If ever a sport was made for these strange times, e-sports and NBA 2K League is it.
When the Timberwolves’ 2K affiliate T-Wolves Gaming won the league title last summer, it did so in front of a foghorn-blowing, cowbell-banging live audience at a New York City-area television studio.
Their 2020 season, scheduled to start last week, has been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic like every other North American pro sports league while those playing were suspended. But games go on, with isolated competitors separated by hundreds of miles, not by 6 mere social-distancing feet.
T-Wolves Gaming split into two three-player teams and competed for $25,000 in a “NBA 2K Three for All Showdown” 3-on-3 online competition.