Matt Simon, a teenage basketball fan, is currently battling a "debilitating disease". Not that you'd know this, since he also just hit the free agent pool in NBA2K15, meaning anyone with the game can now have him go face-to-face with (or put him in the same lineup as) LeBron James. » 1/18/15 9:00pm 1/18/15 9:00pm

1. Utah Jazz - Karl Malone and John Stockton » 10/03/14 10:40am 10/03/14 10:40am

Who could have guessed that in between choking dudes and fighting his kids Darth Vader would find the time to be a video game baller. » 9/14/14 7:29pm 9/14/14 7:29pm

As we have discussed before, Philadelphia 76ers rookie Joel Embiid is the best at Twitter. He continued to be the best at it last week, when he sent an unsolicited direct message to a member of 2K Sports' marketing team in an attempt to juice his stats in the upcoming NBA 2K15. » 9/08/14 1:26pm 9/08/14 1:26pm

Casey Jones replaced his hockey stick with a pair of basketball shoes for this one, to join the Turtles and play basketball in this NBA 2K14 mod by MkEliteWorksX. » 5/26/14 12:30pm 5/26/14 12:30pm

It's not news that Yao Ming is a gigantic human being, but it's still astonishing when he's juxtaposed with a regular-sized person. Take this AP photo from the All-Star Game, and know that it wasn't edited at all. » 2/17/14 4:59am 2/17/14 4:59am

Marvel and DC superheroes in a modded NBA 2k14... just what basketball needed! A modder named MGX has done just that with the PC version of the game, adding 25 well-known heroes to the roster. » 1/23/14 7:00pm 1/23/14 7:00pm

Want to see something weird? Boot up NBA Live and make sure to install the latest roster update. Now select either the Miami Heat or Brooklyn Nets. Go out to the court, and LeBron James' player indicator now says "King James." » 1/12/14 6:00pm 1/12/14 6:00pm

Get over here! Dwight Howard of the NBA's Houston Rockets is apparently a Mortal Kombat enthusiast. Here he is re-enacting Scorpion's signature move during pre-game introductions against Brooklyn on Friday. [NBA on YouTube] » 11/30/13 2:34pm 11/30/13 2:34pm

Chris Bosh already has raptor-like features, but what if he was literally a raptor? Someone ran with that hypothetical on a game in NBA 2K13, and it turns out that being a raptor that's eight feet tall is a decent advantage. » 8/10/13 9:08pm 8/10/13 9:08pm

The Xbox 360 was released on November 22, 2005. It had 18 launch titles. Now that the Xbox One has been revealed along with a few of its launch games, let's take a look back at the launch titles the 360 had, and see how they hold up. » 5/21/13 8:00pm 5/21/13 8:00pm

The Brooklyn Nets' Brook Lopez talks about his love for Sega Genesis games and Sonic the Hedgehog. » 11/20/12 4:48pm 11/20/12 4:48pm

Army, Navy, Air Force, I haven't played with or against a service academy in years in NCAA Football » 10/21/12 4:30pm 10/21/12 4:30pm. This year, the game added parachutists to deliver the ball to the 50-yard line at Michie Stadium—and I'm told play-by-play man Brad Nessler now pronounces Michie Stadium correctly (it's MIKE-ey, not "Mitchie"). All…

On Sept. 27, EA Sports scrapped NBA Live 13 » 10/12/12 9:00pm 10/12/12 9:00pm, the second straight cancellation in the series' troubled history. Quarterly earnings calls are coming soon and many will be listening intently for anything Electronic Arts has to say about an expensive license, coming to the end of a console generation, that hasn't…

Some hacker cracked open NBA 2K13 » 10/10/12 6:30pm 10/10/12 6:30pm's files with a hex editor, found 17 uniforms on the disc that aren't yet exposed in the game, and created a roster file with all of the jerseys available. One for Oklahoma City, which will almost certainly require a patch to correct—if that can be fixed with a patch.

We get sent weird and hilarious emails all the time, but there is a subtle brilliance to what one Australian reader, Chris, is proposing. I'll just offer it here, verbatim:

Hi Owen,

Mate, would love to see LucasArts bring out a Star Wars sports game, featuring arcade-style NBA, NFL, baseball and NHL. I would…

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Comedian Anthony Richardson knows how to make basketball even more entertaining — fill it with hilarious, clueless commentary that seems to be voiced by somebody who has never watched a game of hoops in his life.

Check out this video of him commentating on an NBA 2k12-simulated matchup of last week's NBA All Star Game. » 2/29/12 12:20pm 2/29/12 12:20pm