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: 2018-19 Panini Threads NBA cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 7
Cards per pack: 5
Cards per box: 35
Base set completion: 20 of 100 (20 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Giannis Antetokounmpo, LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Aaron Gordon, Andrew Wiggins, Jayson Tatum, Kyle Lowry, Eric Bledsoe, Kyle Kuzma

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What's Buzzing Today: Big pulls, looking forward to 2020 Topps, the NFL Top 100 QB debate, Joe Burrow & more in today's edition.

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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 breaks and cool pulls 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: 2019-20 Panini Prizm NBA cards (Walmart Mega Box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (a few formats)

Packs per box: 11 (10 standard, one Pink Ice)
Cards per pack: 4 (10 in pink)
Cards in this box: 50
Base set completion: 
24 of 200 (12 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Larry Bird, Hakeem Olajuwon, Isiah Thomas, Kyle Lowry, C.J. McCollum, Buddy Hield, Jrue Holiday, Jimmy Butler, D'Angelo Russell

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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: Some unreal -- but totally legit -- Star Wars pulls, MLB breaks, new Optic NFL and plenty more in today's edition.

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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: Massive wax hauls, other break highlights and pondering which graded slab is better.

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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: Chasing Zion Williamson from fresh NBA boxes, big pulls and more surprises in today's holiday edition here on The Buzz.

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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: 2019-20 Panini Prizm NBA cards (blaster box)
First Buzz preview: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (a few formats)

Packs per box: 6
Cards per pack: 4
Cards in this box: 24
Base set completion: 
10 of 200 (5 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards – Kevin Garnett, Scottie Pippen, Kevin Love, Tracy McGrady, Jaren Jackson Jr., Markelle Fultz, Jusuf Nurkic, Kevin Knox II, Taurean Prince, Mario Hezonja

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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: A little bit of everything 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: 2019-20 Panini Prizm NBA cards (blaster box)
First Buzz preview: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (a few formats)

Packs per box: 6
Cards per pack: 4
Cards in this box: 24
Base set completion: 
9 of 200 (5 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards – Kemba Walker, Jayson Tatum, Brandon Ingram, DeMarre Carroll, Thon Maker, Bogdan Bogdanovic, Terrance Ferguson, Kelly Olynyk, Kevon Looney

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Buzz buys and busts a lot of boxes right here for Buzz Breaks, but one of my goals is to rip a little less and talk more about cardboard that I -- and you -- might like. One way to do that? Simple show and tell -- present a few pick-ups and say why they captured my attention. Would they capture yours? I'd be interested to know -- sometimes they might, sometimes they won't and that's fine. It's a buyer's market out there with plenty of options and bargains as well as high-end gems to chase.

So, with all that said, here are a few Buzz Buys ... and this time around it's the biggest roundup ever (in volume, not price).

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The Card: Tony Gwynn 2015 Panini Immaculate Collection Collegiate Memorabilia (/99)
The Price: $16.25
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: It took me a while to find one of these (only casually looking), but this card of the Baseball Hall of Famer is one of a few that show him in his other sport, basketball, which he played at San Diego State. His estate auctioned off a number of game-used pieces and other memorabilia in 2015, generating more than $217,000 partly going to the Tony and Alicia Gwynn Foundation to help kids in need. His first Aztecs basketball uniform went for $11,858 in that SCP Auctions sale and the buyer was Panini America. These cards aren't all that plentiful in this release -- and they certainly aren't the only place the swatches went as there are just 99 standard cards and a second one limited to five copies with a much larger prime swatch. The follow-up release to this one had a few more, including prime cards, and he also had posthumous autographed cards (stickers) showing him in his basketball uniform in a National Treasures release. Spoiler alert: you'll see one more of these here at some point.
Grab a box right here: 2015 Panini Immaculate Collection Collegiate (when available)

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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, collecting goals for 2020, a beginner talks grading and 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 new breaks and pulls from around the collecting world in today's edition.

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"The Latvian Laser" has been shooting things up on the court of late and there's one thing that matters right now with that.

Davis Bertans appears on just one Rookie Card.

