In NBA 2K23, MyNBA Eras Lets You Change Basketball History

gamespot.com:

A common complaint from those who play pretty much any annual sports sim is that the seasons-long mode is consistently left behind in favor of more microtransaction-heavy modes. You'd be hard-pressed to make such a claim for NBA 2K23's MyNBA mode. Like it's doing with the return of The Jordan Challenge, the team at Visual Concepts is hoping to execute on something that not only looks really exciting, but seemingly has no equal in the sports sim world.

MyNBA Eras gives players total control over the NBA across four decades of basketball, and the freedom to alter the sport's history and create their own alternate universes full of stars in new jerseys, never-before-seen rivalries, and wholly new dynasties that our world never saw.

While MyNBA is a mode fans of the series have come to expect in the game every year, MyNBA Eras adds a brand-new wrinkle to the mode that players probably didn't see coming. In it, you can start a franchise in one of four crucial years in NBA history: 1983, 1992, 2002, or the present day. While the mode will play much like you'd expect if you begin in 2022, choosing one of the other three eras is meant to be the real draw of this year's game.

These years weren't picked at random. They each represent a season immediately preceding NBA drafts that forever changed the sport. In 1983, you'll start a year before Michael Jordan was drafted. In 1992, you'll tip off one season before Shaq arrives to forever change how bigs play in the league. In 2002, you'll begin just before recent and modern stars such as LeBron James and Dwayne Wade made their debuts. The studio is calling these the Magic vs. Bird Era, the Jordan Era, and the Kobe Era, respectively.

In each case, you'll play out the season before one