NBA 2K Mobile is the latest mobile iteration of the NBA 2K Franchise, following the My NBA 2K series of card-battling games. Unlike those, you actually play basketball in this game, engaging in quick-fire basketball games, earning coins, making your team the best that you possibly can by adding rarer and better cards, and winning at all levels of league play. Read on for some tips and tricks for NBA 2K Mobile!
There are two main aspects to this game, which are the team-building aspect and actually playing the game. Playing the game has its own strategies and the controls can be hard to get used to compared to the console version or even other mobile basketball games. Luckily, after the tutorial, you can enable auto-play mode and grind your way through levels automatically. Auto-play is good for random grinding but playing manually is better for winning tough games once you master various on-court strategies.
You get specific energy to use in the drills, the leagues, and the season play. Leagues and season play are straightforward basketball, but drills have you complete various mini games, such as bench pressing or doing three-on-three drills. They can be easy to neglect when you’re focused on league play or season play, but they’ll only hurt your team’s stats if you forget them.
Team-building is at least half of the fun of the game. You can get new players from card packs, which can most commonly be earned after games as a reward. Be sure to watch an ad video in order to earn 5 new players instead of the 3 that you get without the video.
Even more card packs can be earned by spending coins – the more rare the packs are, the more coins they’ll cost. Coins can be purchased using in-app purchases, or they can be earned by completing items on The Checklist (option in the menu area). League Points act as a slightly more common currency and can be used to acquire new equipment and other goodies.
Most players begin with one star in rarity. If you want to upgrade a player to the next level of star rarity, load up all of their equipment slots and then hit the “upgrade” option to upgrade them. Some players can only be upgraded once, while some can be upgraded up to four times, up to a five-star tier.