That one comes from back in 2016-17 Panini Threads and it's got seven parallels and that's it for his standard NBA cardboard, though there is a very small sliver of stuff out there to collect. He's in his fourth NBA season and first with the Washington Wizards where he's averaging 15.8 points and 4.7 rebounds a game mostly coming off the bench. He spent the last three seasons with the San Antonio Spurs where his career-highs for a campaign included 8.0 points and 3.5 rebounds per last season.

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Panini America revealed on Thursday that it's looking toward blockchain ... next month.

They will be "the first officially licensed trading cards featuring blockchain technology," according to the company, and Panini Blockchain will showcase 100 notable players from the past and present into a release that will pair the technological to a physical card as well. They will arrive on Jan. 6 with a first wave of releases and each of the cards will be a 1/1 sold via Panini's site in U.S. funds only.

“We were very thorough and a number of factors were considered in selecting the players that will be released in our Panini trading cards that utilize blockchain technology,” said Mark Warsop, CEO of Panini America, in a prepared statement. “There is not a more iconic trading card than the rare 1909-11 Honus Wagner T206 baseball card. To be able to produce the first-ever Honus Wagner blockchain card, along with all of these other players utilizing blockchain technology and ensuring that these cards will now live forever in the digital realm, is truly an honor.”

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What's Buzzing Today: Chasing new Zion Williamson cards, pondering value of grading, Panini Prizm developments, new Star Trek breaks and more in today's edition.

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What: 2019-20 Panini Select basketball cards
Arrives: March 4
Box basics: Three autograph or memorabilia cards per 12-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Select hits the court with a tiered base set once again, a rainbow of parallels with unusual looks and plenty of hits for a new season and a new rookie class with, you know who ...

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 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: 2019-20 Panini Prizm NBA cards (Target Mega Box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 6
Cards per pack: 10
Cards in this box: 60
Base set completion: 
29 of 200 (15 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Luka Doncic, Wilt Chamberlain, Paul George, Vince Carter, Kristaps Porzingis, Allen Iverson, Ray Allen, Kyle Lowry, Draymond Green, Josh Jackson, C.J. McCollum, Jrue Holiday, Lou Williams, Mike Conley

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What's Buzzing Today: One Topps Mini pack with not one, not two, not three but four 1/1 parallels, the future for prospects and other big pulls in today's edition.

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What's Buzzing Today: Madison Bumgarner heads to Arizona, Corey Kluber packs for Texas, big pulls, even more Zion Williamson cardboard and checking in on the historic Houdini Superfractor pulls thread.

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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 recent NFL, MLB and non-sports breaks (Star Wars, Stranger Things and a high-ender) and 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: Big break highlights, bargain-hunting, Bowman Draft Sapphire and a talker of a thread.

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We should all know by now that 2019-20 Panini Prizm is a phenomenon when it comes to NBA cards this season -- and a global phenomenon, too, as the league with global appeal also now has Choice cards popping up now from elsewhere in the world.

If one opts to take the challenge to try and collect 'em all -- it might be tougher than ever with several formats in this release -- you'll need a total of 41 cards per player. That's a basic card and then 40 parallels -- and there are technically more as some players have photo variations (but we'll leave those be for now).

Zion Williamson is a clear and present force in this year's version -- however, he's not alone as it's a huge 300-card set of past and present players as well as rookies. That's a factor that also makes the challenge an interesting one, too, in that everything gets so spread out. Case in point? Not every version of even Williamson has surfaced and hit eBay just yet -- and he'd be more likely to show than, say, Kevin Huerter ... the guy I seem to keep finding in my packs.

Here's a look at what's out there for everybody in 2019-20 Panini Prizm ... and there are handy links to find the boxes, too.

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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: 2019-20 Panini Prizm NBA cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (a few formats)

Packs per box: 6
Cards per pack: 4
Cards in this box: 24
Base set completion: 
13 of 200 (7 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Hakeem Olajuwon, Lonzo Ball, Donovan Mitchell, Alfonzo McKinnie, Tyler Johnson, Tim Hardaway Jr., Dion Waiters, Aaron Gordon, Kris Dunn, LaMarcus Aldridge, JaVale McGee, Emmanuel Mudiay

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What's Buzzing Today: New breaks -- big and small -- as well as Panini Prizm, collectors react to a new type of NFL scandal and ... players who you thought were good but were not.

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