Draft Day Sports: Pro Basketball 2024

After watching the few YouTube content that exists to this game, I was hoping it might be a possible alternative for NBA 2K, also including the option that you can start at any point in NBA history. I refunded the game after 1 hour of playing time, when I realised that basically the most important point of a NBA Basketball Manager is completely broken. Positives + Community creates original team and player data including photos. Content is easy to download and update. + Generally a lot of customisation options, including things like salary cap, if it is possible to draft players right out of high school, etc. + Savegames from their previoius versions and from their NCAA game can be imported Negative - I tried 1-2 historical datasets. While the players seemed pretty accurate, those older seasons, don't include any pictures. Understandable, since it's a lot of work, but if that's the main reason for you to play the game it's good to be aware. I switched to current seasom. - The reason...

An improvement on prior version worth the pick up if you enjoy rebuilding, trade system could still use some work though but the historical mode allows you to play from any season and with the real world mod the game is even better.

It is an okay game but the contract "negotiations" are awful, constantly players are asking me for a 3 years extension when I cannot offer more than 2. Bad AI. Salaries are not well presented when signing players, let me see my salary cap while I am negotiating, show me similar players in the league and their salaries etc. Other aspects of this game are alright, but it is annoying to have to make 3 clicks to get back to my depth chart after every game, why can't I make it an easy screen to get to? Trading is also just terrible and you can only trade with one team at a time. In all I cannot recommend this game, it needs a lot of work.

While not perfect, there is nothing else that even comes close for a basketball management sim. If you're a basketball fan and a fan of sports sim games like OOTP, this will for sure be enjoyable for you.

Good game, install the Real World Mod mod for the best experience.