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New NBA 2K Esports League Gets Commitments From 17 Teams

Seventeen NBA franchises have committed to fielding teams in the inaugural NBA 2K esports league set to launch in '18. Teams were asked to pay a buy-in fee in the low six figures to join the league, a joint venture of the NBA and Take Two Interactive, which publishes the 2K series. Teams will be operators, not owners. Brendan Donohue, the league’s newly named Managing Dir, said, “We were hoping for half the teams to jump on board, and we got more than that. There are still a lot of teams very interested in joining in upcoming years." There are notable absences at launch, including the Rockets, who in December named Sebastian Park the league’s first Dir of Esports Development, and both L.A. teams. L.A. is an epicenter of the esports industry in North America.

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