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CardCollector2 opened a full case of 2025-26 Panini Noir Basketball, the first Noir set made without the NBA's logos. The video is built around a chase card that landed in back-to-back boxes. The box itself is the bigger story: Panini rebuilt it for the unlicensed year, adding an autograph and dropping two memorabilia cards.

The video is titled "We Hit The #1 Chase In BACK TO BACK Boxes! *ENTIRE NOIR BASKETBALL CASE*," and it was published on Oct. 10, 2026. In the channel's own description, the four-box case produced "the #1 chase in the product in BACK TO BACK boxes," a one-of-one patch card in the very first box, "multiple Sneaker Spotlight autos," a low-numbered on-card rookie autograph, and "big-time Hall of Fame and veteran on-card autos" to close it out. The pulls themselves are in the video.

What Panini put in the box

Panini's own product page sets out the 2025-26 hobby box. It is one pack of eight cards, and Panini says to look for, on average:

  • 5 autographs
  • 1 memorabilia card
  • 2 base cards, base parallels or inserts

Four boxes make a case, the page lists the box at $899.95, and it limits buyers to four per transaction. That matches the channel's count of "6 autos or memorabilia cards per box," the five autographs plus the one memorabilia card.

The licensed 2024-25 box was a different shape. Panini's product copy for that year, which retailers still carry, promised four autographs, three memorabilia cards and three base cards, parallels or inserts per box, and Checklist Insider lists that box at ten cards in its single pack. Checklist Insider spells out the change directly: "Whereas the licensed '24-25 edition had four autographs and three relics per box, the unlicensed '25-26 edition has five autographs and one relic per box."

Put side by side, the year without the license moved like this:

  • Cards per box: 10 down to 8
  • Autographs: 4 up to 5
  • Memorabilia: 3 down to 1
  • Base, parallels or inserts: 3 down to 2

Analysis: Panini moved the box toward the card type a league license matters least to. An on-card autograph is the player's own signature whether or not a team logo is printed beside it. The total number of hits per box fell from seven to six, but the box now carries more autographs than the licensed one did. That is a reading of the configuration, not something Panini has said.

Who signs for Panini now

Without the logos, the product leans on who signs. Panini's page names V.J. Edgecombe, Tre Johnson and Jeremiah Fears as Panini-exclusive rookies with on-card autographs, and Checklist Insider says all three have exclusive autograph deals with Panini. Panini says the autographs also come from top veterans, retired players and NIL athletes, and its page lists Allen Iverson, Kevin Garnett, Derrick Rose and Carmelo Anthony among its key athletes. Panini's autograph sets include the returning Spotlight Signatures and Sneaker Spotlight Signatures, the second of which the channel says it pulled more than once.

Checklist Insider dates the hobby release to Sept. 18, 2026, and says the set "omits the official NBA and team logos for the first time." The channel's description puts it more bluntly: "Panini no longer has the NBA license." This blog covered where that left Panini in CASE #0090, and the Topps side of the change in CASE #0345.

The price on the thumbnail

The thumbnail shows the channel holding a Noir box in front of an arena video board reading "$4,000 CASE." The description says the case is "now available for close to $4,000."

Analysis: at Panini's own list price of $899.95 a box, a four-box case comes to $3,599.80 by this blog's arithmetic, so the channel's round figure is in line with what Panini charges directly. The description closes on the question the whole video sets up: "Is unlicensed Panini basketball worth ripping at these prices?"

CardCollector2's case is a good look at what Panini Noir is without the NBA: smaller boxes, one fewer hit, and one more autograph in each. Whether a back-to-back chase pull makes that trade worth $3,600 at list is the question the video puts to its viewers, and the box is now built to answer it with signatures.

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Channel: CardCollector2