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What's Buzzing Today: The game-used card debate, huge pulls and more as we head into the weekend.

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What: 2017-18 Panini Court Kings basketball cards
Arrives: Dec. 6
Box basics: One autograph and one memorabilia card per 10-card box (16 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here to view

What's buzz-worthy: The colorful release that is Court Kings is back with a simple approach that packs the artistry of the game on a variety of cards inside every box -- a set that Panini says is "the most-artistic cards in the world."

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What: 2017-18 Totally Certified basketball cards
Arrives: Dec. 13
Box basics: One autograph and one memorabilia card per eight-pack box (16 boxes per case via two inners)
Checklist: Click here to view

What's buzz-worthy: One of Panini's more colorful foil-board creations is back for another year with on-card autos of top rookies and some new designs.

Keep reading for more info and a full gallery of images released so far.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Fake Trout (gotta love that merchandise sticker), big pulls and plenty of collecting chatter.

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The first of the First Off The Line products from Panini America is here.

What's First Off The Line? It's a new program where a small fraction of the print run for a product arrives early with an extra inside the boxes carrying the program's notation.

The first product for this experiment of sorts sold out quickly via Panini and it's 2016-17 Panini Immaculate Collection, and it includes green in every box.

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What: 2017-18 Panini Prizm basketball cards
Arrives: Nov. 15
Box basics: Two autographs per 12-pack hobby box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here to view

What's buzz-worthy: The full details are here for the newest edition of Prizm, which will include all of the new rookies and plenty of color.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Collecting challenges, challenging conversations, big pulls and huge first basketball box finds.

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What: 2017-18 Panini Ascension basketball cards
Arrives: Nov. 22
Box basics: One autograph per 12-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Panini reveals a new line that it says is "one of the most distinct and colorful sets to hit the hobby."

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Big finds in recently released was -- and a pull of a lifetime turns into ...

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and break down the results here. Like this and want to see more -- or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2017 Panini Contenders Draft Picks basketball (blaster)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 7
Cards per pack: 6
Cards in this box: 42
Base set completion: 
26 of 100* (26 percent)
Duplicates: 2

Notable base cards – Magic Johnson, Malcolm Brogdon, Kobe Bryant, Kawhi Leonard, John Wall, Joel Embiid, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Dirk Nowitzki, Damian Lillard, Buddy Hield (two versions), Anthony Davis, Andrew Wiggins, Paul George, Larry Bird, Kristaps Porzingis, Klay Thompson

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Big pulls, oldschool wax, The Walking Dead, best retail breaks ever and "is Trevor Siemian the next Tom Brady?" revisited.

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What: 2017-18 NBA Hoops basketball cards
Arrives: Oct. 25
Box basics: Two autograph cards per 24-pack hobby box (20 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here to view
Order: Click here for hobby & retail formats

What's buzz-worthy: The NBA season tips off on cardboard with this release and we now have full details on what will be found at retail and hobby for this release as well as Donruss.

Keep reading for more info and a full gallery of images released so far ...

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and break down the results here. Like this and want to see more -- or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2015 Panini Contenders Draft Picks basketball (blaster)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)

Packs per box: 7
Cards per pack: 6
Cards in this box: 42
Base set completion: 
12 of 100 (12 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards – Vince Carter, Kyrie Irving, Russell Westbrook, Tim Duncan, Rajon Rondo, Julius Randle, Noah Vonleh, Mason Plumlee, Tyler Hansbrough, Mo Williams, Wesley Matthews, Al-Farouq Aminu

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Do you like Buzz Breaks? Today's your day then as we launch 12 in 12 -- a series of a dozen breaks of past wax boxes and wax packs in a dozen hours. We'll post one every hour on the hour all day long today ... this is Hour 10.

The box: 2015 Panini Contenders Draft Picks basketball (blaster)
The cost: $15 (click here for hobby)

What's inside this one? Keep reading ...

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Do you like Buzz Breaks? Today's your day then as we launch 12 in 12 -- a series of a dozen breaks of past wax boxes and wax packs in a dozen hours. We'll post one every hour on the hour all day long today ... this is Hour 6.

The box: 1994-95 Signature Rookies Kro-Max basketball
The cost now: $19.95
The cost then: $180 ($5 per pack?!?!)

What's inside this one? Keep reading ...

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Do you like Buzz Breaks? Today's your day then as we launch 12 in 12 -- a series of a dozen breaks of past wax boxes and wax packs in a dozen hours. We'll post one every hour on the hour all day long today ... this is Hour 3.

The box: 2007-08 Press Pass Legends basketball (blaster)
The cost: $19.95

What's inside this one? Keep reading ...

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What: 2016-17 Panini Flawless basketball cards
Arrives: Oct. 18 Nov. 3
Box basics: One encased base diamond card or parallel, one encased auto, six other autos, one memorabilia card and one auto-mem-diamond card per 10-card briefcase (two boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Flawless is back with more than one diamond in every case and plenty of what collectors have come to expect from the high-end brand -- autographs and memorabilia.

Keep reading for more info and a full gallery of images released so far.

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What: 2017-18 Panini Prizm basketball cards
Arrives: TBD
Box basics: Details below

What's buzz-worthy: We've got early word on some of the retail inclusions to come in Panini America's newest version of Prizm and its various pack formats away from the hobby shop.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Big pulls from Contenders, Heritage High Number and more ... along with a "custom" card that crosses a few lines.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Nothing but breaks -- new and old -- in today's edition.

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2016-17 Panini Studio NBA cards (hobby box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 10
Cards per pack: 6
Cards in this box: 60
Base set completion: 49 of 300 (16 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notable players on base cards – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, LeBron James (two types), Julius Erving, Stephen Curry, John Havlicek (two types), Joel Embiid, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Isiah Thomas, Scottie Pippen, Karl Malone, James Harden, Damian Lillard, Kevin Love, Brook Lopez

Rookie Cards (14) – Ben Simmons, Kris Dunn,  Jamal Murray, Marquese Chriss (two types, Denzel Valentine, Buddy Hield, Dragan Bender, Brandon Ingram, Taurean Prince, Patrick McCaw, Isaiah Whitehead, Juan Hernangomez, Henry Ellenson, DeAndre' Bembry

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What: 2016-7 Panini Immaculate Collection basketball cards
Arrives: Oct. 4
Box basics:  Five autographs or memorabilia cards per six-card box (five boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Immaculate is back with "the most-diverse collection of game-worn memorabilia sets of the year" and plenty more as you can see from the card above.

Keep reading for more info and a full gallery of images released so far.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Big pulls, Bryce Harper's hair and ... card-sorting robots?

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: J.D. Martinez and Robbie Ray have big nights, Dak Prescott's hot Prizm parallel, Tim Tebow rainbows and plenty more.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Nothing but big pulls as we wind down a holiday weekend.

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