Each rebound, assist, steal, and quality shot you take adds to your teammate grade. It starts at a C but fluctuates both up and down based on your play. When playing games with your created player, notice the teammate grade in the upper righthand corner. You get to pick the incentive(s) with each endorsement deal, so make sure to choose a qualifier that makes sense for your style of play.
These incentive-based offers often include bonuses for filling the box score with say, 15 points and 12 assists in one game. Endorsement deals typically give you appearance fees for events and rewards for good play on the court. Once you hit thresholds such as 100,000 and 250,000, a new endorsement deal opportunity crops up. While playing a game, you’ll earn fans for good play. The same negotiating tactic should be used for endorsement deals, which spring up each time you hit a fan milestone. You can’t get too greedy here, but it’s pretty easy to get the offer increased at least 20 or 30 VC. Instead, make a counteroffer, bumping up the per game VC. The team will make you an offer that gives you a set amount of VC per game as a salary. But since you’re an up and coming player, the teams who show interest in you are generally lottery teams.Īfter picking your first NBA team, you will have to negotiate your contract. Eventually, you can force a trade anyway, and if you’ve been performing well, the Lakers might actually want you. Generally, you should pick the team that offers you the most playing time. If you had your heart set on playing with LeBron on the Lakers, but they only want to offer you five minutes of playing time, well, it’s not a good idea. Some teams will want you more than others. Pretty cool, right? Negotiate contracts and endorsement dealsĪt the end of The Prelude, the story-driven prologue that takes your player from China to the G-League, you have your pick of NBA teams. At 91, an arcade machine containing an old school version of NBA 2K gets delivered to your loft. At 85, vehicles like skateboards and scooters can be bought to help you travel around the Neighborhood. For instance, at 75, you can modify your own unique jumpshot.
The more you upgrade individual stat categories, the higher your overall rating becomes.Īt milestone ratings (every five points until it turns to every single point at 90), you unlock new animations, items, and features in the Neighborhood. Each attribute upgrade costs VC, and as you climb the ladder, attributes become costlier. VC can be used to upgrade your player’s attributes in the MyPlayer menu. As you play, however, you’ll earn virtual currency (VC), the coin that makes the Neighborhood go round.
You start off as a lowly 60-rated player, which basically means that all of your stats are pretty bad. This is all a matter of preference but keep in mind you can become a 99-rated player no matter your position, skillset, and physical stature. While we tinkered with these values a little bit, it’s best not to go nuts, as the positive gains for stats don’t necessarily outweigh the problems you create in other categories.
As you move the slider for each value, notice how certain attributes go up and others go down. You’ll then be asked to adjust your height, weight, and wingspan. For instance, as a shooting guard, we picked three-point shooting as our primary skill and shot creating as our secondary skill. Pick skills that make sense for the style of play you desire. These archetypes affect the skill ceiling for certain attributes like passing, ball handling, three-point shooting, shot creating, and mid-range jumpers. Next, pick a primary and secondary skill. And if you want to score from the outside, perhaps choose shooting guard or small forward. If you want to dominate the paint, power forward or center are good options. If you want to have the ball in your hands on every possession, pick point guard. While customizing your appearance is fun, the most important part is picking your position and skills. The first thing you do in M圜areer is create your player. We’ve put together a M圜areer guide that will get you on the right track towards that goal. The ultimate goal, however, is to become an NBA star with a 99 rating, the max grade a player can receive in NBA 2K19. As an RPG, there’s a lot to manage and even more to do. Neighborhood almost makes it more of a role-playing game than a sports sim. Along with going to practice and competing in the grind that is the NBA season, you can stroll over to the gym to lift, head to blacktop for pickup games against real players, and even play a pseudo version of Slamball. NBA 2K19‘s M圜areer mode, for the second year in a row, features a robust social hub dubbed the Neighborhood.