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From courtside of the virtual hardwood, it’s Episode #649 of the NLSC Podcast!

What kind of adult plays video games? Well, as it turns out, a large majority of adults nowadays! This week, we’re tackling the topic of gaming in adult life, and the stigma that still surrounds the hobby in 2026. We discuss our experiences and attitude towards gaming as adults compared to when we were younger, and react to a couple of articles: one that outlines the benefits of gaming and shares some illuminating statistics, and one that has a very condescending and narrow-minded view of adult gamers. Our listeners also weigh in with their opinions on the matter, and contrary to some prevailing stereotypes, it would seem that we all have a healthy approach to gaming!

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From courtside of the virtual hardwood, it’s Episode #648 of the NLSC Podcast!

NBA 2K27 has been out for a few weeks now – almost a month if you include Early Access – and in that time, Derek has spent almost 90 hours playing the game. As such, this week he’s providing his in-depth review of NBA 2K27, breaking down the key positives and negatives of gameplay, modes, content, and features, and giving it a score out of ten. We also discuss the game’s current Metacritic scores, comparing the critical and user reviews to the ones for NBA 2K26 and NBA 2K17. In this week’s Community Question, our fellow gamers share their thoughts on NBA 2K27 so far, along with their scores. We wrap things up with some further advice from Derek for getting the most out of this year’s release.

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To get involved with the mailbag or to provide any feedback on the show, hit us up in the comments, reach out on social media, or post here in the NLSC Forum! For more information on the NLSC Podcast including episode guides, check out this page in our Wiki. You can also find the show on our YouTube channel, along with the rest of our video content. As always, thanks for tuning in, and go get buckets!

From courtside of the virtual hardwood, it’s Episode #646 of the NLSC Podcast!

NBA 2K27 is out now for everyone, which means that more gamers have had an opportunity to get their hands on this year’s release and spend ample time on the sticks. To that end, this week we join the community in sharing some further impressions of NBA 2K27 – both positive and negative – covering gameplay, modes, and content. From shooting to dunk timing to fairness in MyTEAM (or a lack thereof), we and our fellow virtual hardwood enthusiasts have a lot to say! We also react to some reviews on Steam that seem rather fishy, as well as a couple that are definitely amusing to read. We’ve also got a few thoughts about the soundtrack, and discuss an interesting detail that we discovered on the Australian PlayStation Store page for NBA 2K27.

Download or play on your mobile device/tablet: CLICK HERE (Running time: 1:12:35 — 50.2MB)

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To get involved with the mailbag or to provide any feedback on the show, hit us up in the comments, reach out on social media, or post here in the NLSC Forum! For more information on the NLSC Podcast including episode guides, check out this page in our Wiki. You can also find the show on our YouTube channel, along with the rest of our video content. As always, thanks for tuning in, and go get buckets!

From courtside of the virtual hardwood, it’s Episode #645 of the NLSC Podcast!

It’s that time of the year again! The preview season is over, and NBA 2K27 is now available via Early Access for gamers who pre-ordered one of the special editions. We’re among those who have already played NBA 2K27 ahead of its full launch on September 4th, and to that end, this week we’re sharing our first hands-on impressions of the game. This includes an in-depth breakdown of all the positives and negatives about gameplay, rosters, and content that we’ve observed so far. Some of our listeners also pre-ordered NBA 2K27 in order to get their hands on it a bit earlier, and they weigh in with their thoughts on the game in this week’s community question.

Download or play on your mobile device/tablet: CLICK HERE (Running time: 1:10:05 — 48.5MB)

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To get involved with the mailbag or to provide any feedback on the show, hit us up in the comments, reach out on social media, or post here in the NLSC Forum! For more information on the NLSC Podcast including episode guides, check out this page in our Wiki. You can also find the show on our YouTube channel, along with the rest of our video content. As always, thanks for tuning in, and go get buckets!

From courtside of the virtual hardwood, it’s Episode #644 of the NLSC Podcast!

