2024-25 Donruss Optic Basketball

2024-25 Donruss Optic Basketball combines the old and new schools with a chromium take on a longstanding brand. Like previous years, the result is a vast checklist filled with color, autographs and inserts. Hobby boxes promise one autograph as well as an average of either an insert or parallel per pack. Choice and Fast Break, a couple of other configurations, also have an autograph per box but these have their own spins as far as exclusives and overall focus. The base set has 300 total cards, highlighting veterans (225 cards), legends (25 cards) and Rated Rookies (50 cards). The design matches that of 2024-25 Donruss Basketball, although this time it’s on chrome stock. Parallels come in lots of colors and styles. Hobby-only versions include: Fast Break boxes have a dozen parallels, all of which are only in those particular boxes: Seven of the eight cards in each Choice box are exclusive parallels that have small circles running through the background. Among them are: The core of the autographs in 2024-25 Donruss Optic Basketball are Rated Rookies Signatures. These carry the same look as the base cards and come with their own parallels including some that are exclusive to certain box types. More autographs can be found in Opti-Graphs and Rookie Dual Signatures.