2018-19 Hoops Basketball Forum

Panini Hoops Factory Sets

It looks like 199 sets, cards serial numbered to 199, an autograph and only $500 a set! How many are you buying?

Autographs serial numbered to 10 of:

• Stephen Curry
• Dwyane Wade
• Magic Johnson
• Damian Lillard
• Dirk Nowitzki
• Charles Barkley
• Julius Erving
• Bill Russell
• Oscar Robertson
• Reggie Miller
• Larry Bird
• Kyrie Irving
• Kevin Durant
• Karl Malone
• John Stockton
• Kobe Bryant
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
• Shaquille O’Neal
• Giannis Antetokounmpo
• Allen Iverson

With my auto luck, I could buy 11 sets and only get Damian Lillard autos (looks like he's good after a quick Wikipedia search, but the only one I didn't recognize).  That's a really solid auto lineup!

All of those signers are Hall of Famers or future Hall of Famers. Even though I already have autographs from Curry, Wade, Magic, Miller, Bird, Stockton, Kobe, Shaq and Iverson, I'd still buy it if I could. 

I can't, though. 

Worth noting...this is the first factory set Panini has produced for the NBA.

I hope Kyries has a picture of him sitting on the edge of a flat earth 

Every card in the set is serially numbered to 199, and numbered copies are mixed within the set—so every individual set has a chance to pull specific serial numbers such as copy 1/199, jersey numbers, draft years, etc!

LOL Panini all but said "eBay 1 of 1s" 

Ketchup, of all the trends of the modern hobby that I hate, and there are a few, the idea of an eBay 1 of 1 is easily my most hated.  Ugh!!

It's not the first; they did the same thing last year:

https://blog.paniniamerica.net/2017/11/22/panini-america-offering-2017-18-nba-hoops-premium-factory-set-as-online-exclusive/

It's well out of my price range, but I think it would be better if all the cards in each factory set had matching serial numbers instead of a random mix.