The big NBA 2K27 infodump has come and gone, which means it’s essentially a wrap on what has been one of the shortest (and honestly, underwhelming) preview seasons for a Triple-A basketball video game. Nevertheless, we do have some details to discuss, as well as some more gameplay footage courtesy of a recent event for content creators. As such, this week we join the community in reacting to what we’ve seen and learned, while also sharing a few thoughts on influencer culture and a disappointing lack of accountability for content creators nowadays. We also share some thoughts on the impending shutdown of NBA Live Mobile, and seemingly the end of NBA Live as a brand.

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To get involved with the mailbag or to provide any feedback on the show, hit us up in the comments, reach out on social media, or post here in the NLSC Forum! For more information on the NLSC Podcast including episode guides, check out this page in our Wiki. You can also find the show on our YouTube channel, along with the rest of our video content. As always, thanks for tuning in, and go get buckets!

News about NBA 2K27 is coming next week, but in the meantime, people are still hitting the virtual hardwood in NBA 2K26, and we’re also seeing new mod releases for the game. To that end, Daex has recently uploaded some conversions of KyotoCarl’s retro All-Star courts for NBA 2K25, ranging from 1992 through to 1998. Check them all out at the links below, and a big thanks to Daex and others who continue to provide free mod releases for NBA 2K26 and other titles!

Daex
1992 All Star – Orlando
1993 All Star – Salt Lake City (ver A)
1993 All Star – Salt Lake City (ver B)
1994 All Star – Minneapolis
1995 All Star – Phoenix
1996 All Star – San Antonio
1997 All Star – Cleveland
1998 All Star – New York

Thanks to everyone who continues to contribute to our Downloads database! If you need help uploading files, be sure to check out this video tutorial. For more information about downloads, the modding community, and Mod Releases bulletins, please see this FAQ in our Wiki.

Get ready for more fantastic highlights from the basketball gaming community in the NLSC Top 10 Plays of the Week, curated by Dee! New and old games alike are featured in this celebration of spectacular moments on the virtual hardwood. To submit your clips, post them in this topic, send Dee a message, or hit him up on X.

Once again, this week’s NLSC Top 10 Plays combines past, present, and future to provide an assortment of impressive highlights that include a little bit of everything. There’s LeBron James in his new Philadelphia 76ers jersey, and Vince Carter rising up to throw down a honey dip. Both of those plays demonstrate how modding enhances our virtual hardwood experience. A couple of NBA 2K14 highlights show how it’s fun to revisit classics with their contemporary rosters. The countdown culminates with an impressive re-creation of a clutch moment for Carmelo Anthony. On top of that, seven different games are on display. Let’s get to the action!

What was your favourite highlight this week? Sound off in the comments below, and once again, get in on the fun by sending us your best plays! Remember, as long as it’s a basketball game, it’s eligible for the countdown. Also, don’t forget to subscribe to us on YouTube for more basketball gaming videos.

From courtside of the virtual hardwood, it’s Episode #642 of the NLSC Podcast!

The NBA 2K27 Gameplay Trailer dropped last week, giving us our first glimpse of this year’s game in action. Unsurprisingly, that glimpse consisted of carefully curated highlights from cinematic angles! We also received a roadmap for the rest of the preview season – which is set to be rather different from previous years – along with a handful of early details about modes and gameplay. The news that’s caught everyone’s attention is the confirmation of a controversial change to dunking, namely that all dunks will require timing. As such, this week we’re joining the community in reacting to the trailer, the expanded use of a Dunk Meter, and everything else that we know about NBA 2K27 so far.

Download or play on your mobile device/tablet: CLICK HERE (Running time: 1:02:50 — 43.5MB)

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To get involved with the mailbag or to provide any feedback on the show, hit us up in the comments, reach out on social media, or post here in the NLSC Forum! For more information on the NLSC Podcast including episode guides, check out this page in our Wiki. You can also find the show on our YouTube channel, along with the rest of our video content. As always, thanks for tuning in, and go get buckets!

