Panini Blog Kyrie, Shaq Headline Stunning Early Batch of 2012-13 Flawless Basketball Arrivals

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With Panini America’s 2012-13 Intrigue Basketball slated to arrive in hobby shops on Wednesday, that leaves two remaining NBA products on the 2012-13 release calendar — and both are going to be huge. One is 2012-13 Immaculate Basketball (which we previewed a while back and will showcase in greater detail later this week); the other is 2012-13 Flawless Basketball (which we teased to incredible buzz a few weeks ago).

If you saw that original post on The Knight’s Lance, you already know that 2013 NBA Rookie of the Year Damian Lillard will have on-card autographs in Flawless. But he’ll be joined in that product by fellow ROYs Kyrie Irving and Shaquille O’Neal as well as some of the greatest current superstars and retired legends the NBA has ever known.


But we mention Irving and O’Neal specifically today because they recently returned a jaw-dropping array of on-card Flawless autographs to Panini America HQ — and we simply couldn’t wait to show them off.

Their impressive handwritten handiwork follows in the gallery below, and foretells of the greatness to come in 2012-13 Flawless Basketball. We’ll have much more on this history-making release right here on The Knight’s Lance in the coming days. Until then, take the necessary time to appreciate these stunners . . .

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Damm, way to ruin a huge patch! Shame, I was looking forward to these.