2025-26 Topps Finest Basketball Break Highlights

Since its hoops debut in 1993-94, Finest Basketball has never been dull. It was a product that embraced the bold colors and trends of the time, something that’s at the forefront of 2025-26 Topps Finest Basketball, the brand’s first NBA release since 2007-08.

While there are elements from the past as far as inspiration goes, this return is very much modern with a vast mix of autographs, parallels and rare parallels to chase whether you’re busting a box or partaking in a break.

On-Card Autographs

2025-26 Topps Finest Basketball delivers a lot of ink. Hobby boxes come with a pair of signatures while Breaker’s Delight boxes have three.

Styles vary but they all have something in common—hard signatures.

Finest Rookie Autographs put the spotlight on the season’s deep first-year class. Cooper Flagg, Dylan Harper and Kon Knueppel are among the headliners.

Drawing from late 1990s Finest is Masters Autographs. It’s a new take on a notable theme from the brand’s past. Here it’s a showcase for almost 50 past and present stars including LeBron James, Victor Wembanyama, Larry Bird, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.

Breaker’s Delight boxes have a couple of exclusive autograph sets, Electrifying Signatures and Colossal Shots Autographs.

Rounding things out are Finest Autographs and Baseline Autographs.

All signature sets have a variety of Refractor parallels as well.

SSP Inserts

The 2025-26 Topps Finest Basketball checklist has eight additional insert sets outside of its autographs. Some show up regularly while some are much tougher.

Pulse stands out in a product that is filled with big designs. Dropping 1:60 hobby and 1:10 breaker packs, they’re one of the marquee inserts on the 2025-26 Topps Finest Basketball checklist.

The Man, a Finest classic, returns. The theme originally showed up in 1998 Finest Baseball but has been featured in a variety of releases and sports in recent years. This marks the first time The Man has been included in an NBA-licensed release. They are incredibly tough, though, falling 1:480 hobby packs and 1:161 Breaker’s Delight packs.

Neither of these two insert sets have additional parallels.

Taking rarity even further are Headliners and Aura. Headliners are 1:648 hobby and 1:161 breaker packs. Aura are among the scarcest cards in the entire product at 1:962 hobby and 1:161 breaker packs.

Levelling Up the Rainbow

The 2025-26 Finest Basketball base set has 300 total cards. However, it’s broken down into three equal sections: Common, Uncommon and Rare. This is another throwback for the brand, mimicking the late 1990s.

Each level has its own design, although all are extremely colorful.

Hobby boxes typically have 28 Common, six Uncommon and a pair of Rare cards.

Of course, there’s a rainbow of Refractors that go with these. All three sections have the same assortment of colors, however print runs vary with Common cards having the biggest and Rare the lowest.

Collectors can expect a dozen Refractors per hobby box. Breaker’s Delight boxes are the only place to find Geometric cards.

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