This is a card I could not afford to buy as a single had I not pulled it! Wiggins is considered the best talent to come into the NBA since LeBron James, and he is the defending Rookie of the Year (Not that you can really win that again). My first autograph out of the box.was this one! You get two autographs in each hobby box of Hoops on average. It's the best "hit" I've had in the NBA since 2003 when I pulled Kobe Bryant's autograph. I know I always go on about base cards, and how great they are, and how I don't chase hits.but I pulled a really great hit from this box and I think I will lead off with that one. In each pack you get one Rookie and one non-base card, which is either a parallel or an insert. Panini doesn't really have a good track record of not giving you multiple duplicates in a box but this is the second year in a row for Hoops where that was the case. They were the only duplicates to be found in the entire box, which is a nice thing. They are packed 13 cards per pack, but marked 12 as they apparently don't count the one-per-pack Panini Dunk info card. Blue and Red are retail exclusive, and Black are 1/1 so I did not get any of those. The Green and Gold are my favorites, the Red Back is kind of pointless- I would really rather they got rid of them and gave us more Gold and/or Green. I got only 1 Green, 3 Gold, 4 Red Back, 2 Silver and 1 Artist Proof. Parallels are much harder to get this year, which is a shame as they look better than ever. That isn't a bad thing although it does give some unexpected angles- and some interesting shots of the arena you don't see too often, which I will show below. Another thing to note, not necessarily an oddity, is that a lot of images are taken looking up at the players- clearly from the photographers you see sitting along the baseline at every game. I didn't do any math on it, and indeed I don't have all the cards, but it seems like about 1/3rd of them have the Cavs in the background. A couple of oddities about the set- a large portion of the cards were taken with the Cavaliers as the opponent. (I wanted to get it fully scanned before I posted about it). It sure makes it easy to scan them, which I like- I scanned my entire box in 3 days worth of effort. The design this year is nice, it features a white border but not the traditional border shape. This is my only real complaint about the set, which otherwise is perfect. For some reason Panini refuses to make any sets larger than 300 cards. I really like the Hoops brand- it's always my favorite set of the season, mostly due to the fact that it includes the most players, although it still ignores at least 100. The new NBA season is here, as the first card release has hit and my mom gave me a box of it as a late birthday present- really made me happy! Originally it was scheduled to come out on the 14th, but they pushed it back to the 21st.
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