2013-14 Panini Intrigue Basketball Cards

Probably THE best value basketball product on the market right now.

Around $65 a box (give or take) gets you a nice looking product that constantly delivers on a per-box and per-case basis.

There are at least 3 or 4 different sets(Winning Ink, Slam Ink, Immortalized Autographs, and I think one more) which feature on-card autographs – quite a rarity for a Panini product at this price point.

Most of those on-card autos also seem to be short printed to 49 or less, which is also excellent for a product that sells for $65 a box (and around $6 per card). A box of National Treasures or Immaculate will set you back about 10x that price, and you have about the same probability of pulling a tacky sticker auto.

The inclusion of the Intriguing players bonus packs only adds to the product because it gives you a break from the typical auto / memorability / base pattern, and unlike a lot of other Panini products (where parallels all look the same, just a different color border or text color) the Gold/Platinum parallels in this set look different enough to make them genuinely fun to chase.

They Gold / Platinum parallels also are just about the right amount of difficult to get – you typically get anywhere from 1-3 of them per 10 box case which is great because it makes them rare enough to feel like a nice hit, yet common enough that you actually feel you have a shot at getting one.

There’s also a pretty good selection of players, which is also rare in a low cost Panini product. Pulling hits of unknown players does happen here and there, but they aren’t as common as in most Panini stuff, and there is a nice balance between rookies, current stars and historic players to offer something for everybody.

As far as design, I like that the product features a nice classic, timeless design. It’s not over the top and tacky (like some Prizm stuff) yet not too stuffed with white (like NT . Immac / Flawless, etc).

Overall, I find it very hard to fault this product once to take into account the price point it sells at these days. It’s a product that is affordable enough to make cases legitimately accessible, and if you check out some of the case breaks on YouTube you will see that cases of this stuff rarely ever fails to deliver.

This is a great box of cards.You can get the players redemption cards from the best draft class ever.So many chances to get the first redemption card of Joel Embiid,Andrew Wiggins,Jabari Parker.The rookie xchange is amazing.Great price just over $110 for a box.It’s well worth it.5 stars rating.

Boring. No regular rookie cards that I can
find in the ‘base’ set. Last year, Lillard made
the base set and he and Kyrie made the
Intriguing Players.

Panini could have made this a four to five star
product by pattering the Intriguing Players
after its Prizm product. Use orange, green,
blue, red, etc., to create more inserts/chase
cards. Because other than autos/jersey cards, there are only the Intriguing Players as inserts. Blah………..

For Winning Ink,

Two Words:

Shawn Marion.