First look: 2010-11 Panini Prestige basketball cards

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First look: 2010-11 Panini Prestige basketball cards
July 22, 2010, 10:04 am


Panini America revealed its first basketball set for the 2010-11 season — it’s sophomore season as the NBA’s lone trading card licensee — and it’s Prestige leading the way.

Set to arrive on Sept. 29, Prestige will include a rookie in every pack and each 24-pack hobby box will include one autograph, one NBA Auto Draft Class card (limited to 499 or less) and two memorabilia cards.

Oh, and perhaps Panini’s biggest selling point? There are more than 20,000 on-card autographs to be found in this product.

Eight-card packs will carry a $4 suggested retail price.

The set will mark the first cards fo No. 1 Overall Pick John Wall as well as autographs from Panini-exclusives Evan Turner and Wesley Johnson. It also will include the first Knicks autographs of Amar’e Stoudemire as well as debut autographs of Chris Bosh and Carlos Boozer in their new uniforms.

Among the autograph checklist are Kobe Bryant, Carmelo Anthony, Shaquille O’Neal, Derrick Rose, Steve Nash, Tyreke Evans, Rajon Rondo, Magic Johnson, Gary Payton, Elgin Baylor and Alonzo Mourning.

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[J-FIELDS23]

Very nice!

So when will I get the chance to pull/buy a Wall autograph?

[oshmeehan]

Any checklist available yet?

And the 20,000 on-card autographs really isn't that impressive. If you assume there will be 30 rookies or so in the Draft Class Auto set and each being #'d out of 499, that's almost 15,000 autographs right there. Add in another few thousand for the lower #'d parallels of that set. Then a couple thousand for the Old School set which is probably on card. You're all of a sudden at your 20,000 on-card autographs.

So its probably no different than 09/10 Prestige where just the Draft Class and Old School auto's are the only ones that are on-card. Expect the regular rookies to be sticker autos.

I don't have any problem with it and there being stickers, but that 20,000 number is deceiving a bit

[Casebreaker]

a gary payton auto nice, all we need is shawn kemp...

[oshmeehan]

a gary payton auto nice, all we need is shawn kemp...

Payton has live on-card autos in Crown Royale

But yeah, Kemp would be nice as well. I'm sure he could use the extra cash

[suki24]

theyre finally learning to leave space for autos and patches

[Boldstar6]

D. Rose auto huh...sweet!

[mburrows]

Can't wait to get my hands on this. Was considering buying a case of Crown Royale but I'll be waiting :)

[TungTLe]

they need to sign Wall, Dwight, and what ever happened to Durant signing on with Panini?!

[Andrew Jones]

theyre finally learning to leave space for autos and patches

Maybe but I think whats looks like a "space" in those pictures is just the sticker and the autos will still be obscured on the card like this year. Hopefully you're right though.

[boxbreaker88]

this looks like a fine product