{"id":108725,"date":"2025-08-31T13:05:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T13:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/108725\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T13:05:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T13:05:04","slug":"ok-nba-2k26-this-is-how-you-begin-a-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/108725\/","title":{"rendered":"OK NBA 2K26, this is how you begin a game"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not always a huge fan of NBA 2K’s career modes, but I have to say this is my favorite beginning to one of them in – ever. <\/p>\n

Minor spoilers for NBA 2K26 to follow!<\/p>\n

Your soon-to-be-created player, as always affectionately known as “MP,” has a chance to talk basketball with defending NBA champion and NBA 2K26<\/a> cover star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. They arrive at a classic basketball debate, who’s your all time-starting five? Of course, since they’re both NBA players (at least, your player is about to be), theirs is actually a starting four that they’ll lead onto the court.<\/p>\n

After Shai picks his four, you pick yours and play the opposing squad. As a child whose basketball love was cultivated in the 70s and 80s, I picked Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and LeBron James. I only ended up with LeBron because Shai had already picked Michael.<\/p>\n

For what it’s worth, we won the game, and I won’t lie, I didn’t do much other than pass. With that lineup, I didn’t need to. But the power fantasy of running with that squad was as awesome as anything I have ever done in a game. <\/p>\n

From here, it wasn’t long until I got to run with MP in a high-school game, in which the mission is, of course, to show everyone you’re the best baller in the gym. In this game I got my first taste of GOAT skills, which function kind of like a takeover. This was apparently in NBA 2K25, but I don’t think I got that far into MyPlayer last year.<\/p>\n

It’s awesome to watch time slow down, see the skill has been activated, and then become superhuman. I don’t know if MyPlayer will hook me all the way to completion, but man did it get off to an explosive start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I’m not always a huge fan of NBA 2K’s career modes, but I have to say this is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-108725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}