I've liked refractors since Topps Finest first came out with them in 1993. I could piece together the team sets of the Lakers, Steelers, and Red Sox each year and that was a lot of fun. Basketball refractors with action shots on them look especially good with the reflective rainbow surface. They often have opposing players in the backgrounds. While the featured players are bright, background players look almost ghostly, as if they're in a state of temporal flux or a thick mist. Finest stopped making basketball refractors after 2007-08. The two previous year's sets were paltry, so it wasn't a complete shock. So for 2008-09 I switched to Bowman Chrome Refractors. But alas, they too discontinued after one more year. It wasn't until just a couple years ago that I learned Panini had picked up refractor-like cards again back in 2012-13. And while the name they gave them is quite a mouthful, half tongue twister if said fast, Prizm Prizms Silver were welcome to me. I've been playing catch up with Lakers ever since. A recent COMC order took four more off my want list.
2012-13 Metta World Peace
2015-16 Shaquille O'Neal
2013-14 Kobe Bryant
2015-16 Anthony Brown
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