2020-21 Panini Contenders Optic Basketball Cards 2020-21 Panini Contenders Optic Basketball Cards

2020-21 Panini Contenders Optic Basketball Cards

For the third year in a row, you can pair the Chromium 2020-21 Panini Contenders Optic Basketball with the main Contenders release. Each Hobby box will contain 6 cards, one of which is meant to be an autograph along with two parallels and two inserts.
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For the third year in a row, you can pair the Chromium 2020-21 Panini Contenders Optic Basketball with the main Contenders release.

Contenders Optic returns with opti-chrome yet again to delight fans in combination with the standard Contenders set.

Each Hobby box will contain 6 cards, one of which is meant to be an autograph along with two parallels and two inserts. 

2020-21 Panini Contenders Optic Basketball Cards

2020-21 Panini Contenders Optic Basketball offers opti-chrome versions of the 2020-21 Contenders NBA set. Top names are highlighted in the Season Ticket base set. And parallels are to include Green Pulsar (/25), Silver (/99), Gold (/10), and one Gold Vinyl amongst others. 

Hobby box exclusive finds include Black Pandora, a super short print (SSP) which will be randomly inserted in Contenders Optic boxes.

Fans can expect parallels to average two per each Hobby box.

On to the Inserts, each 2020-21 Panini Contenders Optic Basketball box will have two inserts.

2020-21 Panini Contenders Optic Basketball Cards

There are plenty of options and subsets here including All-Star AspirationsLottery Ticket, Playing the Numbers Game, and Uniformity. And look out for the newbies this year with Hoop DreamsPick N Roll, Suite Shots, and Team Tandems are all new choices.

Fancy a die-cut design? Search for Superstars and look out for the Gold Vinyl parallel. 

2020-21 Panini Contenders Optic Basketball Cards

One Autograph will be found in each Hobby box and the 2020-21 Panini Contenders Optic Basketball checklist provides just a few options here. On-card signatures in Rookie Ticket and Rookie Ticket Variations, as well as hard-signed Veteran Season Ticket and 1983 Tribute Autographs. 

The estimated release date is coming up soon on 26 November 2021. 

2020-21 Panini Contenders Optic Basketball Hobby Box Recap

1 x Autograph
2 x Inserts
2 x Parallels

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