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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.

NBA 2K27 is out now via Early Access, and as such, it’s making its first appearance in the NLSC Top 10 Plays thanks to a wild lob to Clyde Drexler! Plenty of other basketball games remain in the community’s rotations however, as we actually have ten different titles in the countdown this week. Not only that, but there’s a great assortment of plays including a no-look alley-oop in College Hoops 2K8, a fancy finish with finesse in NBA Live 15, trick shots in NBA Jam: On Fire Edition, and of course, rim-rocking poster dunks in multiple games. 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.

NBA 2K27 will be available next week via Early Access for gamers who pre-ordered the special editions, so we should be seeing some highlights from it in the NLSC Top 10 Plays very soon! In the meantime however, people are still playing NBA 2K26, along with a selection of all-time classics and personal old favourites. To that end, there are nine different games in the countdown this week, from NBA Live 2001 all the way through to NBA 2K26. Whether you’re looking forward to NBA 2K27 or you intend to keep retro basketball gaming, as always these highlights will fire you up to hit the virtual hardwood this weekend. 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 what we stand to lose – like tears in rain, to quote Roy Batty – with the continued push to end physical media.

As Dee and I discussed in Episode #638 of the NLSC Podcast, Sony has recently announced that the production of PlayStation game discs will end in January 2028, marking a shift to digital-only releases. To say that there’s been significant backlash to the announcement is to put it mildly! Also, despite what executives and shills may try to claim, the pushback isn’t just coming from grumpy old heads nostalgically clinging to an outdated medium. Gamers have brought the receipts, demonstrating that with many popular titles, physical and digital sales are still quite close in number.

There’s a reason for that, and it has nothing to do with being unable to grasp or adapt to modern trends and technology, as so many sneering shills will suggest. There are advantages and disadvantages to both physical media and digital releases, and thus reasons why we may prefer one over the other, or pick and choose the distribution method on a case-by-case basis. However, with moves like Sony’s decision to end disc releases for PlayStation games, and the decline in physical media in favour of streaming services, it’s building towards a troublingly anti-consumer future. And so, like tears in rain, some wonderful benefits of physical media are going to be lost.

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It’s time for another round-up of recent uploads to the NLSC YouTube channel! Since the last bulletin, Dee and I have been playing an assortment of games, including NBA The Run, which has produced plenty of highlights. I’m a little behind in uploading some of the videos I’ve had planned, but Dee has been consistently sharing some of our best virtual hardwood moments.

We’ve had a lot to say about NBA The Run before and after its release, and while we have our criticisms, it’s also produced several highlights. In addition to including some of the highlights in the NLSC Top 10 Plays of the Week, Dee has been showcasing the gameplay in both the beta and full versions of NBA The Run via a handful of reels.

Some of Dee’s other uploads include highlights from our four and five-player games of NBA Live 95 and NBA Live 96 for Super Nintendo, and four-player head-to-head showdowns in NBA Hangtime and NBA Jam: On Fire Edition, from our Sunday Parsec sessions with wiscard_rush, KidKash202, and KingKongFresh00. You can also find highlight reels from NBA 2K11 PS2, NBA Jam 2004, NBA Live 2000, NBA Live 09, NBA Live 10, and NBA Bounce.

As I mentioned, I’m overdue to share highlights from my solo basketball gaming sessions, but I did upload a preview of the work-in-progress ABA roster for NBA Live 06. It’s a project that I’m aiming to spend more time on during the offseason, with an eye to getting a release out as soon as possible. I also uploaded highlights from a makeshift classic teams showdown in NBA Live 10, featuring the 2006 Nets and Suns.

Catch up on all of the recent uploads below! As always, please subscribe to the NLSC YouTube channel if you haven’t already. In addition to gameplay highlights, there’s also the weekly Top 10 Plays, full episodes of the NLSC Podcast, and the occasional video essay or retrospective. Additionally, if you have any suggestions of games that you’d like to see us play, please let us know and we’ll try to get them into the rotation!

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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.

johnz1 has released a few fantastic projects for the PlayStation 3 version of NBA Jam: On Fire Edition at this point, but it all began with NBA Jam: Legends On Fire Edition back in 2023! Earlier this month, he released a huge update to that original project that’s been three years in the making. In case you missed it, NBA Jam: Legends On Fire Edition V2.0 is now available!

So, what’s new in V2.0? Teams from the 2020s have been added, including Spurs and Knicks squads that represent last season’s NBA Finals. A handful of teams were also removed to make way for the new ones that are now in higher demand. Several new players have been added to team rosters, including Bill Walton, Kyrie Irving, Jalen Brunson, Ralph Sampson, and Antoine Walker. Player faces have also been updated, along with jerseys and arenas. Ratings have also been re-evaluated, and Road Trip has been renamed “Franchise Takedown”, reflecting the revamp to the mode.

Please note that this release is essentially treated like a new game, so any save files created with previous versions of the mod unfortunately won’t work. The mod will run superbly on the RPCS3 PlayStation 3 emulator, but it can also be installed on jailbroken PS3s. Please also note that this mod won’t work with the Xbox 360 version of NBA Jam: On Fire Edition, and no release for the Xbox 360 is planned.

Full release notes for V2.0 of NBA Jam: Legends On Fire Edition can be found below. You can find the download link here in the release topic in our Forum, along with further previews and information on the project. Shout out as always to johnz1 for an incredible mod for an awesome game, and be sure to check out his website for all of his NBA Jam: On Fire Edition projects!

