NBA 2K20 players and developers are paying their respects to Kobe Bryant

Following the tragic passing of NBA legend Kobe Bryant on January 26, the NBA 2K20 team and fans of the sports franchise have started a series of in-game tributes to memorialize the famed Lakers player, who has been an important part of the video game franchise. Developer Visual Concepts and publisher 2K Sports updated NBA 2K20 to acknowledge Bryant's untimely death with a new splash screen across all platforms, commemorating the life of one of basketball's greatest shooting guards.

In NBA 2K20, players were greeted with an image dedicated to Kobe Bryant. The virtual open-world, Neighborhood, has also had its in-game billboards updated to feature the same image from the login screen.

NBA 2K20‘s players are finding their own way to pay tribute in-game as well. The neighborhood streets are packed with players donning Lakers gear and the team’s yellow and purple colors. There are also calls on social media for 2K to make a special Kobe Bryant jersey available in the Neighborhood for free so that everyone can show their support for the player that has impacted so many lives. If you need Buy NBA 2K20 MT, you can visit our site z2u.com.

Although NBA 2K20 doesn't currently have any official Kobe Bryant jerseys with which players can outfit their custom characters, some in the game's community are instead opting to wear jerseys bearing #2 in honor of Bryant's daughter, whose youth basketball career was just beginning. When trying to mentally tabulate the immense pain inflicted on the sporting world by this heartbreaking loss of life and youth, it becomes clear that the fatal crash that took Kobe Bryant's and eight other's lives will go down as one of the greatest tragedies in athletic history. It's only to be expected that gamers, developers, league players, and more are all coming out to pay homage to one of the NBA's greatest point guards of all time in whatever ways they can.

As far as NBA 2K is concerned, Bryant graced the cover of NBA 2K10 and NBA 2K17’s Legend Edition. It’s hard to surmise what Kobe Bryant meant to the sport of basketball. Anyone who was a fan of the game recognized his passion, work ethic, dedication and skill. Even if you never watched a single game of basketball in your life, you’ve probably at least heard the name before — probably when tossing a crumpled up piece of paper into a trash can.