What: 2024-25 Panini Obsidian basketball cards
Arrives: Sept. 12
Box basics: Two autographed cards and one memorabilia card per seven-card box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Obsidian arrives on the NBA hardwood for the seventh time with rookies and plenty more to be found as part of this colorful release.

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The box: 2023-24 Topps Chrome basketball cards (blaster)
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Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (a few formats)

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The box: 2023-24 Topps Chrome basketball cards (blaster)
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Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (a few formats)

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What: 2023-24 Topps Mercury Victor Wembanyama basketball cards
Arrives: Sept. 27
Box basics: Two encased autographs per eight-card box (all cards encased)
Checklist: Click here 
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Topps raises the room temperature with a high-end look at the reigning rookie of the year in pro basketball with a collection that includes his ink in every box and sometimes more.

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The box: 2021-22 Panini Prizm NBA cards (hanger pack)
First Buzz preview: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for a few formats)

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What: 2021-22 Topps Finest basketball cards
Arrives: Now via Topps.com
Box basics: One autograph card per 18-pack box
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here (when available)

What's buzz-worthy: Topps returns to the basketball ranks with a release that's teased to be a colorful stylistic throwback with a relatively meaty mix of names with ink for many of them.

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The box: 2018 SportKings Volume 1 sports cards
Where to buy: Click here

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 From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post 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: 2018 SportKings Volume 1 sports cards
Where to buy: Click here

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The box: 2019-20 Panini Prizm NBA cards (Target Mega Box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (all formats)

Packs per box: 6
Cards per pack: 10
Cards in this box: 60
Base set completion: 
29 of 200 (15 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Trae Young, Ben Simmons, Bill Russell, Pete Maravich, Jason Kidd, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green, Lou Williams, Victor Oladipo, Lauri Markkanen, Lonzo Ball, Paul George

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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 a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Past breaks, big pulls, NFL rookie autograph quality and more in today's edition.

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Do you like Buzz Breaks? Today's your day then as we launch 8 in 8 -- a series of a eight breaks of wax boxes and wax packs in as many hours today. We'll post one every hour ... this is Hour 5.

The box: 2010-11 Panini Season Update NBA (hobby)
The cost: Click here

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Do you like Buzz Breaks? Today's your day then as we launch 12 in 12 -- a series of a dozen breaks of wax boxes and wax packs in a dozen hours. We'll post one every hour all day long ... this is Hour 7.

The box: 1995 Classic 5-Sport retail box
The cost: $15 (will vary if you can find)

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Do you like Buzz Breaks? Today's your day then as we launch 12 in 12 -- a series of a dozen breaks of wax boxes and wax packs in a dozen hours. We'll post one every hour all day long ... this is Hour 1.

The box: 1996 Score Board Autographed Collection
The cost: $43 (Expect to pay more ... if you can even find one.)

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Collectors tearing into packs of Panini America's popular recent NBA arrival -- 2017-18 Panini Prizm -- might find something a little different.

Coaches cards ... and that's not all as there are even some rarer coach autographs to be found.

These iconic leaders, some former players and some future Hall of Famers, aren't typically found on cardboard -- at least in most sets -- but they're found here.

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The box: 2017-18 Donruss basketball cards (hobby)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (a few formats)

Packs per box: 24
Cards per pack: 10
Cards in this box: 240
Base set completion: 200 of 200 (100 percent)
Duplicates: 13

Notable players on base cards – LeBron James, Karl-Anthony Towns, Kevin Durant, Kristaps Porzingis, Russell Westbrook, Kawhi Leonard, Andrew Wiggins, Stephen Curry, Kyle Lowery, Kemba Walker, Blake Griffin, John Wall, Jimmy Butler ... and everybody else.

Rookie Cards (54) – All 50 of them with dupes, including Lonzo Ball, Markelle Fultz, Frank Ntilikina, De'Aaron Fox, Zach Collins, Dennis Smith Jr., Zhou Qi, Jonathan Isaac, Wayne Selden Jr., Dwayne Bacon, Tyler Dorsey, Malik Monk, Luke Kennard, Jayson Tatum, Sindarius Thornwell. Ivan Rabb and Dillon Brooks to name a few.

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Do you like Buzz Breaks? Today's your day then as we launch 12 in 12 -- a series of a dozen breaks of past wax boxes and wax packs in a dozen hours. We'll post one every hour on the hour all day long today ... this is Hour 6.

The box: 1994-95 Signature Rookies Kro-Max basketball
The cost now: $19.95
The cost then: $180 ($5 per pack?!?!)

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If you hadn’t noticed, there are a number of boxes with discounted prices this weekend and for the next week or so over on the mothership and they were dramatic enough that Buzz had to sit down and ponder the possibilities in many of them.

So much so here's another of a few "picks" to come in the next few days.

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