Panini Blog Panini America Provides Detailed First Look at 2014-15 Luxe Basketball (Gallery)

If you’ve paid close attention to The Knight’s Lance or the Panini America Instagram feed in the last few weeks, you’ve no doubt seen subtle glimpses of something called 2014-15 Luxe Basketball. Today, you’re going to see a whole lot more. 2014-15 Luxe Basketball is a hits-only, high-end NBA creation that will hit hobby shops in mid July as one of the most limited products of the season.

Each four-card box will deliver three on-card autographs and one jumbo-prime memorabilia card; the product also will feature the first metal-bordered cards in Panini America’s history (Luxe Autographs). Every card produced for Luxe will be numbered to 99 or less and will include either an on-card autograph, a jumbo piece of memorabilia or both.


We’ll have plenty more to preview on 2014-15 Luxe Basketball in the coming days here on The Knight’s Lance. Until then, though, here’s a breakdown of additional highlights . . .

• Look for dynamic die-cut autographs featuring the NBA’s biggest stars.
• The Luxe Autographs insert features the first metal-bordered cards in Panini America’s history and on-card autographs from some of the game’s top rookies, current stars and all-time legends.
• The aptly named Memorabilia Autographs chase delivers some of the finest hard-signed memorabilia cards of the year and is paralleled by a Prime version that’s numbered to 25 or less.
• The Memorabilia Die-Cuts Prime insert boasts a rainbow-array of die-cut prime-memorabilia cards (Red, Blue, Gold and Black) numbered to as low as one.

And here are the images . . .

All information is accurate at the time of posting – content is subject to change. Card images are solely for the purpose of design display. Actual images used on cards to be determined.

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The metal bordered cards are a nice addition to card technology, but overall, the design seems tired opting to bring us two more silly shaped die-cuts.

4 cards per box at a price-point around $400 aud per box... not sure that's really what the market needed.

TBH, I think they are really missing out by not coming out with a 14-15 Crusade which has been super popular since forever.

Sheesh they're really pumping out the Autos now.

This set is what I mean by Panini overdoing the white background.

Those Auto Patches look good, but more Parallels, far out.

I think the patch auto cards look the same as the last two years Immac design.. more curved lines with colors in between...