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2K and EA have got it all wrong. The future isn’t in simulations of actual basketball games. It’s in games based on basketball players. Like RPGs. Or, as we see here, platformers.

Today in weird video game casting: Matt Walsh (Veep, The Hangover) as a very serious college basketball coach in NBA 2K17's MyCareer mode.

NBA Live 17 will not arrive this fall, but early next year under the more generic title NBA Live. The series hasn’t been so hot for a while but try try again? On an investor call, EA said more details are coming soon, and a mobile game is coming later this year. The NBA All-Star game takes place in February.

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