Hoops Card DB

2019-20 Court Kings

Base set 
199 cards · checklist
Parallels 
63 · 6 on the base set
Released 
June 5, 2020

licensed (NBA)

  • Base Set67 cards
  • Rookies I33 cards
  • Rookies II33 cards
  • Rookies III33 cards
  • Rookies IV33 cards
  • G-001 Release date disagreement: tcdb.com, DA Card World, cardboardconnection.com and sportscollectorsdaily.com all state June 5, 2020; sportscollectorsdigest.com states the product "was scheduled for May 15" (2020). release.csv uses 2020-06-05 (four agreeing sources vs. one outlier). A Panini America "First Look" blog post (blog.paniniamerica.net) is a pre-release preview and did not carry a firm release date at the time of writing.
  • G-002 beckett.com/news returned inaccessible/blocked on every attempt and checklistinsider.com returned HTTP 404 for the 2019-20 Court Kings basketball checklist URL, so neither could be used as an independent cross-check for base set size, tier ranges, parallel print runs, or insert/autograph counts.
  • G-004 No source publishes a numeric print run for the base card tiers themselves (Base Set 1-67, or Rookies I-IV). All five tiers are recorded as print_run=unnumbered because no source shows a serial number printed on any of these cards; the relative scarcity between tiers (Rookies I "most common", Rookies II/III "short prints", Rookies IV "SSP") is qualitative editorial language only, not a stated production quantity, consistent with the task prompt's note that Panini publishes no numeric odds sheets for basketball.
  • G-005 Set name spelling disagreement: cardboardconnection.com and sportscollectorsdaily.com print "Le Cinque Piu Belle" (and sportscollectorsdaily.com translates it as "The Five Most Beautiful"); checklistcenter.com prints "La Cirque Piu Belle". sets.csv uses "Le Cinque Piu Belle" (majority spelling, and the only one with an accompanying translation confirming the intended Italian phrase).
  • G-006 Mount Zion (1-card, Zion Williamson-exclusive insert) has no sourced scarcity tier or stated odds beyond its 1-card checklist. No editorial or manufacturer source calls it a case hit, SSP, or short print, and marketplace/eBay listings using those terms were deliberately not used as evidence per the anti-fabrication rules. It is therefore omitted from scarcity_sets.csv entirely.
  • G-007 Numeric print runs exist for several autograph sets (e.g. "on-card autographs are limited to 149 or fewer copies" per gogts.net; Legacies Signatures individually numbered #/35 to #/49 per cardboardconnection.com) but these are card-level SERIAL NUMBERS on the autographs themselves, not stated PACK ODDS, so they were not recorded in scarcity_sets.csv/scarcity_parallels.csv per the scarcity-pass spec (odds only, never inferred from print run).
  • G-008 Whether Court Kings base/tier cards carry a serial number is UNRESOLVED. No source in any of the six seasons positively states the tiers are unnumbered; sources only omit a print run. Only the named cross-cutting parallels (Ruby, Amethyst, ...) carry explicit print runs. Resolving this needs a card in hand or a scan of a tier card's back.
  • G-009 Artistic Endeavors Relics: tcdb's base subset page (https://www.tcdb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/233889/2019-20-Panini-Court-Kings-Artistic-Endeavors) renders only 18 rows and states 'Total Cards 18', one short of sets.csv's card_count of 19. The Artistic Endeavors Super Prime parallel page (https://www.tcdb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/233891/2019-20-Panini-Court-Kings-Artistic-Endeavors-Super-Prime) renders 19 rows and supplies the missing one, AE-CPL Chris Paul (Oklahoma City Thunder). Because a colour parallel prints the same card number as its base card, and because sets.csv - built without fetching tcdb - sides with the parallel page rather than the base page, this was recorded as base-page incompleteness recovered, not as parallel-only scope. AE-CPL is written to insert_cards.csv citing the Super Prime page. The Artistic Endeavors Prime parallel (sid 233890) renders only 13 rows and is genuine parallel scope; it was not used to add or remove any row. tcdb names this set 'Artistic Endeavors' without our 'Relics' suffix.
  • G-010 Mount Zion card_number token form is contested. tcdb prints 'MT-ZION' and its own row-derived ViewCard href confirms it (https://www.tcdb.com/ViewCard.cfm/sid/233947/cid/14723192/2019-20-Panini-Court-Kings-Mount-Zion-MT-ZION-Zion-Williamson), so MT-ZION is what was written. Two other renderings exist and disagree: cardboardconnection.com renumbers the single card as '1' (that site renumbers this release's coded sets generally, so it is not credible here), and a PSA slab label transcribed in an eBay listing (https://www.ebay.com/itm/354317793409) reads '#MTZION' with no hyphen. No free-text seller title carrying the full printed token was found. Resolving the hyphen needs a scan of the card front/back.
  • G-011 Legacies Signatures (8 cards) card numbers rest on tcdb alone. Every other coded set in this release had its prefix independently confirmed by a marketplace free-text title or a comc card-page URL path - BR- (https://www.ebay.com/itm/204450310474), HA- (https://www.ebay.com/itm/277237552499), II- (https://www.ebay.de/itm/376535018481), AE- (https://www.ebay.com/itm/164542226496), AN- (https://www.ebay.com/itm/298191485575), FE- and FP- (comc card pages) - but repeated searches surfaced no listing carrying a full LS- code for 2019-20. The eight rows are written from https://www.tcdb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/233933/2019-20-Panini-Court-Kings-Legacies-Signatures with the corroboration gap noted in each row. Players: Charles Barkley, Dennis Rodman, Hakeem Olajuwon, Julius Erving, Kevin Durant, Kevin Garnett, Magic Johnson, Stephen Curry.
  • G-012 Source calibration for this release, done on coded sets rather than base cards. FAILED: cardboardconnection.com (https://www.cardboardconnection.com/2019-20-panini-court-kings-basketball-cards) renumbers Brush Strokes Autographs as '1 Danny Green / 2 Magic Johnson / 3 Avery Bradley / 4 Richard Hamilton / 5 Rony Seikaly' where the printed codes are BR-DGR, BR-MJO, BR-ABR, BR-RHA, BR-RSE; it also renumbers the one-card Mount Zion set as '1'. It was therefore used for ROSTERS ONLY and never for a coded card_number. PASSED, for the plain-numbered inserts only: the same page reproduces tcdb's Academy of Fine Arts, Aurora, Dressed to Impress, First Steps and Le Cinque Piu Belle checklists number-for-number, which corroborates that those sets genuinely are numbered 1..N. eBay /p/ product pages and structured 'Card Number' fields were rejected as aggregator-seeded, and two candidate /itm/ pages were discarded after fetching because the page carried tcdb flag strings ('(AU, RC)', '(MEM, RC)') a seller would not write. tcdb PASSED on every set tested.

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