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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

2018 · Panini Donruss Basketball · #162

The regular Donruss #162 is included in PSA’s Gilgeous-Alexander Rookie Set.

Sport: Basketball
Year / season: 2018
Set: Panini Donruss Basketball
Number: #162
Format: Card
Issue status: Rookie card

About this card

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s 2018 Panini Donruss Basketball card is number 162 in that release. Donruss is Panini’s paper-stock base brand, carrying a name that goes back to the early 1980s. In its football and basketball sets, first-year players usually appear in the Rated Rookies subset, marked with the Rated Rookie logo, and many cards also come in Press Proof parallels.

The catalog labels this a rookie card, based on the source cited below.

How to identify it

Look for the Rated Rookie logo on rookie cards and for the stamping or foil that marks a Press Proof. Insert sets inside Donruss have their own designs and numbering, so an insert’s name belongs with its number.

In Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s run

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has 5 entries in this catalog, from 2018 to 2025–26, and this is the earliest of them. Nearby entries are listed below, so you can compare the releases that sit around this one.

In the 2018 checklist

This is the only entry from the 2018 Panini Donruss Basketball release in the catalog so far. The full release has more cards; this page covers the one cataloged here.

What to know about this issue

Donruss and Donruss Optic both use #162 for Gilgeous-Alexander.
PSA’s checklist lists those two brands as separate rookie issues.

Inspect the source

Source reviewed 2026-10-07. The source describes this issue; it does not verify any item offered by a third party.

PSA Set Registry: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Rookie Set Checklist (opens in a new tab)

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The issue stays 2018 · Panini Donruss Basketball. These are research checks, not a condition assessment of a specimen.

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