Each box contains one numbered base card and 5 numbered hits made up of autographs, patches and relics. Some of the top hits are 1/1 Logoman autograph patches, booklet cards, Insignia patches and Game-used Nameplate Nobility patches but the top of the heap, be all-get all hits are the Sneak Peek shoe relics. These Sneak Peek relics contain a large sneaker swatch of star players like Kyrie Irving, Shaq, LeBron James and Kobe with the cards all numbered to either 1/1 or #/2 and even the cheapest cards are running a couple of hundred with most selling well over $1,000.
One thing to remember though is that these boxes are high-risk/high-reward. If you are lucky you can make out big but if you don’t have a four-leaf clover growing out of your butt you will have buyer’s remorse. Don’t get me wrong I don’t want to seem ungrateful, this was a unique experience, and I pulled cards from my two favorite teams but if I paid for the box I would have been disappointed.
First up is the Joakim Noah base card Gold Parallel #/10
A Kendrick Perkins jumbo relic #/75 from my least
favorite team, the OKC Stolen Sonics
A Bill Sharman autograph #/99
The card has chipping along the green bottom
A Michael Kidd-Gilchrist Sole Of The Game shoe relic
#/35
A Gary Payton Scorers Club autograph #/49
This card is very cool with the gold auto on black paper
Finally, an Alex Len Rookie Patch Autograph redemption
I collect Suns and Sonics so I got two cards for my
collection, including the amazing Payton autograph. I also got a shoe card, just not the kind I was hoping to pull. So there you go…
I agree that the box wasn't the greatest, and if you'd gone out and paid retail for it you'd come away a bit disappointed. But that Gary Payton auto is pretty sweet.
ReplyDeleteI really want an example of one of those shoe cards, just because they're a cool concept. The Kidd-Gilchrist certainly isn't the top of the heap, but it's a nice piece of shoe anyway. I am moderately jealous that you pulled one.
It's cool of Panini to run these contests. They had another one that ended last night. I think I got my entry in just before the deadline, and they are giving away 10 boxes of stuff. I hope this is my lucky time. I try to enter the contests whenever I remember to check their blog and they have one going.
That Payton autograph is sweet!
ReplyDeleteI agree with Fuji. That Payton has a nice look to it.
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