2015-16 Panini Prizm Basketball is ready to shine
By Stephen Laroche | Beckett Basketball Editor
A brand that has steadily evolved over since its arrival in card stores three years ago, 2015-16 Panini Prizm Basketball seeks to maintain its spot as one of the most popular and eye-catching products around. This year, Panini America has taken their game to a new level with hard-signed autographs from members of the new rookie class, but there will also be some new types of inserts and parallels to draw in both new and old fans.
Collectors have the option to choose between four-card hobby and 12-card jumbo packs. A 20-pack hobby box contains one autograph card and a dozen Prizm parallels – of which at least three will be numbered. Those optioning for the 12-pack jumbo boxes get two autographs along with 22 Prizms and six of those will bear a serial numbers.
Base Set
Even after the recent announcement that 2015-16 Panini Complete was to have the largest base set this season at 330 cards, 2015-16 Panini Prizm Basketball surprisingly will top it with 400 cards of its own. One of the most interesting aspects of it is that it will feature more than 40 different rookies to collect.
Parallels
A product that carries on a fine tradition of colorful and often limited parallels, 2015-16 Panini Prizm Basketball drops 12 of them in every box. This season marks the debut of a hobby-exclusive Mojo Prizm and the others announced in the original product solicitation are the always-popular Gold Prizms along with Rookie Purple Prizms.
Inserts
One of the most visually striking insert sets to come out of Prizm is back for another year with the confirmation of Fireworks. There is also a USA Basketball set which will certainly have its fair share of fans. New to the brand are the horizontal Point Men cards which examines the NBA’s best.
Autographs
As noted in Beckett Basketball, Panini was able to get plenty of signatures from this season’s top freshmen at the 2015 NBA Rookie Showcase and the company prepared for the event well in advance with a plan to add hard-signed content to 2015-16 Panini Prizm Basketball. The end result is a strong Rookie Signatures collection which will show players in their pro or collegiate uniforms that is sure to draw plenty of attention on the secondary market. Panini has stated that there is not only a Rookie Signatures Prizms version, but also a Hyper Prizm edition that will be numbered to just 10 copies each.
Stephen Laroche is the editor of Beckett Hockey, Beckett Basketball, and Beckett Sports Card Monthly magazines. Have a comment, question or idea? Send an e-mail to him at slaroche@beckett.com or follow him on Twitter @Stephen_Laroche.
2015-16 Panini Prizm Basketball at a glance:
Packs per box: 20 (hobby), 12 (jumbo)
Cards per pack: 4 (hobby), 12 (jumbo)
Boxes per case: 12
Set size: 400 cards
Release date: December 2, 2015
What to expect in a hobby box:
- Autographs – 1
- Prizm Parallels – 12
What to expect in a jumbo box:
- Autographs – 2
- Prizm Parallels – 22
Is Panini going to be putting college cards in all their products from now on? Them getting the college liscenses’ is terrible for collectors, now the will way overproduce those cards as well. It’s a dang shame
400 card set is so not necessary. All this will do us hurt the value of the box for collectors as they will pull fewer rookies. Not sure if Panini is thinking this through or just don’t care about its customers getting a decent return on their box
Opened up a box tonight that I had gotten for Christmas and pulled a Black Border 1 of 1 Kyrie Iving All Star #359 a TMac signed card and a few nice #’d cards.
Kind regards,
JT23
what are the gold autographs #’d/10 worth in comparison to the regular ??…like x5 or what?