Sorare, the Fantasy collectible card game in NFTs format, officially announced its partnership with the National Basketball Association (NBA) to launch collectible cards of the sport’s most important league.
Sorare, has made official its alliance with the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) to launch collectible cards in non-fungible token format as they have already done with many soccer teams around the world and also with Major League Baseball. MLB (Major League Baseball).
The announcement was made via the official Twitter feed of Sorare as the triple partnership between these companies to generate the first fantasy basketball game in NFT.
This signifies the NBA’s extension of its web3 adoption journey after partnering with other projects such as NBA TopShot.
SorareSorare, which has already licensed more than 250 soccer teams from the most important leagues in the world such as the Spanish League, Bundesliga, Italian Serie A, among many others, and 30 MLB teams, consists of making a user and collecting collectible cards in NFT to create a team with players that will have a performance score according to their real-life matches.
In addition, they have an internal market where you can buy and sell NFT cards. You can find the same player with different colors of cards, the colors determine the rarity of the collectible and the higher the rarity level, the less cards will be available.
For the fantasy soccer game, you have the possibility to assemble teams of 5 players, while for the MLB game the players are 7. Therefore, it is believed that for the NBA game it will be five players, since, that is the number in which it is played in real life.
Sorare’s NBA game platform will give fans the opportunity to interact directly with the league and also compete through Sorare’s fantasy gaming experience for its users. It has been officially announced that with this agreement, the fantasy gaming company will have the rights to use the official logos of the league, the NBA teams and all the players of all the teams that belong to the league.
It is scheduled for release in the fall of 2022, i.e. October of this year, which is when the new 2022-2023 NBA season will begin.
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The mechanism of the game will be as follows:
Collect officially licensed digital NFT cards of favorite NBA players.
Create lineups from the NFTs you have available and participate in different tournaments created within the platform.
In these tournaments, points can be earned based on players’ real-life performance.
Subsequently, players will gain XP when you make them participate in tournaments and become more powerful (increasing their market value).
You will be able to compete with other users from all over the world, since the NBA and Sorare have fans mostly in America, Europe and Asia.
Finally, the possibility of buying, selling and exchanging collectibles freely in its internal market.
In addition, along with the announcement of the new NBA fantasy gaming platform, Sorare announced that Blake Griffin and Rudy Gobert, two basketball legends, have signed on as official investors in the NFT collectible card game.
Blake Grifin is a six-time NBA All-Star and currently plays for the Brooklyn Nets. Rudy Gobert is a three-time Defensive Player of the Year winner and is playing for the Minnesota Timberwolves. Both have been announced as investors in Sorare, as they aim to be at the forefront of sports and technology.
These two players join world-renowned sports investors such as Kylian Mbappé, Gerard Piqué, and Antoine Griezmann.
Michael Meltzer, Sorare’s head of business development, confirmed that there will be differences from the rarity levels of NFTs found in the fantasy soccer and baseball platforms, but has not confirmed what the changes will be.
Furthermore, Meltzer, added that he views NFTs as a technology and not a marketplace, which is why he wants to differentiate himself from rival platform NBA Top Shot, which focuses on accumulating collectibles.He ended by saying that Sorare has a gaming focus, with interactive tournaments and that the success they have had to date will effectively extend to the NBA platform, as, it is unlike anything else on the market.
Finally, Adam Silver, NBA commissioner also spoke about the partnership with Sorare and said that this alliance will provide NBA fans with a new way to interact and get closer to the teams, but above all to the players, and concluded by saying that the NBA’s fantasy NFT platform will lead one of the most passionate sports in the United States to increase its popularity worldwide, expanding its market to different continents such as Asia and Europe.
Written by Rodrigo Catalan (TW: @RodrigoCatalanB) for NFT Express.