LEONARD VS GIANNIS NBA 2K BLACKTOP 2024

This is Video Game Week for SB Nation, and I’ve been racking my brain for some important sports games to me. I couldn’t think of one. There are a ton of video games that are super important to me, but as far as any licensed major league games go, I haven’t really felt that.
Then, I realized, any time that I go home to my parents’ house, I play arguably the most important game of my lifetime.
My brother and I have spent more hours playing NBA 2K’s Blacktop mode than we have any other game. While 2K’s blacktop is a fairly standard game mode by now - nothing too remarkable - we’ve made it our own.