With the not-all-that-surprising news that cover athlete LeBron James will be curating the soundtrack for NBA 2K14 in addition to providing—we presume—actual basketball insight or content, it seems like a good time to talk about the songs that would ACTUALLY be good in a basketball game. I mean, good for LeBron and all, but I have a hearty skepticism about how much he's picking these songs and how much all of the various companies...

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With 2K Sports announcing that NBA 2K14 will bring 14 Euroleague teams in for Exhibition and Online play, it seems like a good time to consult my favorite man abroad, Noam Schiller, for some lowdown on the the teams included (which, in case you haven’t seen, are listed in this Yahoo! Sports article).

Schiller, who lives in Israel and covers the NBA and Israeli league for Hardwood Paroxysm (a site I also write...

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In spite of everyone’s kind of wishy-washy feelings about the 2013 NBA Draft, the event itself provided certainly didn’t lack for surprise and intrigue. There might not have been any clearly transformative players on the board last night, but that might actually have fueled the topsy-turvy way things went. Anthony Bennett went first to the Cavaliers, which almost no analysts were predicting, and several big trades went down. The...

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It's a big week with E3 going down and, naturally, the first reveals of next gen basketball titles. Let's start with NBA Live 14:


This certainly looks very cinematic, which you can take as either a good thing or a...

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With the Conference Finals under way, it's a good time to look at the teams who just got knocked out of the Playoffs and see what lies ahead for them, both in real life and in NBA 2K13. We'll start with the Western Conference's ousted teams, the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Golden State Warriors.

OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER
The Good News: The Oklahoma City Thunder have their flaws—for sure—but their flameout in...

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