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Last Friday we leaked the first glorious glimpses of the sublime booklet cards that will drop one per box inside 2011 Preferred Basketball. Frankly, it was one of the most buzz-generating galleries we’ve done on The Knight’s Lance in quite some time. But the one that follows promises to be...

Before the 18,000 or so fans who enter Orlando’s Amway Center tomorrow night watch the 2012 NBA All-Star Game, they will get up close and personal with some of the game’s top players thanks to special packs of 2011-12 NBA Hoops cards that they receive on their way in. The four-card packs...

In honor of tomorrow’s 2012 NBA All-Star Game in Orlando, Panini America is giving away three boxes of the highly anticipated 2011-12 NBA Hoops Basketball, which releases to the masses next week. All you have to do to be eligible to win is predict the combined All-Star Game point total of Kobe...

For most of the last month, Panini America NBA acquisitions maven Ivory Tabb has been on the road in one NBA city or another tracking down as many on-card autographs as possible for the upcoming 2011 Preferred Basketball. Along the way, the road-weary Tabb has regaled us with entertaining...

The sudden onset of Linsanity has sent fans and collectors all over the globe scurrying back to last season’’s NBA-licensed products from Panini America looking for Jeremy Lin gems that as recently as last month were little more than hobby afterthoughts. And that international hunt has...

All this talk about Jeremy Lin (which we absolutely love, by the way) has served to swipe some of the spotlight away from another young player enjoying a spectacular season in his own right: Cleveland Cavaliers No. 1 overall pick Kyrie Irving. Panini America signed Irving — a player Dime...

Editor’s Note: This post first appeared on April 16, 2011. But given Kate Upton’s continued ascension into supermodel superstardom, we felt like now was a good time to revisit it. I’ve gotta be honest with you: Two days ago, I didn’t even know what “The Dougie” was. Today, I find it...

Just when you think Jeremy Lin’s mesmerizing, planet-gripping ascension into international superstardom can’t possibly grow any richer, the kid goes and drops a game-winning 3-pointer against the Toronto Raptors on Tuesday night to cap a furious comeback for the New York Knicks’ sixth...

A few weeks ago we brought you some great behind-the-scenes insight from Panini America NBA acquisitions specialist Ivory Tabb, who’s been traveling the country in dogged pursuit of every last autograph slated for the upcoming 2011 Preferred Basketball release. In her first installment, Tabb...

For all of the throwback brilliance permeating the upcoming release of Panini America’s 2011-12 Hoops Basketball, there is at least one very new inclusion sure to resonate with basketball card collectors around the globe: Jeremy Lin’s first trading card featuring him as a member of the New...

Are these heady times for New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin? Lindeed. In the span of a week, the Harvard-educated Lin has gone from an oft-discarded NBA afterthought to an unprecedented international — ahem, Linternational — phenomenon. His every move these days — on the court and off...

There’s a retro revolution coming later this month with the heavily anticipated release of Panini America’s 2011-12 Hoops Basketball, and the man leading the charge is the same giant who ignited the original Hoops craze — and revitalized the entire modern basketball card market — way...

There has been an unprecedented occurrence, a meteoric uprising really, this past week in the sports collectibles market, one which has absolutely nothing to do with the Super Bowl, and could only be described as a Roy Hobbs-like phenomenon. His name is Jeremy Lin. He plays point guard for the...