All 15 games of NBA 2K23’s new Jordan Challenge
NBA 2K23 will bring back the series’ celebration of Michael Jordan’s greatest feats with The Jordan Challenge, adding five more games to the original set of 10 that NBA 2K11 offered 12 years ago.
“This was a passion project for me,” said executive producer Erick Boenisch, a 20-year veteran of Visual Concepts who has worked on all but three games in the series. “I wanted this to be head and shoulders above NBA2K11’s Jordan Challenge in every way possible.”
Boenisch and gameplay director Mike Wang leaned hard into the history and context of each moment in Jordan’s career, in hopes of making it come alive for a new generation of basketball fans who may have never seen him play.
The Jordan Challenge will be available in all versions of NBA 2K23 — Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X — when it launches Sept. 8. Here are the 15 moments of NBA 2K23’s new Jordan Challenge, and the deeper meaning inside each of them.
March 29, 1982. Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans.
“Mike Jordan” was just the fourth freshman in North Carolina basketball history to start in his first game for the Tar Heels. The 6-6 swingman from Wilmington Laney High School cracked a Tar Heel lineup that included future Hall of Famer James Worthy and three-time all-American Sam Perkins. In the 1982 NCAA final against Patrick Ewing and Georgetown, Jordan buried an 18-foot jumper with 15 seconds left to give UNC a 63-62 lead and Dean Smith his first national championship, after six Final Four appearances. Jordan’s No. 23 is one of seven numbers fully retired from service at Chapel Hill.
July 9, 1984. Hoosier Dome, Indianapolis.
The United States’ men’s national basketball team opened Indiana’s brand-new Hoosier Dome
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