After NBA players join the NBA, the NBA authorities own the rights to their portraits on their basketball cards, so card companies purchase the rights to use their portraits from the NBA authorities. After obtaining the rights to use their portraits, the card companies start making plates. Let’s take a brief look at what these cards look like and the production process.

Puka

The process of making the card is very simple. You only need to have the player's image rights to make the card. There is usually a card number on the back of the card, the player's back number, height, weight, birthday, graduation school, recent status or some brief introduction to him. Here is his career data at that time. The data includes year, team and appearance. Number of games played, field goal percentage, free throw percentage, rebounds, assists, steals, total blocks, average points and the highest score in a single game of the season. In recent years, the player data recorded in Puka issued by Panini has been reduced from all career data to the player's data for the current year. Special Cards

Special Cards couldn’t be simpler. As long as the company owns the player’s image rights, it can produce cards without the need for computer or lawyer certification. Most of them are superstar players.

Limited Card

Limited card means that this card has an exact limited number of copies. Generally, ordinary limited cards have the same limited number as regular cards, so it can be regarded as a kind of parallel card. Limited edition cards are also signed and limited.

Exchange card

Exchange card means that when you remove the card, you will find a card with words such as EXCH on it. You must send that card back to the United States. Only then will the real card be sent back to you, which is the exchange card. The reason for exchanging cards may be that the star did not have time to sign when the card was issued or there was a problem in the production process of the star card.

Rookie Card

RC is the abbreviation of Rookie Card, which means rookie card. It is usually a card issued by players in their first season. RC is divided into ordinary limited edition and limited edition. RC, in recent years, RC jerseys, RC floors, and RC signature cards have appeared one after another. This shows how highly RC cards are valued and popular in the market.

Jersey card

Jersey card means that after the company signs a contract with the star, it can buy the player's jersey, cut out a small part of the jersey and paste it on the card, and then go through The card will be completed after the attorney's certification.

PATCH

Patch is actually the same material as jersey cards, but the main difference is that it has more colors than jerseys (most jerseys are of one color), and they usually have tailoring. The tailoring lines and textures cut into the jersey make this card even more beautiful. I have to mention that if your PATCH happens to cut to the team logo on the jersey, it will be quite beautiful. Others cut out the NBA LOGO directly, which is called logman, and is usually in low quantity. There are even Adidas or size numbers cut into the jersey, called tags, which are even rarer and can be found in the current Gold Brick series.

Other physical cards:

With the continuous updating of card-making technology and creativity, mainstream star card companies such as UD and PANINI have launched physical cards of various materials. Star cards, in short, are cards made from various physical objects such as sneakers, towels, hats, and suits used by players, or floors, seats, basketballs, etc. used in games. The most famous one is It's Michael Jordan's final shot on the floor in the Finals. Rating cards are not actually a type of star card, that is, any of the above types of cards can be rated. Submit the card to a professional star card grading agency (such as BECKETT Company), and then the star card grading company will evaluate the card's ink (only for signed cards), the balance of the card, the quality of the edges and corners of the card, and other comprehensive aspects. After the inspection, the score is finally obtained, and the identification card holder is installed on the identified card, and the rating score of the card is marked on the top of the card holder. Generally, the full score is 10 points, and 0.5 is a level. The cost to send it domestically to the United States for grading is about 220 yuan.

It is an ordinary card that has been specially processed to give it a special reflection and refraction effect. Among refraction cards, topps is one of the best.

In the 2012-13 season, Panini launched the prizm series, which mainly focused on refraction cards, for the first time, which was well received by card fans. Prizm refraction is divided into gold, green and universal refraction. The green discount only appears in prizm retail packages in the continental United States.

The star cards are electronic versions, with a maximum of 110 cards. According to the strength ranking of the participating teams in the 2014 World Cup, the top 10 teams each have 8 star cards; the bottom 6 teams each have 5 star cards. Users who have star cards can choose any 5 collected star cards to form a team, compete with other people's teams, and conduct PK based on the values ????of the team members. Each team can redeem different prizes if they collect them. This card was launched by NetEase in 2014.