NBA 2K23 MyNBA Eras Details Announced: Redefine The History of the NBA

THE MAGIC VS BIRD ERA 

With the Magic Vs. Bird Era in MyNBA Eras, we’re starting in 1983. This gives you a full season to get your affairs in order and prepare for the ensuing 1984 offseason, where you can guide your team to try and draft the likes of Michael, Akeem, or any of the other star-studded members of the 1984 draft class.  

MyNBA Eras makes it easy to use your own or a community-created draft class if that’s what you’re into, but we’ll automatically supply our own 2K year-appropriate draft class so you can rewrite history the way you see fit. Did you miss out on Jordan in the ‘84 Draft?  No problem, a 7-foot Center out of Georgetown by the name of Patrick Ewing awaits you in the 1985 Draft.

THE JORDAN ERA 

The Jordan Era puts you right at the beginning of Michael’s dominant run with the Chicago Bulls in 1991, and features threats to Air Jordan’s legacy abound—the tail end of Isiah Thomas’ Bad Boys Pistons, Stockton and Malone, Hakeem’s Rockets, and Ewing’s Knicks. Could MJ have gone for more than a double three-peat? There is only one way to find out! 

THE KOBE ERA 

We'll be traveling back to 2002 for our third historic era. In the late 1990s, the Eastern Conference's reign of terror had come to an end, making room for a new crop of talented Western Conference teams, led by Tim Duncan and the Spurs, Kevin Garnett and the Timberwolves, and Dirk Nowitzki and the Mavericks.

However, no discussion of basketball in the 2000s would be complete without mentioning one star in particular: Kobe Bryant, aka the Black Mamba. Although Kobe won two more championships with the Purple and Gold and solidified his position as Michael Jordan's replacement following the early 2000s three-peat, Shaq's legacy as one of the league's most unstoppable players cannot be questioned.

Savvy basketball fans might start to notice a pattern in the Eras—they always feature a fun and interesting roster to start with, and always have some notable players in the upcoming draft to be excited about. With one of the greatest NBA draft classes of all time, you’ll be negotiating hard-to-trade-for-picks to get the draft rights to: 

LeBron James 

Dwyane Wade 

Carmelo Anthony 

Chris Bosh 

COURTS 

One of the first things you’ll notice when jumping into Eras gameplay is that every team has a floor that’s accurate to the Era year. We’ve spent a ton of time going over game footage, trying to make sure we get the details right so that when you play as the San Diego Clippers, it really does feel like a slice of history comes to life. 

The fact that we went to all of our partner sponsors and collaborated with them to obtain the ACTUAL logos and brand markings they used in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s is one particularly immersive feature you'll notice in Eras stadiums. Although it seems insignificant, when you are in the moment, it actually enhances the genuineness of the experience!

JERSEYS

We made an effort to collect as many uniforms for each team as we could, just like we did with the arena floors. You should see uniform changes at least once per Era, if not more frequently, because we started with a rather vast library thanks to the years of work put in by the MyTEAM team, and we did our best to match them up with each of the teams. We make care to have coordinating uniforms that fit the new city when a team moves.

PRESENTATION + COMMENTARY

One incredibly satisfying visual addition you will find in MyNBA Eras is something we put on display in last week’s reveal trailer for The Jordan Challenge. Our team here at Visual Concepts went and created an era-specific filter system that was intricately designed to recreate the television experience of watching these games as they were originally broadcast during the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s! 

You can now pre-order NBA 2K22 on various platform. For PC you can get it on steam NBA 2K23 Pre Order . For PS5 you can pre order now in Playstation Store. For Xbox Console you can pre order now at xbox site Xbox 2K23

Lining right up with what we expected based on recent years, the NBA 2K23 release date is now confirmed as Friday, September 9, 2022

Source: nba.2k