2021-22 Hoops Basketball Forum

Hi there, I had a weird experience opening this year's Hoops packs, so I wanted to share with the community to see what other people thought.

I bought a hobby box and pulled 143/200 base veterans (#1-200). Since my Target had fat packs I bought five thinking I would be able to finish off the base veterans without having to do much trading. Well I opened all five fat packs (30 cards - approx 20 base veterans per pack) and did not get a single card of the remaining 57 that I needed, but I got 15 duplicates within the five packs.

I'm not upset or anything because the main excitement for me is the rookies and inserts. I just thought that was so weird. Anyone else had a similar experience?

I haven't bought retail in forever (thanks pandemic flippers). However, I've heard many a story of this happening in retail packs, especially back-to-back packs having the same exact cards. Not just basketball, but all sports have been affected.

Panini has been doing this since 2013-14 season at least. It's regular, not abnormal. I've even had it where the inserts and parallels were in the exact same order.