Panini Donruss Basketball · NBA
2023-24 Donruss
- Base set
- 250 cards · checklist
- Parallels
- 118 · 30 on the base set
- Released
- January 26, 2024
licensed (NBA)
Base set parallels · 30
- ChoiceChoiceunnumbered
- Choice DragonChoiceunnumbered
- Holo Green LaserRetailunnumbered
- Holo Red and Gold LaserHobbyunnumbered
- Press Proof SilverMultiple channelsunnumbered
- RedHobbyunnumbered
- Yellow Floodnot documentedunnumbered
- Press Proof PurpleMultiple channels/199
- Holo LaserMultiple channels/149
- Holo Orange LaserBlaster/125
- Choice RedChoice/99
- Holo Purple LaserBlaster/99
- Holo Red LaserHobby/99
- Red FireworksHobby/88
- Holo Red and Green LaserMega box/75
- Press Proof Silver Die-CutHobby/75
- Holo Pink LaserRetail · jumbo/50
- Choice BlueChoice/49
- Holo Blue LaserHobby/49
- Holo Blue and Green LaserMega box/35
- Holo Light Blue LaserHobby/25
- Holo Yellow LaserRetail/25
- Press Proof Gold Die-CutHobby/25
- Holo Teal LaserMega box/20
- Holo Red and Blue LaserBlaster/15
- Choice GoldChoice/10
- Holo Gold LaserHobby/10
- Choice Black GoldChoice/8
- Choice BlackChoice/1
- Holo Black LaserHobby/1
Insert sets · 18
- Animation10 cards
- Bomb Squad20 cards3 parallels
- Complete Players10 cards3 parallels
- Crunch Time15 cards8 parallels
- Fadeaway15 cards
- Franchise Features30 cards3 parallels
- Great X-Pectations25 cards3 parallels
- Hardwood Masters15 cards8 parallels
- Magicians10 cards3 parallels
- Net Marvels20 cards8 parallels
- Next Day13 cards
- Next Day Personal Edition49 cards
- Night Moves30 cards
- Playmakers15 cards
- Retro Series25 cards8 parallels
- The Rookies5 cards3 parallels
- Unleashed15 cards8 parallels
- Zero Gravity10 cards8 parallels
Autograph sets · 5
Open questions · 24show
- G-001 Release date disagreement: dacardworld.com hobby box page, waxstat.com hobby box page and gogts.net all state Friday, January 26, 2024, while cardboardconnection.com and cardlines.com state January 24, 2024. waxstat's 2023-24 release calendar shows the 24-Pack Retail case on Jan 24, 2024 and other Donruss SKUs on Jan 26, 2024, suggesting a staggered retail-then-hobby street date. Used 2024-01-26 as the hobby release date (three agreeing sources).
- G-002 The card-level base checklist (all 250 player names and teams) is single-source: checklistcenter.com only. cardsmithsbreaks.com and chasingmajors.com independently confirm the 250-card structure (#1-200 base, #201-250 Rated Rookies) but their card-level rows were not retrievable for cross-check; breakninja.com only served a team-index page; beckett.com/news returned HTTP 403; tcdb.com and nbacardscentral.com were robots-blocked. Player names and teams are therefore unverified against a second source.
- G-003 Print-run disagreement on Holo Green Laser: checklistcenter.com lists 'Green' in the unnumbered group of Holo Laser parallels, while chasingmajors.com lists 'Green Laser Holo (/75)'. dacardworld's 24-Pack Retail copy reads 'Retail Boxes are the only place to find exclusive Holo Green Laser and Holo Yellow Laser (#'d/25)!', where the /25 is ambiguous as to whether it applies to one or both names. Recorded as unnumbered (checklistcenter, the only source that groups parallels by print run explicitly). chasingmajors may have conflated it with Red and Green Laser /75.
- G-004 Autograph set count disagreements, recorded as UNKNOWN: Rated Rookies Signatures 49 (checklistcenter.com) vs 46 (cardsmithsbreaks.com, stated on both its hobby and mega-box checklist pages); Signature Series 88 (checklistcenter.com) vs 82 (cardsmithsbreaks.com).
- G-005 Insert/auto card counts for Animation, Bomb Squad, Crunch Time, Dominators Autographs, Hardwood Masters, Net Marvels, Next Day, Next Day Autographs, Night Moves, Retro Series, Rookie Dominators Autographs, Unleashed and Zero Gravity come from checklistcenter.com and cardsmithsbreaks.com only; cardboardconnection.com, gogts.net and cardlines.com list the set names but publish no card counts, and beckett.com/news (HTTP 403) could not be used as an independent check.
