2014-15 Upper Deck SP Authentic Basketball preview

2014-15 Upper Deck SP Authentic Basketball signals the company’s swan song with their CLC Licensing agreement to produce trading cards with numerous collegiate trademarks. UD goes out on a high note with solid release with three autographs per box.

The base cards set has 100 cards total with half of those being regular player cards. Autographed parallels of base cards come in two levels: Emerald (#’d to 75 or less) and Red (#’d to 3 or less).

There are 25 Authentic Moments cards that highlight historic moments from the college hardwood, including five dual players cards. Look for Limited Authentic Moments Gold and Dual Gold autograph parallels.

The remainder of the base set is 25 Rookie Extended Series short prints that come eight per box. Rookie Extended Series has two levels of numbered autograph parallels.

Additional autographed content can be found in Limited Autographs (#’d to 75 or less) and Limited Autograph Patches (#’d to 10). Limited Rookies Auto patch cards have two different tiers of cards numbered to 50 or less.

Upper Deck has included autographs from some non-basketball personalities with LeBron James 2003-04 SPA Tribute autos. These are numbered to ten and include signatures from Johnny Manziel, Danica Patrick, Georges St-Pierre and Maria Sharapova.

Future Watch Rookie Autographs have two tiers of first-year player signatures numbered to 475 or less.

Sign of the Times autos are available in single, Dual and Triple versions. Triple auto cards are numbered to 20 or less.

Find more autograph sets, including SP Chirography (#’d to 75 or less), Rookie Chirography (#’d to 99 or less), Immortal Ink (#’d to 3) and Marks of Distinction (#’d to 50 or less).