2013-14 Panini Select Basketball Cards

I started collecting about 1993 in Australia, my first card was Jordan base 1990 skybox, i collected up to 1996
And then got back into cards on and off 2006-2010.

I started collecting them again in 2015, Was a little disappointed UD didnt make cards as much and Panini was new to me,
So i went in a few breaks and found that the 2013/14 Select looked great, so i brought a case for myself and then i was set on collecting the master set,
Base, Prizm, Purple, Blue , Gold and Green and set my goal at 100 Black 1/1 from the set,
Having 4558 cards in the hole set i set the goa
To get 3859, without the blacks.

To date its been a change and a bit to find most of the cards, biggest thing that annoys me is the players that dont sign the redemption cards ,
Kyrie Irving only signed a few types,
Roy Hibbert only signed a few,
Jon Leuer never signed his cards
Derrick Coleman never signed
Serge Ibarka’s seem to never made it into the boxes at all even redemptions.

The hardest cards to find are,

White Hot Base cards
Stars Gold, Green and Black
Skyhigh, gold, green and Black.

My set at the moment sits at 550 cards needed for everything to be completed from Base to Green
I need
2 base
2 Prizm
11 Purple
15 Blue
174 Gold
351 Green est

And i have found 55 Black 1/1 cards,
Panini have been great with my Redemptions and i hope one day i can completely finish everything ,Blacks might take a while,
I think i have the biggest 2013/14 SELECT collection in the world, thanks for letting me review.

Panini has done it again! Great looking product, the cards are just outstanding, but they again missed the mark and will fine very little interest in this set from the general public. Only very high end collectors who have a lot of money will be buying these boxes at the prices I have seen all over the internet.

Panini continues to price out the young collectors and the average working man who is a hobbyist.

Than factor in the fact that this set has over 1057 base set inserts and that is not counting the parallels by the way. It will cost you big dollars to complete this set!

I can’t figure out why and how Panini keeps cranking out products so high priced and so close to each other.

Select, Donruss, Gold Standard, and two other sets out right now have similar scenarios, I don’t think anyone’s buying them. I see lots of cards sites having to reduce prices to sell stock they have been stuck with when buying lots of cases. Don’t Panini care or don’t they check to see how they are single handedly killing the hobby!

Select nice cards, overpriced, impossible to complete the set without a lot of money! I will not be buying!

I agree with Ryan insomuch that I gave
up collecting all cards in a set many years ago.
Like him, I just collect what I REALLY want and have enjoyed things much more than I did.

Since 2013-14 releases have come to an end
and 2014-15 basketball is coming out a few
days with NBA Hoops, I thought for the fun of it, I would rate some of my favorite sets/inserts for 2013-14.

My favorite product for the season was Select
by a lot. The technology, the variety of parallels, inserts and autos of my favorite players made it so.

Second came Prizm for many of the reasons
described above. Most probably don’t know
that there was a deep blue insert parallel that
was an unnumbered one of one. That was
pretty cool to chase until people caught on.

Third best product overall was Innovation, then Immaculate, Innovation, Gold Standard and finally Spectra, which to me was a
disappointment.

Best looking base set was Intrigue, followed
by Hoops with their great action shots.

Favorite parallel(s) was Select, followed by
Prizm.

Immaculate overshadows Flawless with bigger
and better patches at a lesser cost.

My choice for best inserts:

1) Innovation Legends Starters; educational,
nice looking. I hope Panini does more themes
like this.

2) Select Stars; the parallels of 99, 49, 10 & 5
are beautiful.

3) Prestige Play Makers; the deep black etched looking cards are awesome looking.

4) Select Red Hot & White Hot # to 99. Just
love the use of the pulsar technology.

5) Prizm Guard Duty parallels. Simple & nice.

6) Innovation Stained Glass; all versions.
Reminiscent of Topps Gallery of Heroes.

7) Timeless Treasures; Timeless Teams.

8) Pinnacle; Team Pinnacle. Beautiful look.

9) Court Kings: Legacies.

10) Gold Standard; Claim to Fame.

-Biggest disappointments were Crusade and
Titanium. I would much rather have Marquee
in their place.

Be interested in knowing what other collectors’ favorites were.

2013-14 Panini Select Basketball Cards set has 61 insert & parallel set after you complete the base set, my lord is Panini America kidding? No sports card collector will inserts in the time or money to complete this set with that many insert/parallels.
With the hobby box break down of: 2 Autographs, 2 Memorabilia Cards, 6 Prizm Parallels and base cards for a total of 84 cards it might be a life time before you finish this set.

Just the latest over prices boxes and sets from Panini who has flooded the market and made Basketball cards worth less as there prices for cases and inserts go up. As nice as the Select cards are it’s totally not worth the time, cost or effort in collecting this set.

I have been a private collector of only Basketball cards going back to 1950. I have completed also most every set of cards until Panini took over the industry with the tons and tons of over prices cards and sets. I guess they never met an insert set they didn’t like!
I completed the Select base set but will not be wasting any time with the 61 insert & parallel sets in the 2013/2014 Select set. I wonder if Panini ever reads any reviews.

I have been collecting ball cards for over 40
years, and personally, this is the nicest
looking basketball card product I have ever
seen. The pulsar technology is amazing and
I have been hoping Panini would apply this
to their basketball product. It was well worth
the weight. Judging by the auctions on
Ebay, this is a very hot product. I love that
Panini has so many different versions of the
league’s most popular players. The inserts
are beautiful and well themed. The Sky High
insert stands out with the pulsar and blue
refractor versions, as does the Stars insert,
as some of the nicest inserts I have ever seen.

Lebron alone has so many inserts to
chase. He is in Skills, Red Hot, White Hot and
Sky High as well as a pulsar and refractor
version of his jersey swatch.

The selection of autos could have been better but they are beautiful in their pulsar
and refractor versions. Panini also seems to
make a more concerted effort with this
product to get the autos on the card rather
than stickers.

If I had any suggestions it would be to use
the same technology to do old school
players in a base set and inserts. I beg that
Panini would put together an ABA product
utilizing the pulsar-prizm technology. With
the red-white & blue ball, it would be so
awesome.

I purposely waited to do a review on this
product until I had a lot of it in hand. I am
just giddy over it. With this year’s Select,
I can now honestly say I don’t miss Fleer,
Topps and Upper Deck basketball.

Now, what will Panini do next as an encore?

Take a bow, you deserve it Panini.

Panini’s auto checklist for 2013-14 has been using lots of retired players. I wish they can concentrate more on current superstars and RC with 2nd year players say class of 11-12 and 12-13. They need to do a retired players products for those who collect them. I like current players and prefer not to have them mixed in the same product.

As a middle product, it is skewed a little bit to high end. The best way to build sets is having a case break. hit less gets the base cards.

Designs of select through the years remained consistent, Panini improvement can be seen each year and hopefully continue to listen to what consumer wants.

Not a big fan of White Hot, perhaps this could be included in Prizm as an insert. nothing essential as a product insert that would entice buyers.

Improve: auto selection. Players that mattered are relatively few and reduce the number of insignificant players. Research should be made to only include All Stars, Starters or Championship winners.