With The Growth Of Esports, NBA 2K League is taking off. The NBA 2K League has announced a new process for tryouts in their next season NBA 2K22 MT. The next season will begin in 2021. The new format will include more than 35 Pro-Am tournaments that will be hosted and run by NBA 2K League teams. The winners will be highlighted in a League-hosted "NBA 2K League Draft Prospect Series" and the first-of-its-kind NBA 2K League Combine.


It's the next step of the league's explosive expansion that NBA 2K League Managing Director Brendan Donohue, described to me in a recent call as "transformational". The current season, which was the NBA 2K's third, saw a big jump in both the viewership and distribution of broadcasts. "Just taking a look at apples to apples just our broadcasts on Twitch are up by 70% from year to year."


Donohue outlines, "and then on top of that , we added a number of distributors throughout the world which included ESPN 2." Live games were broadcast on ESPN2, ESPN's digital platforms, Sportsnet in Canada and delayed on eGG Network in Southeast Asia and Loco in India which was the first time broadcasts of 2K League games on linear television.


In all, ESPN2 got 29 broadcasts during the season, and every NBA 2K League match on ESPN's platforms was broadcast live in the Caribbean, Latin America, Oceania and Sub-Saharan Africa. By combining Twitch viewers with the unique viewership on ESPN2 this season Buy NBA 2K MT, the NBA 2K League received at the very least one million unique viewers every time it was shown on ESPN2.