2025–26 Select EuroLeague: Dončić in Belgrade, Saras in Full Color

Saras Jasikevičius stretches across a burst of color, the ball tucked into one hand and his legs almost spanning the card. Black Color Blast gives his white-and-green Panathinaikos uniform a spectacular setting: a black field, a cloud of electric blue, pink and orange, and enough open space to see the whole move.

The small season label says 2011–12. That detail matters. 2025–26 Panini Select EuroLeague reaches across different chapters of European basketball, including Luka Dončić's 2017–18 Real Madrid season and Vassilis Spanoulis in Olympiacos stripes. The familiar Select tiers and parallels come with club identities and moments worth collecting in their own right.

Panini's first Select EuroLeague release also brings three SSP insert families, memorabilia cards and autographs. Here are the specific cards that make the debut interesting, how their checklist entries differ and what comes in a standard hobby box.

Dončić's Select Hosts Gold belongs to his Belgrade chapter

Dončić's Select Hosts Gold is card 7, numbered to ten. The landscape design places him in a white Real Madrid uniform beside the Final Four Belgrade 2018 emblem, with a broad gold frame wrapping around both. The event gets nearly as much space as the player. For this card, that is exactly the right decision.

In Belgrade, Real Madrid beat Fenerbahçe 85–80 to win its tenth European title. Dončić earned both the season MVP and Final Four MVP awards that weekend. Real Madrid's account of the championship supplies the context for the card's 2017–18 season line: this was a defining achievement of his Madrid career.

The card combines an identifiable event, the right club uniform and a ten-copy parallel. A Dončić collection built around his career has a clear place for it: a modern card commemorating the European championship season, with the host-city emblem doing real storytelling work. The gold border feels celebratory without burying the photograph or the event.

Three SSP designs, three different player lists

Black Color Blast has 25 subjects in Panini's full checklist. Jasikevičius is card 1, Dončić is 3 and Victor Wembanyama, represented with ASVEL, is 4. Kendrick Nunn, Mike James, Pau Gasol and Dimitris Diamantidis are among the other names. The landscape Saras design is especially effective because his extended stride fills the wide frame; the powder effect follows the action instead of covering it.

Color Wheel also has 25 subjects, but it is a different roster. Sasha Vezenkov's card 2 puts his red-and-white Olympiacos uniform against concentric white rings and angular rainbow panels. The rings tighten behind his body, making him appear to move toward the viewer. It is a more structured, geometric composition than Black Color Blast's loose cloud of color.

Solar Eclipse has 20 subjects. Nando De Colo is card 1, with a full-body photograph in Fenerbahçe colors, a large portrait emerging from the darkness above him and a bright orange flare at the right edge. Dončić and Wembanyama appear here too, at 7 and 8. De Colo appears in Solar Eclipse but not the other two SSP checklists; Jasikevičius appears in Black Color Blast and Color Wheel but not Solar Eclipse. A player collection will not necessarily have all three designs to chase.

Panini identifies all three as super-short-printed inserts. Their checklist entries do not specify serial limits or pack odds; the 25, 25 and 20 figures count subjects, not copies of each card.

Three hobby tiers give the same player distinct card numbers

Standard Hobby centers on Concourse, Premier Level and Courtside. The checklist assigns 100 cards to each: Concourse 1–100, Premier Level 101–200 and Courtside 201–300. Dončić appears at 19, 123 and 202, so his three-tier run consists of three separately numbered cards.

The full release checklist also includes 100 Mezzanine cards, numbered 301–400. That broader checklist spans formats; Panini's standard hobby description specifically names the first three tiers.

Spanoulis's Courtside Zebra is card 225, and its preview identifies his 2017–18 season. The red ribbon-like bands echo his Olympiacos jersey, while gold outlines separate the player from the black-and-white pattern. There is a lot going on around him, but the full-height dribbling photograph remains the focal point.

Sloukas, James and González take different autograph routes

Kostas Sloukas's Prime Selections Signatures Green is card 2, /5. His Panathinaikos uniform and the green parallel frame work together, with a large memorabilia window occupying the upper left and a separate signature panel below. The preview's clover-shaped fabric detail makes the club connection immediate.

Mike James's Top Shelf Signatures Tie-Dye is card 22, /25. His black-and-gold Monaco uniform sits above an expansive white signature area. The multicolored bands curve around the image and autograph, giving this card a louder border while keeping the signing space easy to read.

Hugo González's In Flight Signatures Black Finite is card 13, a 1/1. His airborne Real Madrid photograph, labeled 2024–25, sits within a tall arch over the signature. Blue sky and clouds remain visible around the black refractor field. That mix gives the one-of-one design some air and brightness instead of making every surface black.

Nunn's jumbo swatch makes the fabric the centerpiece

Kendrick Nunn's Jumbo EuroLeague Swatches Black Finite is card 3, a 1/1. His portrait occupies the upper portion, while the square memorabilia window takes up much of the lower half. Green bands and gold outlines connect the Panathinaikos uniform to the fabric window, with the black refractor pattern filling the surrounding frame.

Compared with Sloukas's autograph-and-memorabilia card, Nunn's layout gives the swatch more uninterrupted room. The two are compelling companion designs for a Panathinaikos collection because they use the same club colors so differently. These are promotional previews; the illustrated fabric does not establish the eventual card's patch or game-use provenance.

Hobby timing, price and box contents

Select EuroLeague's hobby release was scheduled for May 2026, according to Southern Hobby's release calendar. Panini offers the standard hobby box for $120. It contains six packs of eight cards, or 48 cards, with 12 boxes in a case.

The advertised average is three autograph or memorabilia cards combined, 12 Prizms and three inserts per box. That configuration applies to the standard Hobby box; First Off the Line and Mega are separate formats.

The most persuasive cards in this debut do something specific with their subjects. Dončić's Select Hosts gives his Belgrade championship its own stage. Jasikevičius's Black Color Blast uses the entire width of his stride. The Sloukas and Nunn designs turn Panathinaikos green into part of the composition. Those are the details that make Select EuroLeague worth a close look beyond the familiar parallel names.