Buzz Break: 2018-19 Panini Prizm NBA cards (mega box)

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The box: 2018-19 Panini Prizm NBA cards (mega box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (all formats)

Packs per box: 11 (10 standard, one 10-card Pink Ice Prizms pack)
Cards per pack: 4
Cards in this box: 50
Base set completion: 
26 of 200 (13 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, Bill Russell, Dwyane Wade, Lonzo Ball, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jimmy Butler, Blake Griffin

Insert/short-print cards: 23 (all in gallery below)
Rookie Cards (3) -- Luka Doncic, Landry Shamet, Hamidou Diallo
Silver Prizm parallel (3) – Taj Gibson, Marvin Williams, Pascal Siakam
Pink Ice Prizm parallel (10) – Dwyane Wade, Aaron Gordon, Yao Ming, Andrew Wiggins, Kyle Kuzma, Serge Ibaka, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, Gorgui Dieng, D'Angelo Russell, Marcin Gortat
Get Hyped! (1) – Stephen Curry
Dominance (1) – Clyde Drexler
Emergent (2) – Donte DiVincenzo, Troy Brown Jr.
Emergent Prizms (1) – Jaren Jackson Jr.
Freshman Phenoms (1) – Kevin Knox
Hall Monitors (1) – Shaquille O'Neal

Autographs/Memorabilia: 1
Prizm Autographs (1) -- Kevin McHale

What's Buzz-worthy: This is an A+ box in my book but it started with a scare and it started rough. My Pink bonus pack? It was wedged sideways in the box with the bottom and the top of the cards against the front and back panels of the box. I feared mangled cardboard when seeing that. Then, it went rookie-less and those guys are the big draws here. That resulted in a few expletives muttered as it's clearly a Luka Doncic hunt here. The Cardboard Gods calmed me down though as the first pack I ripped yielded the view you see above. Deep into the box, this one coughed up parallel ink of a Hall of Famer and NBA at 50 player -- with hits not guaranteed in these boxes. ... As said before, more Silvers, more Rookie Cards and a meaty pack of colorful parallels only found here -- those are the selling points for this $35 mega box (Walmart version). The color of parallel? Pink Ice. These boxes also guarantee three Silver Prizms and there are no other colors to get in their way unlike blasters, where colors there can replace the sought-after standard parallel. It appears that rookie autos can be found here --  standard and Silver -- and inserts here have Silver and Green parallels to chase. More packs here means more chances at hot RCs such as Doncic (a 1:100 box chance at his pricey Silver if perfect collation and 1:30 boxes for Pink). You get more volume here but no guaranteed hit like in blasters so depending what you're chasing there are options with this brand. The hobby boxes guarantee ink and a lot of color (hit that link above) but if you're a little more on the fence or don't want to spend a lot, these mega boxes are solid options with good potential. This box delivered well.

Product Grade: A-
Box Grade: A+
Fun Grade: A-

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