Get ready for more fantastic highlights from the basketball gaming community in the NLSC Top 10 Plays of the Week, curated by Dee! New and old games alike are featured in this celebration of spectacular moments on the virtual hardwood. To submit your clips, post them in this topic, send Dee a message, or hit him up on X.

August is here, and since it’s Saturday, we’re tipping off the month with a new NLSC Top 10 Plays! The countdown features some dazzling alley-oops, including a lob to “Top Floor” Terry Hanson as I’ve dusted off my NBA 2K14 MyCAREER once more. Other players are also rocking the rim in spectacular fashion, though Kobe Bryant opted to finish with more finesse following the spin cycle. Nine different basketball video games are on display this week, from NBA Live 2001 all the way through to NBA 2K26. Let’s get to the action!

What was your favourite highlight this week? Sound off in the comments below, and once again, get in on the fun by sending us your best plays! Remember, as long as it’s a basketball game, it’s eligible for the countdown. Also, don’t forget to subscribe to us on YouTube for more basketball gaming videos.

Welcome to another edition of The Friday Five! Every Friday I cover a topic related to basketball gaming, either as a list of five items, or a Top 5 countdown. The topics for these lists and countdowns include everything from fun facts and recollections to commentary and critique. This week’s Five is a list of five events that are realistic, yet feel unrealistic when they happen to us in basketball video games.

To paraphrase a couple of iconic quotes from literary giants that I mentioned in this week’s Wayback Wednesday, truth is stranger than fiction, in no small part because fiction has to adhere to possibilities that real life doesn’t. We mock events in works of fiction that seem too convenient, yet history is filled with serendipity. In a similar vein, common effects in movies and TV shows that make them more dramatic and entertaining – the sound of a blade being drawn, a bullet ricocheting, and so on – skew our expectations of reality.

In short, we’re not always as accurate as we believe when it comes to gauging whether or not something is realistic. This is certainly true of sim basketball games like NBA 2K, and NBA Live back in its heyday. We wanted to see those games become more and more realistic, and the best releases have achieved commendable results in that regard. With that being said, I’ll be the first to put my hand up and admit that my views of what’s realistic and unrealistic in sim titles have sometimes been rigid or myopic. That’s not to say that realistic moments can’t be represented poorly on the virtual hardwood, but even when they’re done well, they can feel unrealistic to us.

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Get ready for more fantastic highlights from the basketball gaming community in the NLSC Top 10 Plays of the Week, curated by Dee! New and old games alike are featured in this celebration of spectacular moments on the virtual hardwood. To submit your clips, post them in this topic, send Dee a message, or hit him up on X.

With all of the aerial artistry on display in this week’s NLSC Top 10 Plays, it’s certainly providing some additional fireworks for the Fourth of July! Players are showing up their opponents, from putting them on posters to messing around with multiple alley-oop passes before finally ending with a spectacular slam. You’ll also see some cool mods, a couple of unique plays, and a great gamewinner from an underdog school in College Hoops 2K8. Want to get hyped for a holiday weekend on the virtual hardwood? Let’s get to the action!

What was your favourite highlight this week? Sound off in the comments below, and once again, get in on the fun by sending us your best plays! Remember, as long as it’s a basketball game, it’s eligible for the countdown. Also, don’t forget to subscribe to us on YouTube for more basketball gaming videos.

We’re at midcourt, and the ball is about to go up…it’s Monday Tip-Off! Join me as I begin the week here at the NLSC with my opinions and commentary on basketball gaming topics, as well as tales of the fun I’ve been having on the virtual hardwood. This week, I’m tipping things off with some thoughts on how I’m not too excited by the fact that NBA 2K27 previews are coming very soon.

