2025–26 Origins EuroLeague: Nunn, Luka and Club Legends

Kendrick Nunn's Blank Slate is the card that makes you stop scrolling. His green Panathinaikos uniform floats against a pale, canvas-like background, with a thin blue frame and almost nothing competing with his shooting motion. In a release that also puts enormous tiger eyes behind basketball players, that restraint feels especially good.

2025–26 Panini Origins EuroLeague Basketball is the brand's EuroLeague debut. It brings a 100-card base set, elaborate autograph booklets and a checklist that treats European club history as a major attraction. Luka Doncic appears in Real Madrid white; Pau Gasol and Juan Carlos Navarro share a Barcelona booklet; Vassilis Spanoulis and Saras Jasikevicius appear together as coaches. There is plenty here for a collector whose basketball loyalties start with a club crest.

Luka in Madrid, Wembanyama in Villeurbanne

Panini's official checklist has 100 base cards and 10 base variations. Doncic is base card 73, Victor Wembanyama 69, Nunn 8 and Gasol 90. Wembanyama's team is LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne, while Doncic represents Real Madrid. Those club identities are the point of these cards, and a useful reason to look beyond their NBA collections.

The Doncic preview puts him in a white number-seven Madrid uniform against a dense sweep of blue, purple, orange and green. A dark circular pattern below him gives the composition some depth without swallowing the player. The front explicitly identifies 2017–18, even though the product is 2025–26. That season detail makes this a retrospective club card, not a new rookie issue.

The ten variations include Doncic, Wembanyama, Nunn and Shane Larkin. They offer a focused companion chase within the larger base checklist. The full checklist covers multiple formats, so its entire parallel list should not be read as the contents of one hobby box.

Blank Slate and the eyes across the table

Nunn is card 10 in the ten-card Blank Slate checklist. Doncic, Wembanyama, Mike James and Sergio Llull are also in that set. Nunn's image works because his raised arms and ball give the otherwise open composition a clear direction. The soft lettering and green uniform look particularly sharp against the warm, nearly empty field.

Tiger Eyes takes the opposite approach. Dimitris Diamantidis stands between two enormous turquoise eyes, his green number-13 uniform surrounded by dark fur. His preview identifies 2011–12. White Tiger Eyes uses a colder palette: the Vasilije Micic example puts his red Hapoel uniform in front of pale fur and bright blue eyes. Neither design is shy about making eye contact.

Panini calls Blank Slate, Tiger Eyes and White Tiger Eyes SSP inserts. The official checklist lists 20 subjects in each Tiger Eyes set, but supplies no serial-number limit for these three insert families. The appeal is clear from the designs; an exact print run or pull rate is not established by that SSP label.

Mike James gets the warmest card in the room

Dawn gives Mike James a completely different treatment. The AS Monaco guard dribbles across concentric golden rings, with warm orange light behind him and large white lettering overhead. His dark uniform anchors the image; the background does most of the talking.

James is Dawn card 7, numbered to 75 in the main version. The set has 25 subjects. It is a good example of Origins offering more than the familiar cosmic base design: the sepia-like player treatment and sunrise colors create a distinct mood, without needing an autograph or a memorabilia window to carry the card.

Barcelona's booklet, and two coaches in suits

The Origins of Greatness Booklet Auto pairing of Pau Gasol and Juan Carlos Navarro is one of the release's most appealing club-focused cards. Both players wear Barcelona colors, each gets a full panel, and the signatures sit in separate pale fields beneath the photographs. Purple and pink backgrounds tie the two halves together.

This is card 2, numbered to 10, with a Black 1/1 counterpart. The pictured seasons differ: Gasol's side says 2020–21, Navarro's 2017–18. That makes the design a meeting of Barcelona chapters rather than a claim that the photographs show the same season. Visible autograph stickers appear on both panels of the preview.

The F4Glory Booklet of Spanoulis and Jasikevicius changes the scene. Both appear in suits, with AS Monaco and Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul identified beneath their signatures. Their animated sideline poses give the card a different kind of energy from another dribbling or shooting photograph. The checklist makes this card 1, numbered to 10, again with a Black 1/1. For a collection built around the people who shape a club, the coaches deserve space too.

Sloukas and Larkin put the fabric up front

Kostas Sloukas's Auto Booklet Patch uses its extra width for one enormous green fabric window. The white Adidas mark fills much of the right panel, while the player and signature occupy the left. It is a strong green-and-white composition, with the colorful Origins background pushed toward the edges. Sloukas is card 1 in the set, numbered to 10, with a Black 1/1 version.

Shane Larkin's Club Roots preview takes a different approach: a Turkish flag patch sits directly below his Anadolu Efes photograph. The red rectangle becomes the visual center of the card, surrounded by blue lettering and a star-filled background. Panini's checklist lists Larkin as card 25, with one copy; all 40 Club Roots entries carry that same one-copy designation.

Neither preview specifies whether the memorabilia was game-used. Larkin's compact flag window and Sloukas's sprawling logo panel still give the two cards very different visual personalities.

Six signatures, two very different gatherings

Six Star Signatures has just two checklist entries, each numbered to 10, plus Black 1/1 versions. The first gathers Shane Larkin, Kostas Sloukas, Kendrick Nunn, Vasilije Micic, Mike James and Facundo Campazzo. The second combines Milos Teodosic, Vassilis Spanoulis, Juan Carlos Navarro, Dimitris Diamantidis, Saras Jasikevicius and Georgios Printezis.

The first lineup stretches across Anadolu Efes, Panathinaikos, Hapoel, Monaco and Madrid. The second puts Barcelona, CSKA Moscow and the two Greek rivals into the same signing group. Those combinations make this a league-wide collecting proposition, while the Gasol/Navarro booklet offers a much tighter club connection. Choosing between them is a matter of which basketball story you want the signatures to tell.

What the hobby box actually contains

The hobby release date is June 17, 2026. Panini's hobby box is $100, with one eight-card pack. Its advertised averages are two autographs or memorabilia cards, three parallels and one insert. The two hits are a combined autograph-or-memorabilia count, not a promise of two signatures. Cases contain 12 boxes.

An eight-card box puts a lot of attention on each reveal. Origins gives those reveals several different visual personalities: Nunn's quiet Blank Slate, James's warm Dawn, Larkin's flag patch and a booklet that opens onto two Barcelona signatures. For this debut, the most persuasive argument is already on the fronts of the cards.