Panini Court Kings Basketball · NBA
2020-21 Court Kings
- Base set
- 199 cards · checklist
- Parallels
- 71 · 8 on the base set
- Released
- May 26, 2021
licensed (NBA)
Base set parallels · 8
Base set structure
- Base#1–6767 cards
- Rookies I#68–10033 cards
- Rookies II#101–13333 cards
- Rookies III#134–16633 cards
- Rookies IV#167–19933 cards
Insert sets · 16
- Acetate Rookies25 cards
- Art Nouveau Relics40 cards1 parallels
- Artistic Endeavors Relics20 cards1 parallels
- Artistry in Motion30 cards2 parallels
- Aurora17 cards
- Blank Slate40 cards
- Contemporaries30 cards2 parallels
- Dressed to Impress10 cards2 parallels
- First Steps10 cards4 parallels
- Le Cinque Piu Belle10 cards
- Maestros30 cards4 parallels
- Modern Strokes30 cards2 parallels
- Points in the Paint30 cards4 parallels
- Rookie Exclusive1 cards
- Rookie Expression Memorabilia40 cards1 parallels
- Works in Progress30 cards4 parallels
Autograph sets · 6
Open questions · 8show
- G-001 checklistcenter.com describes only the 67-card veteran run as "Base Set Size: 67 cards" and lists "Rookies I/II/III/IV" as four separate 33-card sets, implying a 67-card base. tcdb.com (set id 264067) and breakninja.com instead present one continuous 1-199 checklist with Rookies I-IV integrated as card numbers 68-199 of the SAME set ("Total Cards: 199"). This release adopts the 199-card tiled model per the Court Kings tier addendum; the 67-card alternate framing is logged here as a source disagreement, not discarded.
- G-002 No source found states a numeric print run OR the literal word "unnumbered" for the Rookies I, II, III, or IV tiers. The unnumbered classification is inferred from the absence of any serial number in every sampled per-player/team-page listing across tcdb.com and breakninja.com (dozens of rows checked), and from the fact these tiers never carry a colored-parallel suffix (unlike Base 1-67, which has an explicit numbered parallel family). Rookies IV is additionally described by blog.paniniamerica.net as "SSP" (super short print) -- a scarcity classification, not a numeric print run.
- G-003 Grant Riller's "Rookies IV" card number (194, by strict positional formula: tier_start + roster_position) was not found directly on a fetched page (breakninja.com's Toronto Raptors page did not list him, possibly due to a mid-season trade/roster listing quirk). All 32 other positions across all four Rookies tiers were independently confirmed verbatim (tcdb.com, breakninja.com team pages, and 2 corroborating eBay listing titles), and the tier_start+position formula held with zero exceptions across those 32 checks, so card 194 = Grant Riller, Rookies IV is recorded with high confidence but is not itself directly source-verified.
- G-004 Card counts for all named auto/insert/relic sets other than Aurora, Le Cinque Piu Belle and Rookie Exclusive (which were verified via full verbatim card-level checklists on breakninja.com) come from a single source, checklistcenter.com. Set NAMES were corroborated on a second source (breakninja.com and/or tcdb.com and/or blog.paniniamerica.net) in every case, but exact counts were not independently cross-checked against a second numeric source.
- G-005 The "First Steps" insert set (10 cards per checklistcenter.com) could not be corroborated on any second source during this pass (not found on breakninja.com, tcdb.com, or via web search). Recorded as single-source; name and count could not be independently verified.
- G-006 blog.paniniamerica.net and dacardworld.com both call Rookies IV "SSP" / "super short-printed" in manufacturer/sell-sheet language. Per the Court Kings tier addendum, Rookies I-IV are NOT separate sets.csv rows (they are tiers of the one "Base Set" row), so this SSP designation cannot be recorded in scarcity_sets.csv or ssp_cards.csv (both require an exact sets.csv set_name match per the verification step). The SSP evidence is instead captured in base_card_tiers.csv's evidence_quote for the "Rookies IV" tier row.
- G-007 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-008 tcdb's BASE checklist page for four coded autograph sets renders fewer rows than sets.csv states: Brush Strokes 29/30 (sid 271129), Fresh Paint 43/45 (sid 271147), Heir Apparent 43/45 (sid 271154), Impressionist Ink 28/30 (sid 271168). In each case a colour PARALLEL page renders the full sets.csv count and supplies the missing codes, so they are recorded as recoveries (sets.csv, built without fetching tcdb, sides with the parallel) rather than parallel scope creep. Recorded here because the recovered rows rest on a narrower evidence base than the rest: BR-DWL (Deron Williams) appears only on Brush Strokes Masterpiece (sid 271131) -- the Jade, Ruby and Pink parallels all render 29 -- though cardboardconnection.com's roster for the set independently lists Deron Williams; FP-CJE (CJ Elleby) and FP-TYT (Tyrell Terry) appear only on Fresh Paint Jade (sid 271148); HA-CJE (CJ Elleby) and HA-NRC (Nick Richards) appear only on Heir Apparent Jade (sid 271155); II-EBL (Eric Bledsoe) appears only on Impressionist Ink Jade (sid 271169), while II-SFR (Steve Francis) is on both the Jade and Ruby (sid 271172) pages. No marketplace listing title was found for any of these eight codes during this pass; a seller title carrying one would upgrade the evidence.
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