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What's Buzzing Today: Dominating pulls, showing off 1990s NFL cards, NSCC chatter and the "best box of my life."

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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: An NHL show-off thread, Hulking Out Chrome cards, big pulls, NSCC chatter & more.

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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: NSCC chatter, pondering the best ink-less NFL Rookie Cards, an oddball MJ and big pulls.

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Have you seen the latest cool or interesting items on eBay? If not, you just might see some of those here every week as we're launching a weekly version of our eBay Buzz pieces that pop up from time to time. We’ll spotlight some items that have a story or just wow us with how much interest it might have — and we’re not just talking baseball cards, either.

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RARE AIR 
The Item: An uncut sheet of 1986-87 Fleer basketball cards
The Price: $709 after 24 bids (with just two days remaining)
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: I've not heard of entire sheets being counterfeited but with the Michael Jordan Rookie Card (heavily faked) you never know ... but what we do know with this one is that it's not perfect but an uncut sheet with this card and this landmark set is impressive. The back of the sheet suffers from massive red ink staining so that's probably why the sheet wasn't cut and put into packs. What kind of other flaws might there be? It's not clear based on the auction images, but it generally looks pretty good on the front and it's the kind of cool impressive piece to frame and display for not only its Jordan presence but every other Hall of Famer Rookie Card that's on it. (It's not worth professional cutting with the back staining.) This one is dirt cheap right now but could go crazy before it ends.
Similar Pieces: More 1986-87 Fleer eBay auctions
The BlowoutCards.com Hunt: Click here for NBA boxes

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If you have a long-standing redemption from Panini America, the company will let you trade it in at the National Sports Collectors Convention.

One of the company's priorities at the show running Aug. 1-5 in Cleveland is its "Live Redemption Trade-Up" that will allow those with redemptions more than four months old and still in the company's system to trade them in for something live at the show.

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Panini America's National Sports Collectors Convention wrapper redemption plans are starting to come into shape publicly with the first glimpses of the cardboard to come revealed today.

And the key color of everything so far is pink.

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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: A Ginter box with two Rip Cards ... and a pack with two metal minis, one fishy break, NSCC chatter and Blowout Mega Mix anticipation are just some of the highlights today.

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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: Big WWE (retail) and hockey (The Fantastic Store) pulls, NSCC chatter, a look at tonight's Ted Williams documentary & more.

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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: Nothing but NSCC discussions and some huge pulls in today's edition.

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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: NSCC dealer tips and general chatter, big pulls, Topps' Washington Post baseball cards (what?), Panini's NBA free agent, big pulls & more.

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What: 2017-18 Panini Impeccable basketball cards
Arrives: Sept. 19
Box basics: Five autographs per nine-card box (three boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: This high-end brand returns to the court with "a wide array of signatures and surprises" with new inclusions that include cards printed on metal and metal inlay cards.

Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.

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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: Visiting the set of Wonder Woman 1984, pondering young MLB debuts, big pulls, NSCC chatter & more.

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Professional Sports Authenticator will have a number of things for fans to check out at this year's National Sports Collectors Convention that's set for Aug. 1-5 in Cleveland.

The leading authentication and grading company will have custom cards for fans who opt to get in on those at the show as well as contests for three notable Cleveland items that can be entered both at the show and online right now. The custom card options include Cleveland Indians and Cavaliers gear.

“Last year’s custom encapsulated card option was such a big success in Chicago that we are excited to bring the experience to collectors and sports fans in Cleveland, too,” said PSA Vice President Steve Sloan. “What better way to preserve your memory of being at the show than with a custom trading card from PSA?”

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Have you seen the latest crazy items on eBay? If not, you just might see some of those here every week as we're launching a weekly version of our eBay Buzz pieces that pop up from time to time. We’ll spotlight some items that have a story or just wow us with how much interest it might have — and we’re not just talking baseball cards, either.

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HOTTEST INK IN THE HOBBY?
The Item: 2018 Cryptozoic Rick And Morty Season 1 Autograph #JR-R Justin Roiland as Rick Sanchez (/50)
The Price: $947.64 Buy-It-Now
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: Just like the cartoon series, you can't really explain it -- you just have to see it. A number of the autographs in this recently released product are scorchers and they're not even the main thrust of the set -- you'll find one and sometimes two full-color sketch cards per box (and sometimes an auto atop that). Roiland is the co-creator of this cult classic series and he signed a few different cards for characters in this release -- and that hasn't brought down prices for those that have sold or are on the block. Even the binders for this one are selling very well.
Similar Pieces: Check out other cards in this set
The BlowoutCards.com Hunt: Click here for boxes and binders for Rick and Morty

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Enterbay has been producing some amazing sculpted NBA figures for the last few years, but there's a new piece on the way that captures a moment that set the stage for much of the basketball merch and a shoe revolution that came afterward.

It's a sculpt of the iconic Jumpman pose of Michael Jordan. 

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Update: It sold for $33,600 back in August 2018.

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Not all ticket stubs are the same -- and this one is far rarer than an iconic card in the hobby.

This Chicago Bulls stub from Oct. 26, 1984, hits the auction block late this month and it's one that could push the $10,000 mark according to Heritage Auctions. 

Why?

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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: Big error cards, Ronald Acuña's arrival, big pulls, NSCC chatter and LeBron in Los Angeles.

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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: Impressive vintage and Hall of Famer stashes, NSCC chatter, snow inside an epic NBA pack (no, not Eric), big pulls & more.

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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: LeBron James heads to the Lakers (updated), NSCC chatter, a legendary mailday, some impressive pulls, a player collector retires and more in today's edition.

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Have you seen the latest crazy items on eBay? If not, you just might see some of those here every week as we're launching a weekly version of our eBay Buzz pieces that pop up from time to time. We’ll spotlight some items that have a story or just wow us with how much interest it might have — and we’re not just talking baseball cards, either.

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HOW ABOUT THIS OHTANI?
The Item: 2018 Topps Inception Jumbo Patch Autograph Shohei Ohtani 1/1
The Price: $50,000 Buy-It-Now (or best offer)
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: Inception is a fun memorabilia-laced creation and this card is among the biggest in the product that arrived just yesterday. Ohtani appears on just 10 cards in the product -- three un-numbered versions and the rest rarer than 25 copies -- and this is one of two 1/1s in the release for this super-hot international star. Will that asking price be met? I doubt it, but it's a nice card.
Similar Pieces: Other 2018 Topps Inception singles on eBay
The BlowoutCards.com Hunt: Click here for 2018 Topps Inception boxes

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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: Three 1/1s in a four-hit Star Wars box? Yep, that and more in today's edition ...

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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 packs: 2015-16 Panini Complete NBA cards (six packs)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (when available)

Cards per pack: 5
Cards per lot: 30
Base set completion: 24 of 330 (7 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notable players on base cards – Russell Westbrook, Gordon Hayward, James Harden, Steven Adams, O.J. Mayo, Paul Pierce, Wesley Matthews, Tyreke Evans

Rookie Cards (3) – Jahlil Okafor, Devin Booker, Justise Winslow

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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: NSCC and Juan Soto chatter along with big pulls from around the collecting world in today's edition.

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We're less than an hour from the start of the 2018 NBA Draft and Panini America already has the first NBA cards of the new stars ready.

Via Panini Instant.

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What: 2017-18 Panini Vanguard basketball cards
Arrives: Sept. 5
Box basics: Four autographs per five-card box (six boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Panini offers up "the new Vanguard of the hobby" with this one that includes nearly nothing but ink in every high-end box.

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

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