UD & Topps out after 08/09...Panini to produce NBA cards

[Italy61587]

this blows..i don' like where this is going..how can companies like Ud and topps that have been around for quite a while just disappear all of a sudden...what will happen to all the brands and sets we've collected for so long

[NyFanCam01]

this blows..i don' like where this is going..how can companies like Ud and topps that have been around for quite a while just disappear all of a sudden...what will happen to all the brands and sets we've collected for so long

i know right!!!


this is flat out STUPID!

i bet the cards will be ugly and boring

im not wasting money on that garbage company.

i hope ppl dont buy their nonsense, so that Topps & UD will be back

[gatorboymike]

In other words, you can look forward to everything basketball looking like this for the next three years:



Game over, man. Game over. R.I.P basketball cards (1948-2009).

[NyFanCam01]

In other words, you can look forward to everything basketball looking like this for the next three years:



Game over, man. Game over. R.I.P basketball cards (1948-2009).

hahahaha

"game over man, game over!"


yea, horrible.
i cant believe the NBA would allow this!

well, i guess i mine as well try to get all allen iverson cards i can get. i wont have to worry about nice new ones coming out.

[Italy61587]

this happening is a perfect example of how the global economy and "globalization" totally sucks

[Gtbballer20]

AMEN TO ALL!! I cant believe this!!! this ruins everything that i have lived for over the past 19 years....why now!?!?!?! do it when im dead, but not now!!!

[RenegadeLonghorn]

In other words, you can look forward to everything basketball looking like this for the next three years:

Eh, I'm pretty sure it will be different. That card is 15 years old...

[gatorboymike]

Eh, I'm pretty sure it will be different. That card is 15 years old...

Panini has never made actual NBA cards, just stickers, and they haven't even done that for a decade. I mean, these are the same people who make Hannah Montana stickers. So forgive me if, based on their track record, I feel like the sky is turning black and raining flaming human skulls.

The NBA is doing this to pander to a bunch of people who couldn't tell a basketball from a papaya, who never have and never will care about anything but soccer. You sit them down at a baksetball game and they'd swamp the court after the first bucket because they think that in every sport, a 2-0 lead means the game is over. Globalize that, David Stern.

[NyFanCam01]

haha, guys... what if panini was ALL base cards... with a few inserts and autos were like 1 per 12 box case?

[RenegadeLonghorn]

I'm sure UD and Topps will continue to produce basketball cards. Primary focus will likely be college cards/NCAA.

Because of the unknowns this is a huge blow to the basketball card hobby. I wonder how soon Panini will release the first set.