The six-member esports squad, which completes its first season Wednesday, is considered a valued extension of the organization.
Members of the Lakers Gaming team play against Kicks Gaming in the NBA 2K League Studio in Long Island, N.Y., on June 5. The six-member Lakerts esports squad completes its first season Wednesday.
Gates is the Lakers’ new point guard, but he’s not replacing Lonzo Ball. He’s a starter for Lakers Gaming, the franchise’s team in the NBA 2K League. Lakers Gaming shares more than a name with the 16-time NBA champions; the team also works out of the same 120,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art headquarters. The gamers each have keys to the facility and can come and go whenever they please, just like LeBron James.
“We have the NBA, the WNBA and the G League, and this is the fourth league in our family,” NBA commissioner Adam Silver says. “And that’s exactly as we’re treating it; one more professional league.” Players on good teams can potentially earn six figures because the league awards $1.2 million in prize money throughout the season — with $360,000 awarded to the league champion.
NBA 2K games are played five on a side — guards opposite guards, forwards opposite forwards, center facing center — with a big screen in the middle, and the action comes with chatter that sounds like what you might hear at a park or gymnasium during a hotly contested pickup game.On a recent day in El Segundo, Lakers Gaming gathered in its training room, which is nestled behind the NBA team’s media room.
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