10 Best Basketball Video Games Of All Time

8. NBA 2K12

LeBron James, NBA 2K17
2K Sports

NBA 2K11 was dominated by Michael Jordan - more on that later - so in order to not let down the fans, who annually crave improvements, the 2011 version of the game introduced more legendary players such as Bill Russell, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Dominique Wilkins.

Apart from that, the gameplay was smoother and player models more realistic. NBA 2K12 wasn't a big revolution, but rather a notable step-up from the previous installment. Still, it deserves to be on this list for the way it handled legendary players - with appropriately enormous respect.

Contributor

I write sitting with my dogs on the sofa, which often leads to whole paragraphs being deleted by a single touch of a paw or a nose.