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NBA All Worlds best players - Guide to handpick the absolute basketball legends

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NBA All Worlds best players - Guide to handpick the absolute basketball legends

Manage your squad of basketball aces in Niantic's latest game

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Following the reign of the commercial juggernaut that is Pokemon GO, the genius behind it - Niantic Labs - in collaboration with HypGames spearheaded the development of NBA All-Worlds armed with their revolutionary AR tech and a dash of sports enthusiasm. The game launched on January 24th. Just as its name suggests, it pays homage to the National Basketball Association and its cast of characters based on real-life basketball players.

Overview of the game

In this NBA All Worlds guide, we will show you the best players you can choose to have friendly basketball loop duels with the neighbourhood and emerge as the victor. In this game, you raise a team of NBA professionals. You can encounter basketball stars through a mode called Player Encounters. In All-Worlds, AW cash is your default currency to purchase gear upgrades (neat product placement marketing) that mainly come in the form of socks and sweatpants.

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Let us explain the litany of technicalities associated with this game. Along the way, you get to unlock some basketball players as you level up your rank, akin to Pokemon GO, and you can headhunt certain basketball legends by engaging them in a slam dunk stand-off. The players are further divided into three rarities, namely: Starter, All-Star, and All-Worlds. There is also a cap associated with each rarity's max stats.

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Defensive Stalwarts

As the saying goes, "The Best Defence is a Good Offence". Defence is mainly determined by the player’s ability to block or steal the basketball from the opposing player. It is also important to determine the stamina stat as it determines how resilient your player is. Ahem, in other words, they will be less of a pushover, making it easier to dazzle your opponents.

The consensus is that Drummond Andre is one of the starters with the most robust defence capabilities, best suited to successfully blocking and stealing the basketball from the opponent, which will come in handy to gate your opponent from scoring points, particularly in spots such as Tourney. Raising your starters should be your primary goal.

As players advance further, Jonathan Isaac (All-Star) should be the next focus, followed by the Greek player Giannis Antetokounmpo for the All-World category.

Sprite Icon Tier Player name Unlock condition
Starter

Andre Drummond 2
All-Star Jonathan Isaac 2
All-World Giannis Antetokounmpo 18

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Offensive Juggernaut

The next category would be offence prowess consisting of the following perimeters: mid-range shooting and dunk power, which are pivotal to scoring points as it's the condition for victory. This aspect takes a backseat as skills more than make up for mediocre offence because there is a ton of active play involved, where players are required to tap or swipe in the left-right direction to juke the opposing player and get a clear shot from the right angle. For starters, Lauri Markammend is particularly a good pick as his offence stats are solid all across.

Both Jaylen Brown and Ja Morant are outstanding shooters and possess superb offence capabilities in addition to great defence. Players should prioritise unlocking him once they reach mid-game. At the pinnacle, Lebron James lies in wait and is no doubt the definitive endgame goal to strive for, boasting impressive offence and defence stats on both sides and only accessible at a high level of twenty. However, Kawhi Leonard looms over Lebron as he has arguably one of the highest stats as a player, with the added boon of a lower entry point at level fifteen. At a lower option of level eleven, players are also granted access to Damian Lillard whose maxed-out stats rival LeBron James.

Sprite Icon Tier Player name Unlock condition
Starter

Lauri Markammend 2
All-Star Ja Morant 3

All-Star Jaylen Brown 4
All-World Damian Liliard

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All-World Kahwi Leonard

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