Basketball season may have come to a rest, but not the cards. They are still flying off the shelves and new releases continue to come.
Let's see how today's box break went with a box of Elite.
Every box of 2020-2021 Elite basketball comes with 20 packs of 5 cards each. Each box guarantees 2 autographs and a good amount of parallels. Boxes run about $350 and like the 2019-20 set, 2020-21 Donruss Elite Basketball will be sold
through Panini’s website.
BASE:
Elite has stuck with a pretty simple layout design over the years made up with a lot of foil. Some years it's plain and other years there is a shine.
This years base design is back to the shine and even adds a little bit of background photo.
The base set is built up of 100 base cards of veterans.
And 50 rookies numbered to 299 which makes for an overall base chase of 150 cards. I like how this base set is built. You are not going to find a rookie card in every pack and the numbering adds some value to not on the card itself, but to a set chase of the product.
Well done.
PARALLELS:
There are plenty of shiny parallels to find in Elite, but the good part is, there isn't an overwhelming about like you can find in some products.
Find the following, Red, Blue /99, Aspirations /99 or less, Status /94 or less, Purple /49, Gold /10 and Black 1/1.
Blue /99
Blue /99
Purple /49 (solid pull!)
Purple /49
Aspirations die cut /99
Aspirations die cut /99
INSERTS
The inserts in this years Elite are fun, colorful, and shiny.
This Jokic Star Status is one of 20 cards in the set.
Primary Colors has only 10 in the set. This is the best of them to find..if only Panini had MJ rights.
Power Formulas has 30 cards to collect in the set.
And returning again for another year in Elite is Spellbound. Featuring 9 players this year, the Spellbounds spell out a players first or last name once collected all from the set.
HITS:
Elite is loaded with some great ink, but my box didn't contain any of the top ink in the set. It instead had some interesting signatures.
RJ Hampton. Nope, not that Hampton I collect but what a short to the point signature he has.
And then comes this Cam Reddish. Is this possibly the worst signed card you have ever seen? It literally looks like he was up late one night trying to get these done and fell asleep and the sharpie slid across the sticker. Charles Barkley would say these are TURRRRIBLE.
OVERALL THOUGHTS:
I really like the build up of the overall product. Design is one of the better Elite ones and I liked the fact the players name can actually be read in this foil use.
The value of this break was a little rough, but it was nice finding a Zion, something I didn't have much luck with in the previous years products.
Let me know your thoughts on Reddish's autograph and the product as a whole in comments.
Stay tuned for some giveaways from Elite coming up soon either on here or on Twitter.
