搶先看:2013-14 Immaculate Basketball

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This is no ordinary Knight’s Lance first look at an upcoming Panini America product. No, a product like 2013-14 Immaculate Basketball calls for something . . . special. Immaculate Basketball erupted onto the scene last season by commanding collector attention like few other premiere products ever have. From its massive game-worn memorabilia cards to its acetate-influenced and autographed SPs, 2012-13 Immaculate Basketball was an instant classic. So, how can Panini America possibly top that rookie juggernaut?

Well, with an Immaculate encore, of course. 2013-14 Immaculate Basketball is slated to arrive in hobby shops on September 3 boasting five autograph or memorabilia cards in every six-card box; it also delivers many of the now-legendary inserts that fanned the flames of last season’s success.


To be sure, the highlights are many and include . . .

• Autographed NBA Logoman cards of stars from yesterday, today and tomorrow.
• Massive prime swatches of memorabilia from your favorite player’s game-worn jerseys, including Nameplate, Jersey Number, Team Logo, Patches and Insignias chases.
• Unique gold-ink autographs in Scorers Club, Elite Scorers Club, The Greatest and HOF Heroes inserts.
• Rookie Logoman Autographs Booklets feature the hottest rookie combos of the 2013-14 season in one-of-a-kind booklets.
• The return of the vaunted Rookie Patch Autographs RCs.
• The opportunity for collectors to own full letters from the nameplates of game-worn jerseys in the Nameplate Nobility insert. (Think you can assemble the whole name?)
• The spectacular addition of the unique Sole of the Game insert featuring the tread from selected stars’ game-worn sneakers.

In the preview gallery that follows, we provide an early look at several mock-ups for 2013-14 Immaculate Basketball. But we told you at the top that this wasn’t your normal preview post — and it’s not. After the mock-ups, we follow up with an explosive array of on-card autographs that have already been returned for inclusion in the product.

It’s absolutely must-see stuff. Just be advised, you might want to be seated first. Stay tuned to The Knight’s Lance for continued coverage.

phvita

好多t-mac
但是少了魔術隊的???

jordan23232323

簡直就是T-MC專輯  暴龍 尼克 火箭 老鷹
少了魔術和馬刺................

MaxBallGod

回復 1# Ysponder


    小國寶這次真的好看 銷魂

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It’s Gotta Be the Shoes: Sneak a Peek Inside Panini America’s Immaculate Basketball



Back in the late 1980s, Spike Lee helped Nike put Air Jordans on the mainstream map with his entertaining portrayal of Mars Blackmon, a hype man of the highest order who contended in a series of now-classic commercials that the greatness of Chicago’s otherworldly basketball superstar could be attributed to one thing: “It’s gotta be the shoes.” Truth be told, there was a little more than just sweet footwear at the heart of No. 23’s unrivaled brilliance, no matter how much of a global phenomenon the Air Jordan empire has become in the last 30 years or so.

In the years since, sneakers — from Nike, adidas, Reebok, Fila, Converse, Under Armour and more — have become an intimate part of an NBA player’s identity. And in the upcoming release of 2013-14 Immaculate Basketball, Panini America will pay tribute to that trend in true groundbreaking fashion with a pair of insert sets that feature the most extensive — and jaw-dropping — use of game-worn NBA shoes in trading card history.


Appropriately dubbed “Sneak Peek” and “Sole of the Game,” the new additions to the Immaculate Basketball insert roster will deliver some of the most unique trading cards collectors have ever seen; extra-thick history-makers featuring brand logos, size tags, soles, player names, tongue pieces and more from game-worn shoes of the NBA’s greatest players. Shaquille O’Neal’s Reebok Pumps? They’re in there. Larry Johnson’s Converse Reacts? In there. Nikes worn by Kobe Bryant . . . and LeBron James . . . and Blake Griffin . . . and Kevin Durant . . . and Kyrie Irving? Yep, those are in there, too — along with other famous footwear presented in a completely revolutionary forum.

In the gallery below (a sneak peek of Sneak Peek, so to speak), we showcase just some of the game-worn shoes — many of them in various forms of deconstruction — utilized for 2013-14 Immaculate Basketball. And if you think these preliminary images are spectacular, wait until you see the cards.

So, what’s going to make 2013-14 Immaculate Basketball one of the most spectacular trading card products . . . ever? To quote the great Mars Blackmon: “It’s gotta be the shoes!” Enjoy this preliminary perusal and stay tuned to The Knight’s Lance in the coming days for a complete gallery of every card created for the Sneak Peek insert.

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Large and In Charge: Panini America Begins Packout for 2013-14 Immaculate Basketball



It’s official: Packout has begun for Panini America’s 2013-14 Immaculate Basketball, only one of the most anticipated releases of the entire sports card year. Immaculate as a brand really needs no introduction, the result of an absolutely fascinating debut one year ago headlined by mammoth memorabilia cards featuring some of the most unique pieces of game- and player-worn history ever assembled and an impeccable design.

Those character-defining traits return in full force for 2013-14, along with rare on-card autographs from the likes of Allen Iverson, Carmelo Anthony, Manu Ginobili, Oscar Robertson and many more. We’ll tip off our captivating packout preview series with a look at just some of 2013-14 Immaculate Basketball’s larger-than-life memorabilia cards.


