Box Breaks: 2 Blaster Boxs of 17-18 Panini Contenders Basketball

 

This is going to be a really difficult year to buy basketball cards as I assume the prices are going to be terribly ABSURD thanks to this year's stacked draft class. Case in Point? This product? Hobby boxes are like $180 a BOX?! College stuff isn't usually that desirable yet thanks to Lonzo Ball, Markelle Fultz and others, people are going to be buying up anything basketball and driving the prices up. Hell, HOOPS..freaking HOOPS is preselling at $90 a BOX (with Donruss at $100!!!). These are LOW END PRODUCTS!!! If I'm going to get my pack busting fix, unfortunately it looks like it's going to have to be through retail just like baseball was for the most part. So I decided to try these at $20 a pop and the guarantee of one auto per box. Eh...why not right? Here's what I got

Unbeliveable..lol..no auto in blaster 1

Blaster 2
Isaish Briscoe Blue Foil Auto (#45/99)

Overall Thoughts: Yup..that's it. Got screwed over in blaster 1 and got a scrubby auto in blaster 2. I knew going in that the autos were going to probably suck, but damn, I'd at least like to get my 2 guaranteed scrubby autos! My low expectations weren't even met. Oh and Panini's famous collation issues were in full effect. I literally pulled the same Game Ticket Inserts from each blaster. I really HATE that about Panini the most. But they don't care to fix it because they know most people could care less about the inserts and base cards and just want the hits. Anyways, that continues the basketball dry spell as that's two straight bombs of breaks. Here's some pics of the different cards and inserts.

 

 

 

 

Top 5 Pulls of 2017 

#1 2017 Topps Chrome Aaron Judge Autograph RC

#2 2016-17 Panini Revolution Galactics DeJounte Murray RC

#3- 2016 Donruss Optic Superfractor Cam Newton (#1/1) 

#4- 2017 Bowman Platinum Platinum Cuts Gleyber Torres Autograph (#14/25)  

#5- 2017 Topps Tier Prodigious Patches Platinum Eric Hosmer (#1/1)