These NBA 2K athletes grew up together. Now they're teaming up with the Jazz

They'd go to college. They would come home. They had pop-in NBA 2K9 -- the 2009 variant of this NBA-based video game -- and could basketball online. Five-on-five virtual games. On the weekends, the same thing. Play all weekend. Rack up stats. Bucket after bucket. Sometimes they would work 9 to 5. Come home, log into NBA 2K and game. Again and again. Day daily.

It turned out to be a competitive time with hundreds of thousands competing online. Shaka, whose speech was"YoungSparks92," saw someone climbing the ranks with him. "YoungKobe3." Both New Yorkers were linked together then. Little did they know that nearly a decade after they'd be teammates, competing side by side to NBA 2K21 MT Coins the Utah Jazz in a professional league for NBA 2K players.

See, in the moment, it was all about rankings. They climbed up the ladder. Shaka had the bragging rights always ahead of Lotty. When Lotty found out the two NBA 2K stars grew up in the same area of Mount Vernon, New York. He knew he needed to fight him. 1 game to decide bragging rights for the town and 2K. They went to different high schools, so it wasn't like they could link up by themselves. But they had mutual friends, so the match was set up.

Shaka wanted the chance to Cheap MT 2K21 play with Lotty one on one. He always knew he was a better player than himeven though they were always neck-and-neck in the competitive rankings. He simply wanted the moment to prove it. They played with a hard-fought game. The game was close, but Shaka won by 10 or so.