Stay tuned to The Knight’s Lance for continued coverage of 2013-14 Immaculate Basketball in the coming days, including the jaw-dropping world-premiere reveal of a Sneak Peek insert so cool that it must be seen to be believed. But until then, these oversized memorabilia cards should be enough to keep you drooling.

Enjoy.

           

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Golden: Panini America Explores the Gilded Ink in 2013-14 Immaculate Basketball



While the Immaculate Basketball brand will always be known as a haven for some of the most majestic NBA memorabilia cards created every year, that lofty reputation tends to obscure the fact that there are also some pretty epic on-card autograph inclusions in the product, too. This year, those include some striking gold-ink cards within the Scorer’s Club, Elite Scorer’s Club, The Greatest and Hall of Fame Heroes inserts.

As we continue our countdown to next Friday’s release of 2013-14 Immaculate Basketball, today we fix our focus on the gilded greatness of those aforementioned inserts and the legends who signed them. Below, you’ll find a quick gallery of some of the gold-ink highlights, including monster hits featuring the likes of Allen Iverson, Dwyane Wade, Kobe Bryant, Jerry West, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Shaquille O’Neal and many more.


Enjoy the preview and stay tuned to The Knight’s Lance for continued pre-release coverage of 2013-14 Immaculate Basketball.


        

Lebroning

很好奇戰神簽價格會是多少?宣告破產後就出簽名,真是晚景淒涼,還得靠出簽名來換錢~~

Raviry

破產那是鄉民的說法吧...

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Out of the Box: Panini America’s Sneak Peek Insert Gives Game-Worn Kicks a New Home



If the shoe fits, you don’t always wear it. Sometimes when the shoe fits — even barely — you make history with it. And when the shoes that barely fit also happen to have been worn by iconic NBA superstars in a game, well, you create something the likes of which card collectors have never seen — and you shout it from the mountaintops. That’s the genesis of Panini America’s Sneak Peek insert that will debut in next Wednesday’s release of 2013-14 Immaculate Basketball.

It’s a quite extraordinary accomplishment, this Sneak Peek insert; and one for which there were no footsteps to follow. So Panini America officials from multiple departments walked the most extensive game-worn sneaker insert in hobby history from idea to reality. The results, as you’ll see in the gallery below, speak for themselves and that’s good — because you’ll likely be left speechless.


“The idea to create the Sneak Peek memorabilia cards came while we were looking at a pair of Kobe Bryant game-worn sneakers in the Panini Authentic memorabilia room,” said Jim Stefano, Panini America’s Senior Director of Product Development. “NBA players, more so than any other athletes, wear sneakers that reflect their personalities. Their sneakers are an extension of who they are. It’s all about the swag.”

That swag, of course, takes various forms. Shaquille O’Neal’s Reebok Pumps. Blake Griffin’s Jordans. Kobe’s Kobes. Larry Johnson’s Converse Reacts. LeBron’s Nike Lebron Xs. It was one thing to create a wishlist of game-worn sneakers to target for Sneak Peek; it was another thing altogether more complex to actually acquire them and then figure out how best to incorporate them into a trading card.

But Panini America acquisitions officials worked their relationships with exclusive and non-exclusives athletes alike to turn a wishlist into a checklist; from there, the game-worn sneakers made their way through Panini America HQ, with each department — Product Development, Production, Design — helping shape the masterful finished product.

“This was truly a great experience to develop and execute with the various departments within Panini America,” Stefano said. “It was a true team effort that resulted in one of the most singularly spectacular sets of trading cards ever created. The sheer amount of different swatch colors, materials and patterns is a unique and exciting development for the entire trading card category. We believe these cards will not only be sought after by basketball collectors but by sneaker heads as well.”

In the gallery that follows, we showcase most of the bona fide history-makers that comprise the 2013-14 Immaculate Basketball Sneak Peek insert. You can check out some additional images from the set by checking out our friends at Kicks On Fire and Beckett. Enjoy the images and stay tuned to The Knight’s Lance for continued coverage.


                              

Lebroning

球鞋大patch卡,這個有新鮮感~~應該可以滿足大家的胃口......

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Inside Immaculate: Panini America Surveys More from 2013-14 Immaculate Basketball



As if collector anticipation for 2013-14 Immaculate Basketball wasn’t heightened enough after this Tuesday’s world-premiere unveiling of the product’s revolutionary Sneak Peek insert, we’re likely about to raise the interest level just a little bit more. In the gallery that follows, we deliver a new series of drool-inducing imagery, the remaining results of our trip last week to the Panini America production facility to document the Immaculate packout process.

Included among the images below are more must-see images of the massive memorabilia featured in the product’s headlining Immaculate Logos, Immaculate Insignias, Immaculate Numbers and Nameplate Nobility inserts. In addition, we also provide your first look at the unique Christmas Day game-worn shorts cards that feature both base and oversized Prime versions and incorporate shorts worn during the NBA’s 2013 Christmas Day games.


2013-14 Immaculate Basketball releases in hobby shops across North America on Wednesday. Enjoy this sneak peek and stay tuned to The Knight’s Lance for additional coverage.

     

phvita

patch簽是漂亮,但限量張數也太多了吧??