2013-14 Panini Basketball Cards

funny reading these comments from 2014. if only they knew that Hoops would cost $150 a box in 2020 and Giannis would keep this product alive through the ages.

I LIKE PANINI CARDS I HAVE A 145 CARDS COLLECTIONS

This year’s Panini base set is all in all a nice collection of cards. The design of the base set is somewhat simple but looks nice and clean. The inserts are pretty nice looking as well. The Bird’s Eye View inserts are the highlight of the inserts in my opinion and feature some truly eye-catching photography.

I bought a hobby box and received all but about 3 of the 200 base cards. I got every rookie card in the set since nowadays you can pull two rookies in a single pack… I pulled a Nate Thurmond Auto along with one from Dwight Buycks of the Raptors.

This set works well for set collectors and those who prefer quantity over rarity. So for the lower end basketball cards in the market, I think that the 2013-2014 Panini set is among the best released this year.

This set has way too many insets and sub sets to be worth the time and effort to collect, forget about the cost which is high as well. There are way too many repeated card and unneeded inserts in this set. Panini is becoming very uncollectable and has lost connection with the general card collated!

If you look at the very first card in the gallery, Kevin Durant, the background looks as if the same older gentleman is in two different seats at the same time. He has a blue shirt with glasses one image of him to Durant left, and the other to Durant right.

This is a very good product, nice inserts, good large base set, not too expensive….good job Panini.

Awesome inserts for being a mid level hobby box

Even for a low end product, putting the name Panini as a brand make this product weak.

The only way to improve this product is to gain a marketing niche to differentiate from other Panini related brands.

Since Panini was a late entry in the basketball card, why not put up a Championship teams as a box set (similar to what they did for 2011 Dallas Mavericks) included in this brand. For instance, they could include the 2000 Lakers up to current. I know Panini can’t get the big one from the 90’s, so the Bulls are definitely out. But they can still get the 1994 and 1995 Rockets.

Or they could mix aside from Championship roster, Panini could mix draft class like 1994 NBA Draft Class with 2004 NBA Draft Class and 2014 NBA Draft Class.

There are many way Panini need to do but however those managers they hire doesn’t even know what they are doing.

Overall, there is potential for this product but it needs a little tweak.