How do you become a starter in NBA 2K21 My Career?

MyCAREER is a game mode and also the campaign mode of the NBA 2K series. It follows you creating a MyPLAYER that embarks a journey to the NBA starting from playing in high school. From there you can choose to go to college or play in the G League.

Contents

• 1 MyPLAYER
• 2 Upgrading your MyPLAYER
  • 2.1 Attribute Upgrades
• 3 Badges
• 4 MyCOURT
• 5 Endorsements
• 6 Phone
  • 6.1 Text Messaging
  • 6.2 Social Media

MyPLAYER

Before you start your journey as an NBA prospect, you’ll need to create a MyPLAYER in MyCAREER. MyCAREER is an all-encompassing, immersive game mode that places you in the shoes of an aspiring NBA prospect, aka your MyPLAYER, that you control down to the smallest detail. Choosing to create a player that resembles your likeness or craft an entirely new identity is up to you, but it’s just the first of the many choices you’ll need to make when building your ideal athlete. There’s a lot that goes into creating the next face of the NBA, and it might feel overwhelming if you don’t know where to start. It’s tempting to create a well-rounded player, but balancing attribute points won’t result in a Bonafide specialist who commands the court without any weaknesses.

Upon starting a new MyCAREER campaign, you’ll begin by choosing a name, position, handedness, and jersey number for your star-in-the-making. Shaping a player that resembles your likeness with detailed facial features or hair color is your call, but these minute features won’t affect your archetype. Next, it’s time to specify your body settings: height, weight, wingspan, and body shape—which will meaningfully impact your abilities. All of these physical attributes factor into how your player will move and feel on the court, so as fun as it might be to create a 7’3”, 290-pound center, consider making a player you’ll enjoy competing with.

As you tweak and tinker with your player’s dimensions, you’ll notice their attribute points fluctuate on the right side of your screen. Don’t worry too much about the points while determining your size and weight, but be cognizant of them. Having a longer wingspan will improve rebounding and defense, but it’ll also negatively impact your shooting capabilities.

Once you’ve put a face and name to your future all-star, it’s time to build out their attributes and clearly define your MyPLAYER’s role. Each position in NBA 2K22 has its own set of strengths and weaknesses. For example, smaller players such as point guards and shooting guards are going to naturally be a little quicker and faster than the bigs. However, you’ll need to distribute points wisely to fine-tune your MyPLAYER’s skill set. Overall, there are a multitude of archetypes and combinations, but you won’t know yours until you’ve finished adding points to key attribute rows. Let’s break down some of the notable archetypes for each position and what that'll mean for your MyPLAYER’s skill set.

In recent years, badges have played a bigger role in differentiating players from one another. Essentially, badges are skill boosts you can pick and choose from when building your MyPLAYER. Each badge has a Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Hall of Fame tier system, further improving various skills. The badges are broken down into four categories: Finishing, Shooting, Playmaking, and Defense/Rebounds, and which ones are available to you will vary based on your MyPLAYER's position and build. Badges have prerequisites in order for you to unlock them, meaning your MyPLAYER needs to have a specific rating to qualify. For example, if you’re a three-point specialist interested in selecting the Catch and Shoot badge, you’ll need to have a three-point base rating of 66 to add it to your arsenal. When applying your attribute points, it’s crucial that you monitor the badge window on the right side of your screen to see which icons illuminate, so you’ll know what badges are available to you. Edit and experiment with Badge Loadouts to save specific builds for your MyPLAYER. Overall, there are a plethora of badges and over time you’ll accumulate more simply by playing games and improving your rating.

To put the finishing touches on your MyPLAYER, select two Takeovers that you think will elevate the way your player impacts the game. During games, your Takeover meter will fill based on your performance; once it’s full, you can activate your primary or secondary Takeover. When you’re locked in on offense or defense, the Takeover perk gives you a boost in a category of your choice, making it even harder for defenses to stop you or for other players to get by you.

After completion, you can test your build and even edit your build if your MyPLAYER isn’t exactly what you had in mind. Just remember that becoming a superstar isn’t an overnight project; it takes dedication and effort to increase your MyPLAYER’s rating, so don’t get discouraged if you’re not hitting step-back threes the first time you step on the court.

Upgrading your MyPLAYER

Attribute Upgrades

The attribute upgrade screen

Badges

You can read more about badges by clicking here.

MyCOURT

In MyCAREER, MyPlayers own a MyCOURT. You can customize it, adding things such as custom backboards, courts, balls and even a wall mural. Your Player of the Game, Week, Month and Year awards hang on the wall, above your trophies on shelves, which hang above your shoe collection. You can invite anybody to hang out with you on your MyCOURT. You can also play drills with NBA players in order to fill up your Doin' Work meter. It was possible in NBA 2K17 to change the location of your MyCOURT, however it was removed later on. In NBA 2K22 there was a glitch to unlock the MyCOURT suite before the reaching Level 40 3 times requireent, but for those that did the glitch early on in the game caused for it to be reverted to the standard court and unable to customize their myCOURT.

MyCOURT started off as a warehouse, then penthouse loft in The Neighborhood]], thirdly as a beachside condo in 2K Beach before being ultimately replaced by the Gatorade Courts in The City.

Endorsements

Endorsement Overview

Phone

Text Messaging

Phone Layout

You can get in contact with people through your phone in MyCAREER. You can use this text messaging to communicate with your GM, coach, agent, other players, and even your girlfriend. You also use the messaging system to create your schedule. Overlapping your schedule causes you to miss meetings, which brings down your reputation and causes you to miss out on rewards. Missing meetings with your GM, coach or assistant coach can even bring down your playing minutes.

Social Media

Social Media Feed

There is also a feature in MyCAREER that allows the player to view social media, which is a similar version of Twitter. The player is met with messages such as fans calling the player out for not playing defense correctly, fans reacting to highlight plays such as dunks or deep threes, fans complimenting the player for a number of points they got, or even people rooting for you as MVP.

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