The new age battle for eSports audiences and revenues between the world’s top professional leagues took a giant step forward this month with the launch of the NBA’s own eSports league.
The first NBA 2K League games featuring top basketball gamers playing as their own user-created avatars started on the first of May, in the first official eSports league operated by a US professional sport.
Less than six months after the plan was announced officially in December last year, seventeen of the NBA’s own 30 real basketball franchises now have…
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