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Stephen Curry Is Unfair in NBA 2K17

Zaza Pachulia won the jump ball against Joakim Noah and the NBA 2K17 demo was underway. Stephen Curry calmly dribbled the ball past the halfcourt line and stopped on the left part of the Knicks logo, a solid 40 feet from the bucket. I was controlling Derrick Rose, the CPU had Curry. From 40-plus feet, the two-time MVP pulled up, off a stationary dribble and wetted that thing. It looked like a layup for the CPU. It looked like real life for me.

Just moments before, NBA 2K Senior Producer Rob Jones told me, “Our digital guys need to look, play, feel like their counterparts. One of the things that we started to talk about this year is how do we differentiate players who are better than other players?”

Not too much in the way of new information, but more impressions.