bring. They may outsource to UD and Topps?????
Ersk
That is huge news.
UD spent lots on it's Exclusive contracts........looks like they may lose big with these.
I will be sad to see no Exquisites
Be interested to see what Panini will bring. They may outsource to UD and Topps?????
Ersk
Yay for saving money 
Dr. Curlytek
PhD in "Things and Stuff"
Well, this is something out of the blue (for me anyway). UD (and Topps) still hold those exclusive contracts, so we will likely see their rights transfered (ie. sold) to Panini or as mentioned above we could see outsourcing.
This could actually be a very good thing for the hobby. It could bring a fresh perspective and will hopefully result in a diminished supply of product. Or it could be the start of a hobby hibernation...which may be good or bad.
This could actually be a very good thing for the hobby. It could bring a fresh perspective and will hopefully result in a diminished supply of product. Or it could be the start of a hobby hibernation...which may be good or bad.
rhysjsolomon
@mojochasers
Oh man! That sux!!!
What happens for the BBA anthem now???
Shooby douby doo wop, yeah......Panini!!!!
Thats doesn't work!!! haha!
Very interesting read! It might be a good thing for the hobby, but I don't have a clue why it's happened!!
Be interesting to see more info in the coming weeks!!!
What happens for the BBA anthem now???
Shooby douby doo wop, yeah......Panini!!!!
Thats doesn't work!!! haha!
Very interesting read! It might be a good thing for the hobby, but I don't have a clue why it's happened!!
Be interesting to see more info in the coming weeks!!!
Agreed. Although I think it might be the shake-up the hobby needed. We all have been saying the way to get the value back into the hobby is to reduce product and basically slow things right down, and this might figure to do this. Could be the hobby re-birth
Well UD and topps have killed the hobby to the point where it is today imo so why not take charge and kill them off first.
Seems the offer was too good for the NBA to knock back and Stern is crapping himself about money and looking to dump jobs in the NBA's front office and owners and the NBA are saying a lockout is going to happen soon when players refuse to take a paycut when the old salary rules end.
Pannini have come a long way since 1990. Just think about, so have UD, topps and Fleer. Its the printing technology that progresses not the companies plan to produce the same stickers for the next 100 years.
I can see a lot of collectors turning away but I doubt all do. This is beyond a hobby for some and they need their busting and buying fix. Then there are team collectors like me and team loyalty come a million times before brand loyalty. I don't give a crap who makes it, its Celtics and licenced and if its value, looks good and appeals to me I'll buy it.
Hell I'll buy it just so we reduce all the Jordan clutter.
How a Jordan auto collector sees this as bad news is beyond me! This should HELP his auto price and its not like you can already own all his auto examples at the moment. You still have hundreds upon hundreds of them to chase.
Will be interesting to see how they handle the high end. Where they make a crap load of money and surely we will see an exquisite equivalent. We may even seen players sign that don't sign now or ones that UD don't give a crap about so we don't have the SAME players each year and Von Wafer autos out number James Posey ones.
We might also see better value boxes, better redemption and replacements, better ethics and some innovation from someone that doesn't rely on its hobby monopoly to sell cards.
Lets hope they have taken note of card prices, card trends and what collectors have had to say and we see the end of a lot of the garbage we see now put out by UD and topps......
Seems the offer was too good for the NBA to knock back and Stern is crapping himself about money and looking to dump jobs in the NBA's front office and owners and the NBA are saying a lockout is going to happen soon when players refuse to take a paycut when the old salary rules end.
Pannini have come a long way since 1990. Just think about, so have UD, topps and Fleer. Its the printing technology that progresses not the companies plan to produce the same stickers for the next 100 years.
I can see a lot of collectors turning away but I doubt all do. This is beyond a hobby for some and they need their busting and buying fix. Then there are team collectors like me and team loyalty come a million times before brand loyalty. I don't give a crap who makes it, its Celtics and licenced and if its value, looks good and appeals to me I'll buy it.
Hell I'll buy it just so we reduce all the Jordan clutter.
How a Jordan auto collector sees this as bad news is beyond me! This should HELP his auto price and its not like you can already own all his auto examples at the moment. You still have hundreds upon hundreds of them to chase.
Will be interesting to see how they handle the high end. Where they make a crap load of money and surely we will see an exquisite equivalent. We may even seen players sign that don't sign now or ones that UD don't give a crap about so we don't have the SAME players each year and Von Wafer autos out number James Posey ones.
We might also see better value boxes, better redemption and replacements, better ethics and some innovation from someone that doesn't rely on its hobby monopoly to sell cards.
Lets hope they have taken note of card prices, card trends and what collectors have had to say and we see the end of a lot of the garbage we see now put out by UD and topps......
All i really hope for is something fresh to come out of this. Some new ideas, new designs, something different that will hopefully keep as many people in the hobby as possible. Ã will be going into this with an open mind and hopefully the exclusively contracted players don't end up getting frozen out, these draw card players are required for the hobby to sell product.
If somehow they can release a product where pretty much all the stars who sign, sign together.... then wow!
If somehow they can release a product where pretty much all the stars who sign, sign together.... then wow!
ozballer23
#1 J.R. Smith Collector
When Bron says he wants to be the first Billionaire player I doubt he lets his card contract go and doesn't work out some sort of deal with Pannini.
We are talking about NBA players after all and greedy agents.
lol very true, the fact that MJ sits on the UD board, may mean he isn't signing for anyone else, thus his values increasing slightly. Hopefully we'll see some new creative ideas and card values increase again. Anyone got pics of any rescent Pannnini releases even from other sports?
ozballer23
#1 J.R. Smith Collector
So let me get this straight... does this mean that UD and Topps cannot make NBA cards at all now??
Well they can do the press pass/sage thing... no NBA logos...
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