- G-006 Next Day Personal Edition (49 cards) is single-source (checklistcenter.com only) and its set_type is unverified. Panini 'Personal Edition' variants are frequently autographed, but no source confirms whether this is an insert or an autograph set; it was recorded as insert to avoid claiming an autograph that is not documented. cardsmithsbreaks' checklists do not list the set at all.
- G-007 Channel attribution for Holo Red Laser #/99 is single-source: cardsmithsbreaks.com lists it in the 2023-24 Donruss HOBBY box parallel line-up, but cardboardconnection.com, gogts.net and dacardworld's hobby box page do not name it among the hobby exclusives, and no retail SKU page claims it either. Its print run (/99) is confirmed by checklistcenter.com and chasingmajors.com. [REVIEWED 2026-08-17: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-17: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-17: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-17: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: count is now 89 of 118 - the channel pass resolved -88 of these with cited evidence. Gap remains open for the rest.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: count is now 89 of 118 - the channel pass resolved -88 of these with cited evidence. Gap remains open for the rest.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: count is now 89 of 118 - the channel pass resolved -88 of these with cited evidence. Gap remains open for the rest.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: count is now 89 of 118 - the channel pass resolved -88 of these with cited evidence. Gap remains open for the rest.]
- G-008 Channel is UNKNOWN for Yellow Flood, Press Proof Silver (unnumbered), Press Proof Purple #/199 and Holo Laser #/149. No retailer SKU page or checklist source states which configuration(s) these are found in; they are presumed general/multi-channel but this is unverified. Yellow Flood in particular is listed by checklistcenter only under the base #1-200 parallel group and not under Rated Rookies, yet Rated Rookie Yellow Flood cards (e.g. #250 Scoot Henderson, #220 Victor Wembanyama, #213 Jaime Jaquez Jr.) are documented in marketplace listings, so checklistcenter's grouping appears incomplete. [REVIEWED 2026-08-17: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-17: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-17: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-17: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: count is now 89 of 118 - the channel pass resolved -88 of these with cited evidence. Gap remains open for the rest.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: count is now 89 of 118 - the channel pass resolved -88 of these with cited evidence. Gap remains open for the rest.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: count is now 89 of 118 - the channel pass resolved -88 of these with cited evidence. Gap remains open for the rest.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: count is now 89 of 118 - the channel pass resolved -88 of these with cited evidence. Gap remains open for the rest.]
- G-009 No source documents Career Stat Line, Season Stat Line or a base-level Diamond parallel for 2023-24 paper Donruss Basketball, despite those being part of the paper Donruss parallel vocabulary in other sports/years. A 'Diamond' parallel was found only as an INSERT parallel (e.g. Zero Gravity Diamond). Absence from the base parallel list is therefore recorded rather than asserted.
- G-010 Donruss Choice release date disagreement (Choice is the retail SKU carrying the Choice parallel family): cardsmithsbreaks.com states February 14, 2024 while cardlines.com states February 2, 2024. Not used for the release.csv date (which is the hobby date) but affects channel/SKU timing. [REVIEWED 2026-08-17: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-17: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-17: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-17: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: still open; 1 of 30 parallels lack a sourced channel.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: count is now 89 of 118 - the channel pass resolved -88 of these with cited evidence. Gap remains open for the rest.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: count is now 89 of 118 - the channel pass resolved -88 of these with cited evidence. Gap remains open for the rest.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: count is now 89 of 118 - the channel pass resolved -88 of these with cited evidence. Gap remains open for the rest.] [REVIEWED 2026-08-19: count is now 89 of 118 - the channel pass resolved -88 of these with cited evidence. Gap remains open for the rest.]
- G-011 Box configuration disagreement for the hobby box: dacardworld.com, waxstat.com and cardboardconnection.com all state 10 packs per box / 30 cards per pack, while cardlines.com states 6 packs of 8 cards. Used 10/30 (three agreeing sources). cardboardconnection additionally states 10 boxes per case.
- G-012 Insert-set parallel structure is only partially documented. dacardworld's mega-box copy names insert parallels (Signature Series Green Laser, Great X-Pectations / Magicians / The Rookies / Franchise Features / Bomb Squad / Complete Players in Red and Green Laser or Blue and Green Laser) but no source publishes a complete insert-parallel list with print runs. Card-level insert checklists are out of scope, but the insert parallel families remain unverified.
