Buzz Break: 2019-20 Panini Mosaic NBA (mega box)

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The box: 2019-20 Panini Mosaic NBA cards
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Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery of what was in this one ...

Packs per box: 10
Cards per pack: 8
Cards in this box: 80
Base set completion: 30 of 200 (15 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Trae Young, John Collins, D'Angelo Russell, Klay Thompson, Blake Griffin, Jaren Jackson Jr.

Inserts/short-prints: 50 (all in gallery below)
Rookie Cards (SP) (15) – Cam Reddish, Tyler Herro, Admiral Schofield, Eric Paschall, Luka Samanic, Nassir Little, Ky Bowman, Goga Bitadze, Cameron Johnson, Terance Mann, Kyle Guy, Jarrett Culver, Cody Martin, Darius Garland, Matisse Thybulle
NBA Debut (SP) (6) – Ja Morant, Cam Reddish, Coby White, Kendrick Nunn, Jordan Poole, Tacko Fall
MVPs (SP) (2) – Giannis Antetokounmpo, Wilt Chamberlain
Hall of Fame (SP) (4) – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Pete Maravich, Oscar Robertson, John Stockton
USA Basketball (SP) (3) – Vince Carter, Dwyane Wade, Magic Johnson
Jam Masters (1) – Zach LaVine
Will To Win (1) – Giannis Antetokounmpo
Old School (1) – Allen Iverson
Got Game? (1) – Karl-Anthony Towns
Give and Go (1) – Jrue Holiday
Silver Prizm parallel (1) – Frank Ntilikina, Gary Harris
Silver Mosaic Prizm parallel (1) – Kentavious Caldwell-Pope
Silver Mosaic Prizm USA Basketball parallel (1) – Patrick Ewing
Reactive Blue Mosaic Prizm parallel (7) – Giannis Antetokounmpo, Aron Baynes, Donte DiVincenzo, D.J. Augustin, Taj Gibson, Anthony Davis
Reactive Blue Mosaic Prizm Rookie Card parallel (2) – Grant Williams, Isaiah Roby
Reactive Blue Mosaic Prizm NBA Debut parallel (1) – Cameron Johnson
Reactive Blue Mosaic Prizm Hall of Fame parallel (1) – Julius Erving
Genesis Mosaic Prizm NBA Debut parallel (1) – Nicolo Melli

Autographs/Memorabilia: None

What's Buzz-worthy: Barring some freak occurrence of a retail find, this will be my final mega box break for this one and I'm finishing with a bang as this nearly A+ box included a rare Genesis parallel of a NBA Debut card as well as a few appearances from Giannis Antetokounmpo and some key rookies. I didn't land any of the biggest guy, Zion Williamson, but the volume of main names was impressive. And that's the key with this format -- volume. As I said before, you get so much in these boxes -- starting with huge packs -- and they deliver enough volume that key names will pop up more often. You get double the number of cards per pack and 10 packs per box here -- that's the same as two and a half blasters, which is why these boxes are a little pricier out in the wild. The basic design here is super simple -- almost oldschool Pacific in its feel -- but with a Prizm approach. The basic set is 200 cards and then the 100 topping that are from a number of subsets that arrive relatively often together but I'll note them as SPs here. ... This format includes Pink Fluorescent Mosaic Prizms (/10) -- I landed an Orange (/25) in my first blaster -- and they include a good volume of the Reactive Blue cards (one per pack) but they seem more like red cards to me. (Just saying.) The weird part of my Genesis find here? I actually ended up finding three of them in three different box formats in the same day ... had they been for big names? Well, I'd be busting a lot more boxes of this one -- but they are rare enough they still sell pretty well for lesser names.

Product Grade: A-
Box Grade: A (Genesis parallel and some other key names power this one)
Fun Grade: A-

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