Leaf Trading Cards will be among the card companies in attendance at this year's National Sports Collectors Convention set for Aug. 3-7 in Atlantic City, N.J., and it revealed its plans for the show on Wednesday.

It will be a four-pronged effort that includes a case-break redemption program, a box-break redemption program, promo cards and an aggressive buying of cards for future buyback products.

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There once was a time where Derrick Rose was among the elite in the hobby, a potential future icon once the older names hung them up.

Today, he's headed to New York to become a member of the seemingly always under-achieving Knicks. What might his future in the hobby hold? Well, it probably depends on what that team looks like ... but we want your thoughts.

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He's played a decade in the NBA for four teams but now that he's got an NBA championship there's one member of the Cleveland Cavaliers who just might have one of the rarer -- and dare we say hotter -- basketball cards of the bunch?

Ok, maybe not -- but maybe J.R. Smith's missing shirt might spark interest in his memorabilia cards?

Again, maybe not, but it's a fun thought.

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The NBA season is over but the cardboard season just keeps going -- and the latest release from Panini America arrives tomorrow with plenty of high-end potential.

It's 2015-16 Panini Gala and every five-card box includes four autographs or memorabilia cards.

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He told the world that he was coming home in the pages of Sports Illustrated and now that he's accomplished his goal of landing Cleveland its first championship since 1964 it makes the most sense to find himself on the cover of the long-running magazine once again.

Not since his debut as "The Chosen One" has there been such a potentially coveted LeBron James SI cover.

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The Cleveland Cavaliers' first NBA championship means there will be plenty of new commemorative pieces to come -- and two of the team's biggest stars' autographs will only come from Upper Deck Authenticated.

They are LeBron James and Kevin Love -- and there are already six autographed items available.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: The NBA Finals sparked a flurry of posts and opinions. Check out the chatter from Blowout's collecting community with the small sampling of links below.

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The Cleveland Cavaliers are your NBA Champions -- and on Monday Panini America will have the cardboard to prove it.

The first real-time Panini Instant basketball cards will document the NBA Finals and the Cavs' unlikely and historic championship beginning on Monday.

The company teased the images above shortly after Game 7 on Sunday night, confirming the previously teased cardboard and giving us all a hint of what's to come.

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You probably know him as the host of Inside the NBA, the postgame show for NBA on TNT broadcasts, but there's a lot you may not know about Ernie Johnson that are perfect for this Father's Day.

Those around the Atlanta area may know that he's the son of a former Milwaukee Braves pitcher and long-time Atlanta Braves announcer, Ernie Johnson Sr., who, after a nine-year MLB career, covered the team for more than 30 years. He's one of 29 members of the Atlanta Braves Hall of Fame after he was inducted in 2001.

The father appears on nearly 30 baseball cards with his Rookie Card coming in the 1954 Bowman set and his final regular-issue card in the 1960 Topps set. The son appears on just two cards -- one in the 1990-91 Hoops Announcers set, which is a rare card for its era, and the 2014-15 Panini Threads Voices of the Game autograph above.

But all of this isn't why Father's Day is the perfect time to learn more about a broadcaster and three-time Emmy Award winner we've heard plenty from since 1989.

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What: 2015-16 Panini Immaculate Collection basketball cards
Arrives: Aug. 24
Box basics:  Five autographs or memorabilia cards per six-card box (five boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Immaculate returns for another season with many of the features collectors have come to expect and some new takes on game-used memorabilia cards we've seen in the line before.

Keep reading for more info and a full gallery of images released so far.

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We all know that Michael Jordan is the biggest autograph in basketball and that his exploits in the NBA's Slam Dunk Contest are still memorable to this day.

A new item from Upper Deck Authenticated combines those two things with a twist.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Scenes inside fan caves, Topps NBA chips, big breaks, big blasters & the National Sports Collectors Convention.

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The NBA Finals had already begun when Panini America recently revealed its new real-time trading card platform called Panini Instant, but that's not stopping the showdown between the Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers from getting a bit more cardboard.

That will start sometime soon as we await Game 5 of the series tonight.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Allen & Ginter Rip Cards, big pulls, NFL photos, The NSCC & more.

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and break down the results here. Like this and want to see more -- or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 1999 WNBA Hoops basketball cards (hobby box)
Where to buy: Wherever you can find it reasonably priced

Packs per box: 36
Cards per pack: 10
Cards in this box: 360
Base set completion: 
110 of 110 (100 percent)
Duplicates: 110 (yep, a second full set)
Triplicates: 105 (yep, almost a third)
Quadruplicates: 11

Notable names pulled on base cards: Cynthia Cooper, Teresa Weatherspoon, Sheryl Swoopes, Lisa Leslie, Rebecca Lobo, Nikki McCray

Notable Rookie Cards pulled: Katie Smith, Jennifer Azzi, Chamique Holdsclaw, Dawn Staley, Nykesha Sales

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Big pulls, building a rainbow of parallel sets and finding NBA Finals stars.

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The WNBA is in its 20th season and one of the best all-around players in the history of the league, Swin Cash, announced on Tuesday that this will be the final campaign of her 15-year career.

"This game I love saved my life after a cancer scare. It’s provided for me and my family. It’s given me championships in college and the pros," she wrote in a piece for The Players Tribune. "And it’s asked me whether or not I had the tenacity and perseverance to compete with and against the greatest athletes in the world, and take home the prize of prizes: an Olympic gold medal. Twice."

She's one of the top players statistically -- yet she's got very little cardboard for fans to chase. Her story is not a unique one as WNBA cardboard has been largely limited to a small boxed set each year since 2009.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Big breaks from the NBA, NFL and Star Wars ranks plus Brock Lesnar's UFC return.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Behind the scenes at Topps in the early 1990s, The National autograph tickets, 2016 Topps Archives, I got you Babe and ... four 1/1s in one case?

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Big pulls, retro breaks, baseball hauls and The National.

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Father's Day is roughly two weeks away and Panini America's plans for its annual hobby shop promotion are coming together with a multi-sport release that celebrates nearly all ends of the sports world all on one place.

The Father's Day promo pack.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Allen & Ginter Rip Card finds, strong blasters, more retro NBA breaks, Ghostbusters and the best buy in MLB.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Big wrestling pulls, more 1990s NBA box breaks, favorite Panini NBA releases and ... what if the Golden State Warriors lose?

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Collecting MiLB gamers, big box breaks, X-Men: Apocalypse and WWE.

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This year's National Sports Collectors Convention is a couple of months away and thanks to its non-traditional location -- Atlantic City, N.J. -- there are perhaps a few more guests on tap that we've not expected to see at the annual show.

It's been a long time since the show was last in New Jersey -- it's largely been located in the Midwest for most of the last decade -- so regional autograph guests such as Hideki Matsui and countless others who wore pinstripes and starred for other teams in that area make sense. They'll also help draw in locals who might not normally hit the show ... just to get that ink.

Autograph ticket pricing for the show will come soon, but Buzz has picked seven top names that may not break the bank -- one per sport -- at the show.

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