- G-013 cardboardconnection.com's 2023-24 Donruss Basketball page publishes only the hobby-exclusive and Choice-exclusive parallels and no base set size, so the preferred primary source could not be used to cross-check base_set_size, the full parallel list, or insert counts. beckett.com/news/2023-24-donruss-basketball-cards/ returned HTTP 403 on every attempt.
- G-014 rookie_flag is derived from section membership, not from per-card RC markers: checklistcenter.com labels #201-250 as the 'Rated Rookies' block and #1-200 as the base block, so #201-250 were flagged yes and #1-200 no. No source consulted printed an explicit per-card RC designation for all 250 cards. Marketplace listings confirm the convention for individual cards (e.g. #250 Scoot Henderson and #220 Victor Wembanyama sold as 'Rated Rookie RC'), but the flag for #1-200 is an inference from the set's structure.
- G-015 ABSTAINED - no card rows written. checklistcenter.com is still the only source naming a 'Next Day Personal Edition' set; tcdb.com's 2023-24 Donruss insert index (https://www.tcdb.com/Inserts.cfm/sid/401358/2023-24-Donruss) has no such set, and no eBay/COMC listing for one was found. Its 49 checklistcenter rows are exactly the union of the two real Next Day sets: Next Day (13 cards) + Next Day Autographs (36 cards) = 49, same players, and checklistcenter numbers all three off one shared 1-50 sequence (its 'Next Day' section reads 1,2,3,6,8,9,11,13,14,17,18,20,27 and its 'Next Day Auto' section fills 4,5,7,10,12,... ). The printed numbers on those cards are ND- letter codes (corroborated by eBay #ND-CAM and #ND-KBF), so checklistcenter's 1-50 numbers are a display sequence, not card numbers. Strong evidence that 'Next Day Personal Edition' is checklistcenter's master listing of the Next Day program rather than a distinct Panini set, and that its sets.csv row (49 cards, set_type=insert) may need review. Supersedes nothing; extends G-006. Source: https://www.checklistcenter.com/2023-24-donruss-basketball-card-checklist/
- G-016 Partial: 84 of a stated 88 cards written. tcdb.com's Signature Series page header states 88 total cards (agreeing with checklistcenter.com's 88; cardsmithsbreaks.com states 82), but only 84 distinct rows are actually enumerable - the same 84 appear in the card-number view, the by-last-name view and all 9 gallery pages (10x8 + 4). The 4 unlisted cards could not be identified from any source. Source: https://www.tcdb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/408536 and https://www.tcdb.com/Gallery.cfm/sid/408536/2023-24-Donruss---Signature-Series?PageIndex=9
- G-017 Partial: 20 rows written against card_count=25 in sets.csv. tcdb.com catalogues only 21 cards for this set (3 gallery pages: 10+10+1) and prints the placeholder 'TBD' instead of a card number for one of them (Luka Doncic, Dallas Mavericks) - that row was omitted rather than given an invented number. The 5-card shortfall against sets.csv (whose 25 came from checklistcenter.com and cardsmithsbreaks.com) is unexplained. Source: https://www.tcdb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/408539
- G-018 Partial: 35 of 36 rows written. tcdb.com prints the placeholder 'TBD' instead of a card number for Seth Lundy (Atlanta Hawks); the player is confirmed as part of the set by checklistcenter.com but no source gives his ND- code, so the row was omitted rather than given an invented number. Source: https://www.tcdb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/408535
- G-019 Duplicate letter codes in the source, unresolved. tcdb.com prints the same code for two different players in three sets: Signature Series SS-MAX (Max Strus AND Maxwell Lewis), Next Day ND-JHW (Jett Howard AND Jordan Hawkins), Next Day Autographs ND-JWL (Jalen Wilson AND Jordan Walsh) and ND-JSW (Julian Strawther AND Jalen Slawson). Panini does not issue the same code twice within a set, so one of each pair is a source transcription error. eBay/COMC searches did not surface a listing for either member of any pair. Both rows of each pair were written verbatim with a caveat in notes, so a resolver sees two candidates rather than none. Sources: https://www.tcdb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/408536 , https://www.tcdb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/409692 , https://www.tcdb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/408535
