2018-19 Panini Court Kings Basketball Cards

Bought 4 boxes total, two at 2 different visits. Pulled 2 Luka Heir Apparent Auto’s and 1 Trae Young Auto. It’s a cheap product with some cool designs. Sometimes you get a great card, sometimes not.

Opened 45 packets of these today and got nothing even slightly worth mentioning. Felt very underwhelming and a waste of money.

I bought a case of this and hoping to land one Luka RC base card. 10 cards per box and with 16 boxes, I have high hopes to get at least one RC with 160 card chances.

Alas not a single Luka in sight, this shows how horrible Panini is doing with their collation. Since Luka was not around, I was hoping to land a single Trae Young and alas he also is absent on my entire case.

Who did I get in my entire case? Lots of Jevon Carter, Khryi Thomas, Bruce Brown and other non-notable Rookies.

If you are not happy with the product, how I wish I could get my money back. Panini please have a collation system that is EQUALLY distributed to make buying fun for many collectors out there. You are destroying the hobby by not improving your service. (there are other basketball card company who could do a better job if you are not apt for it)

Improve for Court Kings:
Less sticker autos, less veteran autos unless they are HOF or current All Star or from a championship team. Ensure each case contain good amount of notable RC. Why not seed at least one per case.

Bought a case of this and find that this product is just below average. Here is why?

1. Design – it was ok. I like the splash of creativity with a multitude of colors. Level 1 RC was great, Level 2 RC was horrible in terms of design (abstract space is not good), Level 3 RC are a mess (they could have hired better artists for those). The base cards were actually better than the RCs. Fresh Paint auto color should not have been yellow (it should have been the same as Legacies)

2. Collation – for base (got 4 Oladipos and 4 Joe Ingles in the case. Why not make more of Superstars rather than non-all stars) Cant even remember if I got any Curry, Durant or Giannis base at all. Autos are actually poorly collated. Since I saw some great case and below average case. In my case, not that great at all.

3. Autos – sticker autos are horrible. Especially for Veteran autos. Making this product weaker. The only fantastic to collect from this set is the Heir Apprarent. Unfortunately I got redemptions for most of them (got 6 in this case).

4. Case hit – Aurora was found in my case, but there are too many players for this case hit and it should have been numbered. They could have limit to top 10 Rookies and top 10 Veterans (5 current players like Lebron, Curry, Durant, Giannis and Dirk) (retired players like Magic, Bird, Barkley, Dr. J and Kareem)

Overall: below average. Plus points is the low price point of $100 per box. But the value of the money is so low this product reminds you of Fleer 90s that are lower tiered product. This could be pegged slightly above Hoops in terms of the Hierarchy of this product.

Trey, thanks for the help. You do an amazing job in helping us collectors keep up with everything!

Trey, has there been any information released about the Aurora inserts? At our local one guy said they were a case hit and another said they were an unannounced 1/1. Curious I pulled the Aurora Ben Simmons and wondered just how rare the card might be?

Did they get rid of box toppers? If so i’m glad. I don’t know how to store em.

Do you have any idea how much will it be?