Favorite Feature of NBA 2K16

While patiently waiting for the 2015 basketball season to start the easiest way to bridge this gap of time is to go out and get this years NBA 2K16 basketball game to fill up the time till the NBA season kicks off. Each year they enhance some of the features of the game which they did a lot with the my player mode. My favorite addition to the game from last years is in the GM mode. The following site shows some of the other NBA 2k16 9 new features along with the one I will address in this blog.

The GM mode where you choose one of the NBA teams to be under your control, you become the General Manager and are now in control of the business operations of the team. One of the cool new features that has been added this year is the option to relocate the team. I will go through the steps of this in hope of successful getting 16 of the owners to approve the application to move your team.

First was choosing a team, Sorry Milwaukee Buck fans, but I think your franchise needs to be moved. (not really but thought this would be one off the easier teams to move because of their recent lack of success). Than you need to decided where to move the team there are 60+ options in the United States along with 3 options in Canada. I think keeping this team in the Midwest will be important and decided on moving the team to Kansas City. They also give you the option of building the stadium in the downtown area or the Suburbs along with plus and minus to both of those areas, expected attendance and operation costs. The final decision was to move the Bucks to the Suburbs in Kansas City.

      The next decisions is whether to keep the team as the Bucks or re-brand the franchise. I choose to re-brand the franchise and call them the Kansas City Stingers, The re-branding process gives you the option to change the team name, colors, and symbol. This is what Kansas City Stingers look like.

This is THE BEEHIVE, created using NBA 2k16 Team Relocation tools

Next option is to create the arena for your team to play in this starts with Naming the arena and this is what ever you want it to be and also giving it a short name, THE BEEHIVE , Is the home of the Stingers. Next steps are choosing from the different types of seating in your arena, than design the court down to the color of every out of bounds line and the advertisements on the scorers table. You also get to place text on the Baselines, and have the ability to download images to be added on the court.

The next step is to create home and away jerseys for your team. Starting with the base of the jerseys design once you decide on this you move to the color scheme of your jerseys. Next you move to designing the stripes along the neck, arm, and waist line of the jerseys. You adjust the numbers and names on the jerseys to your desired size and placement on the jersey. The finally you can add logos to wherever you want on the jersey. The following are the customized home and away jerseys for the Stingers.

The last step before submitting your relocation offer to the league is to select facilities and upgrades for the future stadium with money that is currently available from your owner. This will be in areas of luxury seating, concessions, restaurants, parking, merchandise, seating, green initiatives, public transportation, amenities, and digital services. They each have different levels under each category, what you upgrade and what you cant upgrade can be very important to offer being passed by the other league owners. This leads into the last steps of the relocation process, you submit the offer to the league and wait as other teams vote on weather they want this to be approved if the believe this is a legitimate offer. You also have the opportunity prior and after the submission of the offer to hear from the other owners and where they stand on the issue. You will than find out if you team has been approved for relocation.

Michael Standley
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