2025-26 Donruss Basketball helps usher in a new era of unlicensed cards, following Panini's loss of the NBA license to Topps/Fanatics. This new Donruss release also overlaps themes and styles from Donruss Elite and Donruss Optic.
The Hobby format undergoes a major overhaul, reducing the overall box count from 300 to 96 cards, and increasing the number of autographs to three, up from last season's one per box.
2025-26 Donruss Basketball Checklist Rundown
Despite the airbrushed images to remove team and league logos, the 2025-26 Donruss Basketball checklist still covers league talent from today and yesterday, plus top prospects.
This includes autographs for V. J. Edgecombe, a top pick who doesn't have signed cards in Topps' NBA sets.
Base & Parallel Details
The main card series for 2025-26 Donruss Basketball doubles up with Base and Optic editions, each with its own set of parallels. There should be one base parallel and two Optic or Optic parallels per Hobby pack.
Looking outside the league, "Donruss will be debuting a brand new Panini Premier logo that will feature a top prospect’s first official card from Panini!"
Insert Details
Of course, 2025-26 Donruss Basketball offers many familiar inserts, like Net Marvels, Swish, Unleashed and Zero Gravity. The new Elite Series set is more associated with Donruss Elite NBA.
Fans will likely recognize the super short prints (SSP) in Donruss, as well. This includes Night Moves, which showcases a kaleidoscope of color in a darkened style.
More SSPs arrive via Downtown, making the jump from Donruss Optic, offering Gold (/10) and Gold Vinyl (1/1) parallels.
This is also true for Slammy, another Donruss Optic transplant.
All inserts and insert parallels combine to average eight per Hobby box.
Autograph Details
From there, autographed content helps boost the 2025-26 Donruss Basketball checklist, including the on-card Pen Pals line, which has been utilized in Donruss Elite for years.
More hard-signed cards appear in Art Signatures (Vertical and Horizontal) and Inscriptions.
New or carryover options are found with Elite Signatures, Fade to Greatness, Hardwood Kings, License to Drive and Dual Autographs.
Estimated Release Date: April 2026 (TBA)
2025-26 Donruss Basketball Product Configuration
Hobby Boxes
- 8 cards per pack; 12 packs per box; 16 boxes per case
2025-26 Donruss Basketball Box Break
Hobby Boxes (on average)
- 3 Autographs
- 12 Base Parallels
- 24 Optic/Optic Parallels
- 8 Insert/Insert Parallels
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