- G-020 Count disagreement in G-004 resolved in favour of 46: tcdb.com enumerates exactly 46 cards (5 gallery pages, 10+10+10+10+6), matching cardsmithsbreaks.com's 46 against checklistcenter.com's 49. sets.csv card_count is still UNKNOWN and is not this pass's file to change. NUMBERING NOTE: unlike 2019-20 through 2021-22 Donruss, the 2023-24 Rated Rookies Signatures do NOT mirror the base Rated Rookie numbers (201-250). They occupy a dedicated 251-300 block, printed 252-300 with holes at 251, 256, 262 and 270 (50 slots minus 4 = 46). Corroborated by a graded-card listing for a Kobe Bufkin 2023-24 Donruss Choice autograph numbered 279, matching this checklist's 279 = Kobe Bufkin, while base card 204 is the Kobe Bufkin Rated Rookie. Sources: https://www.tcdb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/408538 , https://www.sportscollectibles.com/kobe_bufkin_autographed_signed_2023_24_donruss_choice_auto_279_psa_gm_mt_c_p31930304.htm
- G-021 The 23 RD- letter codes are single-source (tcdb.com only). The set's roster and 23-card count agree with checklistcenter.com and cardsmithsbreaks.com, but those sites do not print letter codes, and no eBay/COMC listing quoting an RD- number for this release was found, so the codes themselves are uncorroborated. Source: https://www.tcdb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/408537
- G-022 Source-calibration record for this pass. checklistcenter.com and cardsmithsbreaks.com were verified to reproduce the plain 1..N inserts exactly as tcdb.com prints them (Bomb Squad, Crunch Time, The Rookies, Hardwood Masters, Complete Players, Magicians, Net Marvels, Unleashed, Franchise Features, Great X-Pectations, Retro Series via checklistcenter; Zero Gravity via cardsmithsbreaks), so those 13 sets are double-sourced. On the CODED sets the same sites were shown to renumber: checklistcenter lists the ND--coded Next Day insert as 1,2,3,6,8,... within a 1-50 master sequence. All coded card_numbers in this pass therefore come from tcdb.com, with the code scheme corroborated per set against marketplace listing titles: #DA-BRD (Larry Bird, https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/25065215841), #ND-KBF (Kobe Bufkin, https://www.ebay.com/itm/404843870878), #ND-CAM (Cam Whitmore, https://www.ebay.com/p/19089781427), #SS-GAR (Gary Harris, https://www.ebay.com/itm/375566137921). Note that the previous pass recorded tcdb.com as robots-blocked (G-002); it was reachable for this pass.
- G-023 set_type note, no data written: the 13-card 'Next Day' set is recorded in sets.csv as set_type=insert, but its card numbers are ND- autograph-style codes drawn from the same ND- namespace as Next Day Autographs, and eBay lists '2023-24 Panini Donruss - Next Day Cam Whitmore #ND-CAM (RC)' without an AU marker while tcdb marks the Next Day Autographs cards AU. No source states whether the 13 Next Day cards are signed. Left as recorded. Sources: https://www.tcdb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/409692 , https://www.ebay.com/p/19089781427
- G-024 RETROACTIVE TRUNCATION-RECOVERY SWEEP 2026-09-07 (Gallery.cfm?PageIndex=N, ChecklistByLastName.cfm for rosters, Errors.cfm). NO ROWS RECOVERED - truncation ruled out on every short set in this release, and the shortfalls are genuine. Dominators Autographs: Gallery states Total Cards 21 and renders exactly 21 across 3 pages, of which 20 carry printed DA- codes and 1 is 'TBD' (Luka Doncic); we hold all 20 coded rows, so tcdb itself is 4 short of the 25 in sets.csv. Next Day Autographs: Gallery states 36 and renders 36, of which 35 are coded and 1 is 'TBD' (Seth Lundy); we hold all 35. Gallery renders 'TBD'/'TBA' exactly as Checklist.cfm does, so it CANNOT resolve those tokens - this was tested and failed on every such row in the Donruss line. CONTRADICTION FOUND AND RESOLVED - Signature Series (sets.csv card_count UNKNOWN): Gallery's 'Total Cards' header claims 88, but its own pagination renders only 84 (page 9 holds 4 entries, confirmed by a second fetch under a different slug), and ChecklistByLastName.cfm independently renders 84 player rows. Three views say 84 and we hold 84, so the 88 is a STALE HEADER and the set is complete at 84; no rows were invented to close the 4-card difference. Rated Rookies Signatures (card_count UNKNOWN): Gallery states 46 and we hold 46 - complete. SEPARATE PRE-EXISTING GAP, NOT part of this sweep's scope: 'Next Day Personal Edition' (card_count 49) has ZERO rows in insert_cards.csv and no tcdb sid was located for it by search; it needs its own sourcing pass. Errors.cfm returned no entries for the sids tested.
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