NBA 2K24 Tips Off This September On Switch With Kobe Bryant As Its Cover Athlete

Sexual offender. Perfect cover athlete, Take Two.

@Magician he's a very good athlete though so all is forgiven right?

@quinnyboy58 He's lucky he lived in California, a no-fault state for adultery. Wife would've taken him to the cleaners otherwise.

@Magician
If you can shoot a ball through a hoop then you are automatically exempt from breaking the law.

Same with throwing a ball far, unless you gamble on another sport, then it’s jail for life.

Lebron james cover next?

A couple of things.

I wasn't expecting them to quadruple down on Kobe for the next game. He seems like low hanging fruit to me at this point. Being that Denver Nuggets' Nikola Jokic has really become a big name I expected him to be more in the spotlight giving what a star he was during this last post season.

Also, I've been out of sports games for so long when I see all that virtual currency, promo packs, boost stuff, points, etc. whenever the next game is coming I get so confused. Is it no longer about just turning on the game and playing a match? Between this, Madden, various soccer games it seems like all that jazz is pushed to the forefront way before just straight up playing a game of winning or losing match.

I thought we were getting another Kobe Bryant Basketball game. Loved the one on GameCube

Did you do your wife and family wrong? Just give her millions in jewelry and property. Problem solved. A move more efficient than his fade away J.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rts8UoqGH4

Regardless what he may or may not had done, isn't Kobe Bryant, like, dead? Why use a dead player to promote your upcoming game?

Zombie Ball would be pretty interesting. Aren't there like hundreds or thousands of other living players to use? What about that Wamabanayanayana guy who's security just slapped Britney Spears? He seems like a role model...because he's..tall I guess? Or Britney Griner, the international drug smuggler?

@quinnyboy58 it worked for rapist and registered sex offender Iron Mike Tyson.
https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/flyer.jsf?personId=40622

@HammerGalladeBro to manipulate emotions that’ll lead one to buy the game

@theModestMouse Spears lied about that, footage just came out that showed she slapped herself. lol

https://apple.news/AsWVg_ZVsRe2utTWk4Ly31g

Gameplay hasn’t been good IMO since 2K11. At least isn’t playing 2K23 on PS5 (can’t imagine Switch is any different as probably uses same engine).

With no more X360/PS3, I bought for 2K16 Xbox One (play on Series X). Not 2K11 gameplay,, but still acceptable.

I just play these game to sim the franchise mode for 80 years.

Ummm they already did a Black Mamba edition for 2k20. This is just being lazy.

I wish they'd make good basketball games again.

@Taro My second favorite basketball series after the early 2010's 2k games. I just started a new season on the gbc game yesterday actually.

Kobe was a great baller since his rookie days even starring in his own games on the N64 and Gamecube. I was lucky enough to get a courtside seat and watch him play his last game in Utah against the Jazz before he retired that same season (March 28, 2016). Regardless of his offenses and personal life, he brought a lot to the game. He's been featured twice (2021 and 2024) on NBA2K covers since his death, and while that's great, a safe bet, (a controversial take here) but it's also a sign of the lack of role model NBA players today.

No mods in here.

Too busy in the Nintendo doesn’t hire women thread.

@Magician Oh please, where is the evidence of sexual assault? He absolutely cheated on wife, no doubt about that. But the evidence is incredibly lacking to make genuine claims that he definitively committed sexual assault beyond the hearsay of one woman. And, no, I don't subscribe to the idea of 'believe all women all the time.' Women can and have lied, just as much as men, and when a nice little payday might be in store for anyone, it's not hard to see why the temptation may exist to lie to begin with. Now, if there were dozens of accusations a la Bill Cosby, then that would be a different story, but one instance of hearsay alone is never enough in my book. I mean, yeah, he was absolutely a piece of ***** to cheat on his wife, likewise for Tiger Woods, but cheating does not equal sexual assault without physical evidence.

@Nico07 Man, if you want a role model in the NBA today that is also quite possibly the best player in the league, then look at Giannis Antetokounmpo. He might be the most wholesome athlete in any professional sport today. I would absolutely say he's a great man to look to for fantastic role models in the NBA today.

2K23: Michael Jordan
2K24: Kobe Bryant
2K25: ...Nick Anderson?

@duffmmann Agreed, and again another athlete that was featured in 2K19.

@Poodlestargenerica
That game is a classic
I should pick it up again

@mrMike he admitted the sex “may have not been entirely consensual” under oath. That’s a rapist, dude.

@duffmmann https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobe_Bryant_sexual_assault_case

@Ganner This is the problem with EVERY major sports title now, especially by EA or 2k. Even wrestling will occasionally boot straight to the buy packs mode before you can even do anything else. My house still has a working copy of 2k5. I don't like football and I still play it with people. That should say everything about major sports games now.

I'm all for the figurative stoning of the adulterer, but let's not jump to conclusions about allegations for which he was not convicted (and what was said publicly about it screams of cynical PR wording).

Ultimately, his wife stayed with him until the end, so make of that what you will.

@hel105 i recently played the 2k3 version on switch since it was free for a week. But it feels really laggie. So ii would go the other route

Will it require like 50GB download?

@dojmin : Likely more.

NBA2K23 on Switch is 55.6GB.

And NBA2K22 before it is 50.2GB.

@PtM first of all, I'm absolutely not a fan. Never thought much about Kobe at all.

More importantly though, I simply don't subscribe to the idea of guilty until proven innocent. Scary to think people are on-board with that kind of mentality. Hope you never find yourself with your name and reputation permanently tainted without any actual evidence of the crime in question.