July is right around the corner, which means another NBA 2K preview season is looming on the horizon. Naturally, we’ll be covering all of the NBA 2K27 news and previews as they’re posted, both with bulletins summarising the key information and by discussing the latest details on the NLSC Podcast. As always, it’ll be interesting to see what the developers have cooked up this year, and to join Dee in providing some trustworthy analysis and commentary before and after release. To be perfectly honest however, I wish that I were more excited about seeing those NBA 2K27 previews.

That’s not to say that I’m completely disinterested, or that I won’t be locked in as we cover the preview season. Yes, I’ll be getting NBA 2K27 for content and collection purposes, and ideally I’ll end up enjoying it as well. Unfortunately, after the last three NBA 2K games, I’m not entirely optimistic that I will. That dulls my enthusiasm for the forthcoming NBA 2K27 previews, as I’m not expecting to see any of the changes and additions that would get me excited about this year’s release. Of course, my lack of excitement could actually work in my favour. By tempering my expectations I’ll either avoid disappointment, or in the best case scenario, be surprisingly delighted.

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Get ready for more fantastic highlights from the basketball gaming community in the NLSC Top 10 Plays of the Week, curated by Dee! New and old games alike are featured in this celebration of spectacular moments on the virtual hardwood. To submit your clips, post them in this topic, send Dee a message, or hit him up on X.

This week’s NLSC Top 10 Plays features it all: past, present, future, and both sim and arcade! Legends are doing their thing across an assortment of titles, but we’ve also got some current players putting on a show in NBA 2K26, as well as a future pairing linking up for an alley-oop thanks to a mod for NBA 2K16. The latest dazzling array of highlights come courtesy of ten different games from NBA Live 2000 all the way through to NBA The Run, which is always cool to see. It’s time to get fired up for another weekend on the virtual hardwood, so let’s get to the action!

What was your favourite highlight this week? Sound off in the comments below, and once again, get in on the fun by sending us your best plays! Remember, as long as it’s a basketball game, it’s eligible for the countdown. Also, don’t forget to subscribe to us on YouTube for more basketball gaming videos.

Get ready for more fantastic highlights from the basketball gaming community in the NLSC Top 10 Plays of the Week, curated by Dee! New and old games alike are featured in this celebration of spectacular moments on the virtual hardwood. To submit your clips, post them in this topic, send Dee a message, or hit him up on X.

The 2026 NBA season is now officially in the books, but ball never stops here at the NLSC! Our community loves hitting the virtual hardwood and blacktop in a variety of titles and in all sorts of ways, and that continues to be apparent in this week’s NLSC Top 10 Plays. The countdown begins and ends with some spectacular and ambitious highlights from WNBA players, and in between there are poster dunks, big blocks, and other breathtaking moves. Nine different basketball video games are featured this week, from NBA Live 2000 through to NBA 2K26. Let’s get to the action!

What was your favourite highlight this week? Sound off in the comments below, and once again, get in on the fun by sending us your best plays! Remember, as long as it’s a basketball game, it’s eligible for the countdown. Also, don’t forget to subscribe to us on YouTube for more basketball gaming videos.

Get ready for more fantastic highlights from the basketball gaming community in the NLSC Top 10 Plays of the Week, curated by Dee! New and old games alike are featured in this celebration of spectacular moments on the virtual hardwood. To submit your clips, post them in this topic, send Dee a message, or hit him up on X.

What can you expect from this week’s NLSC Top 10 Plays? Vicious poster dunks, of course. A big swat from Charles Barkley, and a crafty steal by Dwyane Wade. Not one, but two players lobbing the ball off the backboard to themselves for emphatic finishes. And finally, some clutch play to top everything off! With the prior gen and new gen versions of NBA 2K14 both on display, technically there are ten different games featured in this week’s countdown, ranging from NBA Hangtime through to NBA 2K25. In short, once again our Top 10 is all about variety. Let’s get to the action!

What was your favourite highlight this week? Sound off in the comments below, and once again, get in on the fun by sending us your best plays! Remember, as long as it’s a basketball game, it’s eligible for the countdown. Also, don’t forget to subscribe to us on YouTube for more basketball gaming videos.