Wednesday, August 27, 2025

2024-25 Panini NBA Sticker and Card Collection

 

Panini is back with another round of NBA basketball album stickers to collect. I picked up a box of these along with an order of Panini Points redemptions to make myself feel better about having to pay to ship what are intended to be free replacement cards.


367 - Dalton Knecht - Knecht had a few big games early on in his rookie season, enough to make him briefly fantasy-relevant. Panini modifies their completely made up 'RC' shield to read 'RS' on these, as in "Rookie Sticker".


451 - Domantas Sabonis - Sabonis is one of the stars of today's game, especially from a fantasy basketball perspective.


384 - Ja Morant - This year's foil cards are kind of an eyesore. The background kind of looks like a printer that is running low on ink.


159 - Dalen Terry - I don't really know much about Terry, but I haven't watched a lot of Bulls games recently.


226 - Tyler Smith - Another rookie, er, RS!


7 - Fred VanVleet (Card) - As in the past several years, each pack includes one full-sized card. The design is basically the same aside from the addition of the Panini logo in the upper left-hand corner.

1 comment:

Jafronius said...

I haven't seen many Bulls games either, and I live in the Chicago area!

In reality, the Bulls, White Sox, and Blackhawks formed a new cable outlet, CHSN, a year or so ago when NBC Sports Chicago folded. They couldn't come to terms with Comcast, the major cable provider here, so the majority of the Chicagoland area couldn't watch games from any of those teams. They agreed to terms recently, but CHSN is on one of the higher cable tiers so still not many are going to get it.