{"id":145937,"date":"2025-09-10T06:47:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T06:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/145937\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T06:47:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T06:47:04","slug":"how-to-unlock-the-fiba-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/145937\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Unlock the FIBA Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once you&#8217;ve established a foothold in the NBA in NBA 2K26 MyCareer, you&#8217;ll move on to other projects off the court to help develop your brand while earning VC along the way. One <a href=\"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/db\/video-game\/nba-2k26\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBA 2K26<\/a> MyCareer quest requires you to play in the FIBA Tournament, but you can only access it after reaching a certain milestone in your career.<\/p>\n<p>The FIBA tournament is an offseason activity that gives you the chance to team up with other NBA players to take on teams from around the world. You&#8217;ll have to play FIBA games to complete <a href=\"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/nba-2k-26-how-to-complete-your-passion-project-merchandising-tier-6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Merchandising Tier<\/a> 7, and it&#8217;s also a requirement for MyPlayer Endorsement objectives. You&#8217;ll earn thousands of VC if you can make it to the FIBA Tournament, so it&#8217;s worth the wait.<\/p>\n<p>                        How to Play in a FIBA Tournament in NBA 2K26<\/p>\n<p>                                                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NBA 2K26 FIBA Tournament Bracket\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/nba-2k26-fiba-tournament-bracket.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/nba-2k26-fiba-tournament-bracket.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p> FIBA games are exclusively available during the offseason in NBA 2K26. After your first professional season in the NBA, you&#8217;ll have the chance to play your first FIBA game. The FIBA Tournament will happen after you complete your second NBA season, so there are quite a few games ahead of you.<\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve completed your second NBA season, you&#8217;ll find the FIBA games in the MyCareer tab of the menu with other offseason activities. Just choose to play your next game, and it&#8217;ll start a FIBA match for you. You can choose any opponent you want if it&#8217;s not a tournament year, but the FIBA tournament bracket after your second season is determined ahead of time.<\/p>\n<p>                                                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NBA 2K26 Merchandising Tier 7\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/nba-2k26-merchandising-tier-7.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/nba-2k26-merchandising-tier-7.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p> FIBA matches gather some of the best basketball talent from around the globe, so make sure you&#8217;re prepared with upgraded attributes and <a href=\"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/nba-2k26-how-unlock-custom-takeovers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Takeovers<\/a>. You have to win the FIBA Tournament or any three FIBA games in order to complete Merchandising Tier 7, so losing isn&#8217;t an option unless you want to sit through a whole other NBA season waiting for the chance to play FIBA games again.<\/p>\n<p>If you win your FIBA games, you&#8217;ll take home <a href=\"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/nba-2k26-how-get-vc-fast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">several thousand VC<\/a> that you can use to upgrade your player&#8217;s attributes, buy new clothing items, or rip open some packs in MyTeam. It&#8217;s a long grind to reach that point, but you&#8217;ll also earn REP, VC, and other rewards as you play key NBA games and complete quests in the City.<\/p>\n<p>                                                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NBA 2K26 Tag Page Cover Art\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/nba-2k26-tag-page-cover-art.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/nba-2k26-tag-page-cover-art.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>    \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/db\/video-game\/nba-2k26\/\" title=\"NBA 2K26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tNBA 2K26<br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                            Released<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSeptember 5, 2025<\/p>\n<p>                                            ESRB<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tEveryone \/ In-Game Purchases, Users Interact<\/p>\n<p>                                            Engine<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tUnreal Engine 5<\/p>\n<p>                                            Multiplayer<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOnline Multiplayer, Online Co-Op, Local Multiplayer, Local Co-Op<\/p>\n<p>                                            Cross-Platform Play<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tYes &#8211; PS5\/Xbox Series only<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Once you&#8217;ve established a foothold in the NBA in NBA 2K26 MyCareer, you&#8217;ll move on to other projects&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-145937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}