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NBA 2K: Ball Over Everything 100%. Pre-order NBA 2K27 now! Andre Drummond: How’s Jalen Brunson not the cover?
Being on the 2K27 cover is considered a “big milestone” to him, but like the other accolades, it was anticipated. “Just like every achievement in my career, I wish it happened sooner,” he said. “It’s all happening very quick, but I am not satisfied, and I want it to happen quicker. It’s definitely a big milestone, something good. That’s done.”
Wembanyama joined a list of 2K cover athletes that also includes Michael Jordan, Shaquille O’Neal, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Allen Iverson and Luka Dončić. He played the game growing up with his brother and uncle in France. He fondly recalls the time EuroLeague teams were added to the game in 2K14. “I know it means a lot culturally, too,” Wembanyama said. “It’s hard to realize for me that I’m taking more and more space, more real estate in the world of basketball, in what basketball means, in professional basketball.”
NBA 2K: She’s obsessed with the work . Caitlin Clark is your NBA 2K27 Deluxe Edition Cover Athlete.
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NBA 2K: The Rose that grew from the Chicago concrete. Derrick Rose is your NBA 2K27 Ultra Edition Cover Athlete
Jaylen Clark: The another thing that we have is called an NBA licensing check. So, every time you guys play 2K, buy cards for like from Fanatics. We have a a new clothing brand for the NBPA that's coming out called Players United. Anytime you guys spend money with any people that are sponsored with the NBA, we get paid for that. So, this year the licensing check this year was $385,000. That's just for like I said 2K spending money with on cards, jerseys, like everything. So instead of like basically what the license what it does is instead of like LeBron James just making $30 million, all the players have came together and said we're going to include everybody. So everybody gets an equal share. No matter if you're the top dog on your team or you're the bottom dog, we all get the same amount of licensing checks. So that's also a big plus. (…) You have to play 21 or be active for 21 games. If you're not active for 21 games, you do not receive a licensing check. So for example, my first year in the NBA, I did not receive the licensing.
Kahn and Kerr have known each other for nearly twenty years. But Kahn feels close to him for another reason. For years, Kerr's voice echoed in his home every day when his son, a die-hard NBA 2K fan, played the game—Kerr and Marv Albert were the official voice actors. Kahn may still have a chance to make the leap from video games to real life. As the Warriors' coach confirmed, " It could still happen in the future."
Michael Scotto: Anthony Edwards on Mike Conley: “Mike Conley was an All-Star in the NBA. I think people forget about that. Once upon a time, he was one of the best point guards in the league. I always tell him that you used to be one of my favorite players. When I played 2K, I played with you.”
On average, Madden, The Show, NBA 2K, NHL and FIFA/EA FC fell from a metascore of 87.6 two years before they stopped having a major competitor to 81.8 the first year they ran unopposed, a figure that dips to 75.5 — a 14 percent decline — after 11 years without a rival. The downward pattern on the right side of the no-competition line in that chart is unmistakable and fairly unanimous. This is why it has become easy to wax nostalgic (as I have) about the days when there were as many as a half-dozen or more games released per sport per year, giving us bountiful choices to pick from. That’s one of the points made by Jabroni Baseball (a channel I enjoy) in this video investigating the death of baseball video games specifically.
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The NBA Cup may be leaving Sin City. The league is openly considering the possibility of moving the championship game of its in-season tournament away from Las Vegas for next season, sources familiar with the situation told ESPN. That decision, which comes in the wake of the league announcing back in September that this would be the last season both the semifinals and championship game will be played at a neutral site, is a recognition that the neutral site approach has lacked the energy and enthusiasm, at least to this point, the league initially hoped it would.
Even though my kids outgrew games targeted at the elementary school set, I’m still a big proponent of premium games for children and their families. The market needs more of them, especially since so much awful, predatory free-to-play slop pitched as “kid friendly” dominates mobile platforms and Roblox. Outright Games launched NBA Bounce on Sept. 26 for PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo and Steam platforms. While it has colorful characters and lots of fun animations, such as how mascot players dunk, it also seeks to teach the basics of basketball while offering arcade game-like controls that are more intuitive than what you get with NBA 2K.
The NBA helped dish out some more gaming news this week, with Take-Two Interactive announcing the return of the 2K League. This is the esports effort focused on the NBA 2K series. 2K Sports and the NBA pulled the plug on the league in 2024, putting it on hiatus until bringing it back Monday. The revived league is starting with six teams: the Raptors, Celtics, Jazz, Grizzlies, Pistons and Wizards (we’ll get back to Washington later). Other NBA teams will field squads later on. Each squad consists of two content creators and an NBA player (such as the Raptors’ Gradey Dick and the Pistons’ Duncan Robinson), along with fans, competing in challenges and games. It’s going to add more social media elements to the standard esports formula, though it will still have matchups, tournaments and a championship, with teams earning points akin to a PGA Tour ranking. NBA Take-Two Media CEO Andrew Perlmutter showed me an example of a competition based off a TikTok trend with the loser, the Magic’s Wendell Carter Jr., calling an NBA teammate and offering them a compliment (I suggested it would be funnier with insults, but I doubt they’ll take me up on that consultation).
Oh No He Didn't: Donovan Mitchell on his 46-point outburst: "This kid pissed me off today. I was playing 2K. I told him too I was like wait just wait. And he just called me washed up, he called me a bunch of things but I love it. He saying he ain't seen a highlight from me in a minute and I just told him alright we'll see. This game was for that kid or grown man whoever that was so I appreciate you. I told him I'd give him a shoutout too" 🤣