To keep the high standards, Donohue also said that the league will expect their players to hold themselves to a high standard and that there will be guidelines to follow as the players aren’t representing themselves only, but also the league’s, NBA’s and 2K’s brand. Moreover, players should also be able to capitalize on their own as real-life athletes do. Another thing that will be explored is the possibility to share league and team’s sponsors to improve the product’s revenue and, ultimately, the status and the salary of the players. “It’s gonna be a competitive salary we’re gonna offer access to housing provided by their team and certainly the players will potentially have access to things like their NBA team facilities.” Donohue also added that they are exploring the possibility to have endorsements and exclusive items to be used by their virtual counterpart during the game nights. “That’s a thing we haven’t finalized yet,” 2K League Managing Director Donohue admitted. “On game nights, we’re actually going to fly the players into a central studio or two. Maybe we’ll have an East Coast studio and a West Coast studio, and maybe we’ll have one central studio where we’re gonna host all regular-season or tournament games.”Īnother thing that people is really interested in is players’ salaries. The league has serious plans for game nights as well. NBA teams have incredible facilities and support and so I would expect our athletes to be treated incredibly well.”
That’s one of the many things we’re bringing to the table. Your practice house in Sacramento, and the great thing about that is that you’ll have access to King’s facilities, or maybe you can have access to NBA facilities that the real NBA players using. “Let’s say that you’re drafted by Sacramento or by New York you would spend the week practicing with your team, playing in your in your gaming house. The league is certainly serious about the different aspects of being a 2K athlete, as described by Donohue while discussing the potential day of a player of the new 2K league. It will be a combination of regular season games and tournaments and certainly we’re going to have the playoffs the last two weeks. Some of the details are still a bit on TBD, as we’re still on discussion, but one thing I can tell you though is the season will start in May, and will run through August, roughly the third week of August. “We’ll have 17 teams, and we’ll have 16 playoffs like in the real NBA. “There will be avatars that player will be controlling, as every player will bring their player, there won’t be stuff like LeBron vs Steph going on.”ĭonohue also shared some information on the league’s structure.
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“Players should be going hard in My Career or My Player to upgrade their attributes and get them up to a certain level.” A good effort will be done to give players a level playing field. According to Donohue, players need to really work hard on their game.