- Unintentional Period Piece:
- Apart from the obvious 2000s obsession with bling and Conspicuous Consumption, the Ballers trilogy also captures a piece of the NBA's changing reaction to the streetball and hip hop culture. In between the first two games, the NBA, fearing that many star players' embrace of hip hop fashion was giving the game a less-than-respectable image, instituted a dress code for its athletes, requiring them to suit up for anything to do with the league. The street moves and fashion stayed in all three games, obviously, but looking at the cover art over time tells you how the marketing downplayed it to go along with the NBA guidelines, from Stephon Marbury's velour tracksuit and chain
◊ on the cover of the first game to business casual Chauncey Billups◊ on Phenom, and finally Dwight Howard in a full NBA uniform◊ for Chosen One, no different than if he was on the cover of NBA 2K. - Thanks to its release late in the 2007-08 season, Chosen One is the last official NBA game to feature the Seattle SuperSonics as a current team, coming out three days after the league approved the team's relocation to Oklahoma City as the Oklahoma City Thunder.
- Apart from the obvious 2000s obsession with bling and Conspicuous Consumption, the Ballers trilogy also captures a piece of the NBA's changing reaction to the streetball and hip hop culture. In between the first two games, the NBA, fearing that many star players' embrace of hip hop fashion was giving the game a less-than-respectable image, instituted a dress code for its athletes, requiring them to suit up for anything to do with the league. The street moves and fashion stayed in all three games, obviously, but looking at the cover art over time tells you how the marketing downplayed it to go along with the NBA guidelines, from Stephon Marbury's velour tracksuit and chain
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