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NBA2K: Stay ME7O. Stay legendary. 👌 Carmelo Anthony is your #NBA2K26 Superstar Edition Cover Athlete! Pre-order NBA 2K26 today!

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Shams Charania: Summer of SGA: MVP award, league scoring title, an NBA championship, Finals MVP, a $285 million super max extension, first signature shoe release ... and now Shai Gilgeous-Alexander will grace the new cover of NBA 2K26, per sources.

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The NBA, video game giant Take-Two Interactive and the National Basketball Players Association have agreed in principle to a multiyear extension of their partnership, continuing the NBA 2K video game franchise, while also expanding into new areas. One of those new areas is media and entertainment, with the companies unveiling what they are calling NBA Take-Two Media, which will combine competitive gaming, social and long-form entertainment programming and live events.

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“NBA 2K has engaged a new generation of basketball fans in an increasingly digital world,” said NBA Commissioner Adam Silver in a statement. “By expanding our partnership and creating NBA Take-Two Media, we look forward to building on the incredible success of the NBA 2K franchise.”

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One of the first shows to debut from the new company will be a travel series fronted by former NBA all-star Joakim Noah, who will travel around the world to explore how basketball is played in local communities.

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Miami Heat star Tyler Herro is known for his sharpshooting on the court, but it turns out he’s developing a reputation as a front-office mastermind—at least in the virtual world. During a live stream with content creators Adin Ross and NEON on the Kick, Herro revealed a unique gaming habit that’s now going viral, he rebuilds every NBA team he plays against in NBA 2K. This candid moment came during a casual conversation streamed to thousands. In a clip shared by user @Vinod_r108 on X, formerly Twitter in response to a post from @Fearbuck, Herro explains that he often plays 2K’s “MyGM” mode after games, using real matchups as his inspiration.

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🎭..Rai ji..💪🎭: Tyler Herro tells Adin Ross and NEON that he tries to rebuild every team he plays during the season on NBA 2K 😭

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Two-time NBA All Star Tyrese Haliburton is making the move from the basketball court to the professional wrestling ring. Well, sort of. During WWE Monday Night Raw on Netflix, the Indiana Pacers’ guard joined announcers Michael Cole and Pat McAfee to announce he’ll be a part of WWE 2K25.

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“I’m really excited,” Haliburton said. “Obviously, I got the opportunity to come and be in the garden and experience that and get the ring a little bit. So I’m excited about being a playable character in the game and yeah, it’s going to be, it’s going to be super cool. So I appreciate the opportunity and I’m looking forward to it.”

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A former lottery pick, he found himself out of the NBA six years ago, playing professionally in China without any promise of returning to the league. But he latched on with the Phoenix Suns in 2020 and hasn’t let go since. He survives on vibes. As a rookie, he didn’t appreciate his overall rating in the video game, NBA 2K16. A 72 grade ranked 242nd in the NBA. So Payne solved the problem himself. He created a new player, named the new player Cameron Payne, moved all the sliders up to 99 (the highest rating) and played a season that technically had two Cam Paynes, refusing to acknowledge the lesser avatar. “I gotta give myself some love,” Payne insisted through a smile.

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Listed at seven feet and 248 pounds, Karl-Anthony Towns is already one of the largest players in the NBA. But while there may be bigger players than him in the league, his pregame fit on Wednesday night proved that there is no bigger Assassin’s Creed fan in the world. The open-world, historical science fiction stealth videogame franchise releases its latest edition, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, on Thursday, March 20, but while that will allow players worldwide to step into feudal Japan to play as either a samurai (Yasuke) or shinobi (Naoe) thanks to its dual playable protagonists, Towns has already gotten to live out the dream for longtime fans of the series, and he didn’t even have to step into The Animus to do it. What dream, you ask? Well, before his New York Knicks took on the San Antonio Spurs, Towns walked into the matchup in a modernized version of the iconic Assassin robes that publisher Ubisoft custom-designed for his seven-foot frame.

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Kuroko’s Basketball will be collaborating with the NBA for a special project on October 16 for its Street Rivals mobile game, according to the official X account. A new visual that features all 30 team logos with Kuroko wearing a Dallas Mavericks uniform alongside Kagami wearing a Chicago Bulls uniform is now out. More information on the collaboration will be revealed at a later date.

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Anime Kuroko's Basketball: [App] "#Kuroko's Basketball Street Rivals" #NBA collaboration will be held from October 16th! ! Details of the collaboration will be announced later from the account below! @KRBS_SR

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If you're one of the few bright spots in a disastrous season for the Los Angeles Lakers, you might deserve to talk a little trash every now and then. That's what Lakers guard Austin Reaves seems to do in his appearance on the new NBA2K25 video game, which sparked fan reactions online. In a snippet uploaded by 2K content creator Chris Smoove on X, formerly Twitter, Reaves claps back at Smoove's MyPlayer (“MP”) for calling him a “wannabe role player.” Ironically, MP starts the video praising Reaves for how inspirational he was for going undrafted to starting with LeBron James. Then, Reaves gets spicy and brings up MP's earlier comments and challenges him to back up his talk.

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