What: 2020-21 Panini Origins basketball cards
Arrives: April 14
Box basics: One rookie jersey auto and one other auto or mem card per seven-card box (12 boxes per case)
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What's buzz-worthy: Origins hits the hardwood for its sophomore season with a new crop of rookies (mocks here use last year's players) and plenty of ink and energy.

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What's Buzzing: PSA raises prices, eBay Bucks are going away on everyday buys, big pulls and more in today's edition.

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What's Buzzing: Big pulls from MLB and NFL boxes, more breaks, NBA chatter and showing off MLB "investment wax boxes" in today's edition.

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What's Buzzing: New pulls, vintage gems, talkin' baseball and more in this midnight-drop edition.

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What's Buzzing: Imaginary cardboard, big pulls, possible scamming with vending boxes, Project70 and more.

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What: 2020-21 Panini Prizm basketball cards
Arrives: April 28
Box basics: Two autographs per 12-pack hobby box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: A new year of Prizm arrives with the same format as last year but with a new crop of rookies (just an early mock or two in gallery using last year's players) and some new nods to the rich history of the brand.

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What's Buzzing: Big pulls, break highlights, player pumps and "You're the president of sports cards ... what are your executive orders?"

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What's Buzzing: Joel Embiid drops 50, a Target hobby box for the win, looking back, 2021 Topps and more.

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Today's the day ... Pro Set returns. No, really. Look for details later today.

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What's Buzzing: Carson Wentz to the Colts, cost of your priciest cards, storing said cards, costs and limits of grading, NBA breaks and ... ripping 25 Garbage Pail Kids Sapphire Edition boxes.

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The box: 2020-21 NBA Hoops basketball cards (blaster box)
First Buzz preview & checklist: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)

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What's Buzzing: Fernando Tatis Jr. got paid, Tim Tebow retired, 2021 Topps, soccer breaks, NBA drops and "best football cards to buy right now."

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What's Buzzing: Project70 arrives today, pondering parameters, 2021 Topps breaks and more in today's edition.

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What's Buzzing: Big players in the collecting game along with the Goldin Auctions news, big breaks, picking one MLB set and more in today's edition.

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What's old is new again ... at least in some basketball card boxes found in the retail aisle.

That sums up the SLAM magazine insert cards in packs of 2020-21 Panini Hoops, which recently arrived with a look back at 20 past covers from the long-running magazine.

It's a simple lineup -- 20 covers -- in this first go, but there are five parallels of each one to chase and there's some competition to land a number of them over on eBay if you're like Buzz and haven't spotted anything yet out in the wild on the wax front.

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What's Buzzing: New breaks -- 2021 Topps and more -- player-pumping, WWE chatter and a triple-auto Hoops box?

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What's Buzzing: New breaks, old breaks, NBA and MLB chatter, market optimism and more.

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What's Buzzing: Texans are dumping J.J. Watt? That and more in today's edition.

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What's Buzzing: Day 2 of 2021 Topps, big pulls, a legendary NFL break's pics, NBA and WWE in today's edition.

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What's Buzzing: 2021 Topps Series 1 is here, NBA and NASCAR breaks and more in today's edition.

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What's Buzzing: Super Bowl LV chatter, NFL breaks, Kelce vs. Gronk and plenty more in today's edition.

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The box: 2019-20 NBA Hoops Premium Stock (Walmart mega box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for a few formats)

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What's Buzzing: Basic questions and an ever-changing collecting game fuel today's threads.

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What's Buzzing: Super Bowl LV, new PSA standouts, the grading divide, NBA chatter, Fully Loaded and some new soccer break highlights.

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This one is a new department here on The Buzz ... Fast Five -- a quick list under a simple topic that might offer a basic starting point for a themed collection. It's a basic list of five items that could be fun for a starting collector or a new way to add to a stash that might already seemingly include everything when it comes to cardboard. For some of you, it's probably common sense. For others of you out there, it's perhaps something to ponder.

This time? Five autographs I'd grab now

STARTING OFF DELUXE
Any 2017 Patrick Mahomes autograph
We'll start off with the super-pricey option here but it's not about the money with this choice ... it's about what may not be coming back ... at least for the time being. Patrick Mahomes' second Super Bowl could further launch demand for his autographs in general but if I were to chase one (with any size of pockets) it would be something from his rookie season for cardboard, 2017. Why? His handwriting and his autograph has changed a lot since then -- you can make out a "Patrk Mah" above, but that's light years above what it's now ... more of a P-line-curl-line-curl (at right from a 2020 card). Part of that change is just demand for his time -- a faster sig is inevitable and needed -- and some of this pick of mine comes from the fact that the more he wins and the higher his profile gets, the lower-volume his autos will get while the fees to sign (for his time, also in high demand) also rise. It doesn't happen often, but there's a chance this sig could intentionally revert back ... but I doubt it. Maybe in 20 years, he'll sign more and have a full sig ... maybe ... if he does signings at all. (It would be more choice than for the cash with his record contract, that's for sure.) I'd look at 2017 Elite Draft Picks autos perhaps first here even if they are college uni and stickers -- there are some fuller sigs to be found. Of course, right now everything is pricey ... eBay asking prices for premium 2017 autos are in six-figures ... but this pick is about the ink, not the card. I'd stick to cards ... and avoid all of the illegal (fake) reprints, too.

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What's Buzzing: Stashed "investment wax boxes," big pulls, BGS vs. PSA, that one guy and a fake Mike Schmidt Rookie Card.

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