With the recent suspension of the NBA season there hasn’t been much basketball to watch for the fans of the NBA or sports in general. The solution to this problem has been making more sports virtual in a way for athletes to participate from home and for the fans to watch while at home.

The NBA took to the video game version of the league 2K20, a basketball game that is for the NBA. The owner of this game decided to have a player only tournament that involved 16 of the leagues players. Each player was able to choose 8 teams and they can only use each team once making it essential to pick the best teams, while picking when to use each team smartly. This tournament has been showed on ESPN to the public in substitution of real NBA games. The winner of this tournament would win $100,00 that would be donated to a coronavirus related charity. Having this tournament on ESPN has really helped fans be able to just watch something sports related on tv.

Personally, it has been hard to not be able to watch any sports missing the speculation of trades, close games, and playoff implications. This tournament has given me something to get into that was sports related for the time being. I don’t see this becoming a regular thing for the NBA to do, but I really could see them using 2K more often in the future to gain more attention from the fans around the league.

The coverage this little video game tournament has gotten on social media and ESPN is just about the same amount of coverage a normal NBA game would get. I think this was a great idea from the NBA, I really appreciate them trying to give fans something to follow that was related to the NBA season.