Rare Inserts in ’12-13 Contenders Basketball Gaining Secondary-Market Steam

[doniceage]

There are no autographs on them, no massive swatches of multicolored memorabilia in them and no tell-tale sequential numbering behind them. Simply, they’re nicely designed base inserts with cool photography and subtle foil touches. But after a few weeks of 2012-13 Contenders Basketball being on the market, it would appear that hoops collectors across the country are finally starting to realize the needle-in-a-haystack scarcity of the set’s Hall of Fame Contenders and Throwback Rookie inserts.

It’s a point not lost on those folks who’ve contacted Panini America recently in hopes of finding out just how tough these cards are to pull. For the record, they’re extremely rare. The Hall of Fame Contenders were inserted roughly one in every 409 packs; the Throwback Rookies fall one in every 273 packs.



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[cardcollectorman]

They are rare but too bad not cooler they look like any numbered insert card in any usual sets.

[WilyWestbrook0]

Yeah, looks like they are trying to hark back to some of the late nineties rare inserts, but I'd say these still have the edge: