#1 Pick Ben Simmons signs exclusive multi year contract with Upper Deck

[AndyG23]

http://upperdeck.com/Corporate/News-...016-06-24.aspx

This is a catastrophe for Panini! If they can't work out some deal to get Simmons autos, it will be worse than when they missed out on Lillard.

[rocksaysits420]

All I can say is lmao, this is bad for panini

[jordan23]

Panini loll

[pwaldo]

Panini is a total and absolute joke and this is example like #1065879. They are an absolute mess in the basketball department and they waste resources in baseball (that they could be focusing on basketball) to release UNLICENSED JUNK that only hurts baseball collectors.

[cardmansteve]

Let's get Topps and UD back in the basketball scene!!

[mattyj]

I agree get UD and Topps back .... i think this is an indicator that ud know they will be back after the exclusive panini period ends which i think is this year

[pwaldo]

Upper Deck may return to basketball but there is almost no chance that Topps does. They were never really big in basketball to begin with.

[AndyG23]

UD have made a bid for the licence according to Ryan Tedards on twitter @ SportscardNews

Upper Deck may return to basketball but there is almost no chance that Topps does. They were never really big in basketball to begin with.

That's true but Chrome, Finest and Bowman were products that had a huge impact back in the day.