Panini America Offers Detailed First Look at 2014-15 Preferred Basketball (Gallery)

For the hardcore hoops collecting world anxiously awaiting Friday’s release of 2014-15 Select Basketball, The Knight’s Lance has something to help you pass the time: The world-premiere first look at 2014-15 Preferred Basketball. Annually one of basketball’s most anticipated and adored brands, the Preferred franchise will boast a bolstered array of booklet cards and autograph inserts when it arrives in late June.

Every four-card pack of 2014-15 Preferred Basketball will deliver three autographs numbered to 99 or less and one booklet card. Among the innovative new memorabilia booklets featured this season will be the vertically oriented Champs and Swish inserts and the stunning, acetate-aided Playbook Rookie Jumbo.

Other highlights of 2014-15 Preferred Basketball include . . .

• The premiere of all-new autograph sets such as Roundball Signature Die-Cuts, Dynamic Debuts and Unparalleled.
• Stat Line Memorabilia booklets featuring photography and statistics from the exact game the featured jersey swatch
  was worn.
• The triumphant return of jaw-dropping NBA Finals booklets, this year featuring jerseys worn during Game 2 of the 2014 NBA Finals.
• The introduction of VS: 1 on 1 memorabilia booklets featuring jumbo swatches and stunning photography of two players facing off against each other.
• The return of the iconic Silhouettes jersey autograph cards, including beautiful patch versions sequentially numbered to 25 or less.

We’ll have plenty more on 2014-15 Preferred Basketball in the coming weeks right here on The Knight’s Lance. But for now, enjoy this extended first look, which includes a bonus pre-ink peek at many of the aforementioned Silhouettes:

All information is accurate at the time of posting – content is subject to change. Card images are solely for the purpose of design display. Actual images used on cards to be determined.