Court Gestures: Panini America’s Select and Preferred Products Begin to Take Shape

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Court Gestures: Panini America’s Select and Preferred Products Begin to Take Shape

Feb 6th 2013, 19:29

The Panini America hoops hobby headlines that began this morning with the revelation that 2012-13 Elite Basketball would include the company’s first Dwyane Wade autographs continue this afternoon with a rather seismic sneak peek at two upcoming juggernauts: 2012-13 Select Basketball and 2012-13 Preferred Basketball.
Both products are in various stages of the development cycle as we speak. The profoundly Prizmatic on-card autographs for Select Basketball are being returned to Panini America HQ at a rapid clip these days; Preferred’s Silhouettes, Panini’s Choice Awards and Preferred Signatures cards landed late yesterday afternoon, literally hot off the presses from the printing facility.

These and any other finished Select cards that arrive in the coming days will join their cardboard counterparts back at the production facility to await collation and packout. These Preferred beauties are being counted, cataloged and QC’d at this very minute before being shipped to their repsective NBA stars for signing.
Regardless of where they are in the process, they’re absolutely worth admiring. We’ll continue to provide updates on these products in the coming days and weeks right here on The Knight’s Lance, so stay tuned. Until then, though, feast on this eye candy . . .


Court Gestures: Panini America’s Select and Preferred Products Begin to Take Shape The Official Panini America Blog

[Jin]

One word... WOW

The Shaq with the Magic uni is just disgusting.
Also the Select autos look beautiful with the finish.

Hopefully a turnaround from the mediocre stuff Panini's been putting out (Contenders, Limited, etc.)

[WillC]

The Shaq Magic Silhouette is nice.

Overall, these are impressive cards by Panini's standards, even if I do feel like I've seen them all before.

[bdoody42]

There are some stunning cards in those pics!!!!

[bettydaw1970]

yep..the shaq silo is pretty darn nice...
he never had a limited logo..

[yaoming]

WoW!

Awesome Silhouette !

Those Prizm gold are with "on-card" auto
this will definitey beat the Prizm rookie refractor with sticker auto!

[byronscott4ever]

Always nice to see good patch cards of players with none/few, I'm sure these will be big sellers again

[jr22vp]

These are awesome.....I may bust wax for once. Those select autos look awesome. I would much prefer a kyrie select auto to a prizm auto

[SPauthentic84]

Yeah Im not going to lie, these look nice.

I want a Kyrie Prime!

(I only hope they are /25 so it wont be $5000 to get)

[pnft17]

Looks awesome!!!

Mark Price is a huge get. His autos sell for a lot. He is gonna be a huge sleeper in this.

McHale is nice add.

[Orangejello727]

Looks like most of them are /5 /10 /25. Noticed the kucoc is /3

[DwightWall122]

Wow all of those cards are gorgeous! I can't wait to bust wax of Preferred and Select!!

[xavieronly1]

At least these Silhouettes are better than football design.

The gold select should be full boarder, not just 2 sides.

[slugger3469]

I dont collect basketball. I dont watch basketball.

That being said, these are some amazing looking cards.

It makes me a little light headed to think, much less say, this:

WELL DONE PANINI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gamboooler]

Preferred looks incredible. Going to hold off for now, but I might get a case. Everything about it just looks better. Only way they could botch it is if two out of three autos per box are rookies.

[tristan20]

Same as last year, smaller patch window

At least they kept the same nice design.

Those triangle cards are so ugly and there are so many products with them.

I would love to see Shaq and Wade autos on card

[bettydaw1970]

[QUOTE=tristan20;4195557]
Those triangle cards are so ugly and there are so many products with them.

I kindof like em...
of course the design is from 18 years ago..

[Jin]

[QUOTE=bettydaw1970;4195625]

Originally Posted by tristan20

Those triangle cards are so ugly and there are so many products with them.

I kindof like em...
of course the design is from 18 years ago..

I agree, I think look pretty neat too. Just don't like how they look exactly the same as last years' though

[lennox.p]

Originally Posted by tristan20

Same as last year, smaller patch window

At least they kept the same nice design.

Those triangle cards are so ugly and there are so many products with them.

I would love to see Shaq and Wade autos on card

theme is a theme so they will allways look similar to the previous year! ud did it too


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wich other products have triangle cards but preferred?

[bjho852]

Judging from the look of the autogrpahs, it seems that Uncle Drew signed the parallels first before signing the regular cards. Haha~

[tristan20]

Originally Posted by lennox.p

theme is a theme so they will allways look similar to the previous year! ud did it too


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wich other products have triangle cards but preferred?

How do those cards look similar? The patch windows are all different and its pretty clear which product belonged to which year.


Not that its a bad thing, Sillouttes are the best cards and design panini ever made
Compare Preferred from last year to this year, they look almost the same

[Yaga]

So they now have new Kyrie on card autos completed... does this mean we can finally get our 11-12 XRC redemptions of his sometime soon????????

[Quigley24]

These look AMAZING!

[jj2]

Originally Posted by tristan20

Same as last year, smaller patch window

At least they kept the same nice design.

It's hard to believe that anyone would get this years and last years silhouette designs confused.

[thepinoymamba]

Looks Very Very Promising!