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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.

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.

80 years ago today, the NBA – then the Basketball Association of America – was founded at the Commodore Hotel in New York. Appropriately, this week’s NLSC Top 10 Plays contains many tributes to the history of the league! From the first Knicks-Spurs NBA Finals showdown in NBA Live 99, to Wemby swatting shots in NBA The Run, to Kobe’s clutch play in his eponymous era in NBA 2K25, the stars from yesterday and today are strutting their stuff across eight different basketball video games in our latest countdown. 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 the importance of injuries in basketball video games.

Just like any other sport or physical activity, injuries are an unfortunate inevitability in basketball. From hard collisions and rough landings, to dirty play and simple wear and tear, there’s a possibility of getting hurt. Injuries have altered the course of series, seasons, and entire careers. You could say that they’re one of the leading causes of What Ifs! To that end, because injuries have a significant impact on the NBA, it only makes sense that they’re part of basketball video games. I’m mostly referring to the simulation games, but there’s a place for them in arcade titles as well.

Sure, in the moment, you may not be exactly thrilled to see injuries occur. You don’t necessarily want to see your virtual players get hurt any more than you’d wish for the injury bug to bite your favourite teams and players in real life. There are undoubtedly times when you’d prefer not to suffer any injuries on the virtual hardwood, so you’ll switch them off in the gameplay settings accordingly. If they’re unavoidable – such as being a story beat in MyCAREER – they can be extremely frustrating. However, I can attest that injuries have actually enhanced a handful of my franchise and career mode games. As such, they’re conspicuous by their absence in titles that don’t feature them.

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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 is another demonstration of the artistry of the dunk, with players pulling all kinds of tricks out of their bags and putting each other on posters. Things also get a little cartoonish – dare I say looney – with the number one play in the countdown! There’s also a great play from a four-player co-op session of NBA Live 96 for Super Nintendo, another glimpse of high-flying action in NBA The Run, and some awesome mods and historical content 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.

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.

There’s definitely a street and arcade motif to this week’s NLSC Top 10 Plays! Not only are there a couple of highlights from the recent closed beta for NBA The Run, but NBA Jam: On Fire Edition, NBA Jam 2004, NBA Hangtime, and NBA Street. Vol. 2 are also in the countdown. The sim games are also taking it to the streets, as you’ll find Blacktop highlights from NBA 2K14 and NBA 2K26. On top of that, there’s a great lob from a game between the Spurs and Thunder in NBA 2K26, and a vicious poster in College Hoops 2K8. 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.

This is Wayback Wednesday, your midweek blast from the past! From retrospectives of basketball games and their interesting features, to republished articles and looking at NBA history through the lens of the virtual hardwood, Wednesdays at the NLSC are for going back in time. This week, I’m taking a look back at Stretch and the rest of the OG NBA Street ballers.

With a spiritual successor in NBA The Run set to launch next month, NBA Street has definitely been on our minds as of late. As it happens, next month also marks 25 years since the original NBA Street was released. For basketball gamers of a certain age, that first NBA Street was the arcade basketball video game, held in higher regard than any of the NBA Jam titles. It certainly makes sense as it was a tremendous game that still holds up. Furthermore, by the early 2000s, the NBA Jam name had sadly come to be associated with some subpar releases.

I’ll be diving deeper into that with a retrospective next month. For now though, I’m reminiscing about Stretch and the other OG NBA Street ballers. In addition to placing NBA players on the blacktop, NBA Street introduced us to some memorable original characters. These ballers were basically the bosses of the City Circuit, standing in between us and the next location. Once we beat them, we could benefit from their streetball skill as they joined our squad. Stretch and the rest of the OG NBA Street ballers are undoubtedly legends, so let’s take a look back…way back…

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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.

We’re tipping off Year 6 of the NLSC Top 10 Plays in style, as the community once again brought the goods in nine different basketball video games! Devastating poster dunks and other flashy jams, huge swats, a wild fling to beat the buzzer in NBA Hangtime, and another game-winning buzzer beater can be found in this week’s countdown. You’ll also see some mods being enjoyed, five-player online team play action in NBA Live 95 for Super Nintendo, and a couple of appearances by Dee Brown. 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.

As is often the case, this week’s NLSC Top 10 Plays is a fantastic mix of the old and the new. Not only are nine different games on display from NBA Live 10 through to the upcoming NBA The Run, but we’ve got updated rosters in older games, and all-time greats doing their thing in modern releases. It’s the Legends that ultimately have bragging rights this time around though, as Wizards Michael Jordan and Larry Bird demonstrate why they’re two of the best to ever step onto the hardwood, real or virtual. 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 #629 of the NLSC Podcast!

Last week, Play By Play Studios held a closed beta for NBA The Run, their upcoming arcade streetball game set for release in June 2026. Derek had the opportunity to take part in the closed beta, and so this week, he’s sharing his detailed hands-on impressions of the game, breaking down the key positives and negatives while also making some recommendations for how it could improve. We also read out the community’s thoughts on what they’ve seen of NBA The Run so far. While there’s definitely excitement for the game, not everyone has been impressed by the latest gameplay footage. We also once again touch on the importance of not letting hype get in the way of constructive feedback.

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