2022-23 Panini Prizm: Home of Banchero's Silver Prizm Rookie

2022-23 Panini Prizm sits at the center of the Banchero rookie conversation — it’s the set most collectors mean by default when they say “Banchero rookie card.” Its chrome finish gives the rookie a premium, modern look, and the Silver Prizm parallel — the iconic un-numbered “silver” — turned it into the single most recognizable card in his rookie class.

Why this set matters for Banchero collectors

• It delivered his flagship Prizm rookie during the 2022-23 rookie season, on the finish that defines the modern chrome-card market.
• The Silver Prizm parallel is the key chase, sitting atop a colored parallel rainbow (Green, Blue, Red, and numbered refractors).
• High-grade copies (PSA 10 / BGS 9.5) command significant premiums given how tough the chrome finish is to keep flawless.
• It’s the default reference point: when other set reviews on this site compare their own rookie to “the chrome flagship,” this is the set they mean.
• It anchors the deepest single-brand chase in his rookie class — the full color ladder runs six tiers from base to one-of-one.

We don’t publish print runs or fixed prices — the live eBay links across the site show exactly what these cards are trading for right now.

The Prizm rainbow, quickly

• Base Prizm rookie — the standard 2022-23 Prizm rookie with no color overlay, and the most accessible way to own the design.
• Silver Prizm — the unnumbered “silver” finish and the single most iconic Banchero Prizm parallel.
• Non-numbered color & pattern parallels — finishes like Red White & Blue and Hyper that add color without a serial number; the affordable middle of the rainbow.
• Serial-numbered color parallels — colors such as Blue, Purple, and Red that carry a serial number capping the print run.

Sourcing note: we have not been able to verify this set’s card number or its parallel print runs against a published checklist. checklistinsider.com, the checklist source we can reach, indexes NBA products from 2023-24 onward — its 2023-24 Panini Prizm page publishes the full numbered ladder for that year, but it has no page for any 2022-23 Panini basketball release, and every other checklist database blocks us. So this page describes the rainbow by finish and scarcity, which is what a listing photo will show you, and leaves the exact serial numbers to be read off the card in hand. For a Banchero number we can source: his base card is #183 on the 2024-25 Panini Prizm checklist — a second-year card, not a rookie.

• Gold /10 — the gold finish limited to ten copies.
• Black 1/1 — the one-of-one apex of the rainbow.

Confirm the exact parallel name and numbering against the listing photo or slab label — several tiers look close to identical in a thumbnail. The Prizm parallels rainbow guide breaks down every tier in depth with a live eBay link for each.

Prizm vs. the other chrome rookies

Prizm, Select, Optic, and Mosaic are the four 2022-23 chrome rookies, and each builds the chase differently. Select splits its rookie across three tiers — Concourse, Premier, Courtside — instead of Prizm’s single base-to-Silver ladder. Optic is Donruss’s chrome cousin, carrying the Rated Rookie banner onto a refractor finish. Mosaic swaps Prizm’s refractor look for its own prismatic pattern. Prizm’s edge is name recognition: the Silver Prizm is the rookie most non-collectors picture, which keeps demand — and prices — ahead of its chrome siblings at comparable grades.

Buying it safely

For anything beyond a low-grade raw copy, buy graded so both authenticity and condition are guaranteed — chrome cards live and die by centering and edge chipping, and Prizm’s surface shows chips and scratches more readily than paper stock. Run a scan through the card centering tool before you buy raw, and if you’re deciding whether to send a raw copy in for grading, check the math first on the grading ROI calculator — Silver and base copies routinely justify the fee, but always confirm against current PSA 10 comps before you ship a card in. When comparing prices, look at sold comps rather than asking prices.

New to his rookies? Start with the collecting guide for how to pick a card and spot altered slabs, use the rookie card checklist to see every 2022-23 brand at a glance, and browse the rookie-cards top list to open live eBay listings across the whole rookie run. Chasing autos instead? See the autographs guide, and for where his cards went after the rookie year, the season-by-season timeline.