
Because licensing and likeness rights make remakes and re-releases highly unlikely when it comes to hoops games, anyone who wants to own a legal copy of these rarities will have to search high and low, and pay a hefty price. There are some rare titles that don’t come cheap, and among them, you’ll find a few basketball games. This week’s Five lists five of the most expensive basketball games that collectors can buy.įor the serious collector, retro video games can be an expensive hobby. The feature is presented as either a list of five items, or in the form of a Top 5 countdown. They’ve also been a catalyst for diving deep into player histories, and thus school histories they’ve been a reminder of players and teams and eras I forgot, or only knew so much about in the first place.Welcome to this week’s edition of The Friday Five! The Friday Five is a feature that I post every Friday in which I give my thoughts on a topic that’s related to NBA Live, NBA 2K, and other basketball video games, as well as the real NBA, and other areas of interest to our community. In our never-ending quest to keep things interesting around here (without the NCAA Tournament, yes, but also now just as part of the offseason routine), we’ve not only been doing greatest teams lists and uniforms rankings, but also lots of historical mock drafts, a bunch of which I’ve participated in. Rarely, if ever, have I spent as much time poring over college basketball’s past than in the past two months. Curious as to what you would consider the best era of college basketball? There’s a lot that goes into that question - number of players that had success later in the pros, number of quality college players, great NCAA Tournaments, deep conferences, successful coaches and perhaps even parity across the country. Let’s get to it! This one is just for fun, but with “The Last Dance” airing, it has brought about a big discussion on what was the best era of NBA basketball. Welcome, The Athletic college hoops readers one and all, to another Saturday mailbag! Huzzah! You all submitted a healthy number of questions, and - despite my propensity to spend a long time, and too many words, answering individual questions - I’m going to try to get to as many your queries as I possibly can without collapsing onto my keyboard and/or running out of time before my small quarantined children wake up from their respective naps.
