NBA Live 19's The One Career Mode Takes You Around The World

In NBA Live 19's The One career mode, you create your own player (male or female) who will eventually become a street ball legend. This mode serves as a hub to build your character through experience points and specific challenges, earn higher ratings and better skills, and unlock gear (via loot boxes). But it also has a cheeky story of how you become "The One" through what's called The Rise. Conceptually, it's similar to what was in last year's NBA Live 18; however, you'll be going worldwide in a new story and new game modes.

Basketball is a cross-cultural sport, and that's recognized during The One. You go on a globe-trotting endeavor that lets you choose where to go and ball up in the streets. The first choice you can make after the opening Drew League match was to visit the famous Tenement Court in the Philippines. It's a street court surrounded by a towering concrete housing project in the city of Taguig (within Metro Manila) where pros like Paul George and LeBron James visit when going on world tours. During your match as The One, you can hear the crowd cheer and shout in Tagalog as you post up against Brooke Lopez or try to cross up Maya Moore in a game of 21.

However, success is written into your destiny; if you lose a game in The One, you'll be able to simulate a winning scenario to move on in the story. The One doesn't try to pull off gripping drama found in Madden's Longshot story mode or go the route of a Spike Lee joint like NBA 2K, but it incorporates the more light-hearted aspects of basketball culture. Sure, it's serious business trying to make a name for yourself in a Drew League game, but when Joel Embiid is texting you a FaceTime-like video to congratulate you on wins (and you respond with emoji), the fun and loose nature of basketball shines through. Even media personalities like Max Kellerman and Stephen A. Smith from ESPN's First Take, Cassidy Hubbarth from NBA Tonight and SportsCenter, and Speedy Morman of Complex essentially narrate The One in seemingly real episodes of their actual shows.

In the video above, you can watch a match that takes place during The One in which cover athlete Joel Embiid challenges you to ball up on his personal court alongside NBA and WNBA stars. NBA Live 19 drops on September 7 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and a free demo will be available on August 24.

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