篮球英文堂 第268期:NBA巨星改行做游戏主播?(2)（在线收听）

Even if the stakes of such a tournament are mere bragging rights,

尽管这次比赛的输赢无足轻重，

the idea of live competition featuring professional athletes will be a welcome change of pace in light of recent events.

但从近况来看，由职业运动员参加游戏直播比赛不失为一个不错的主意。

Fans are starved for something resembling professional sports after missing them for several weeks, and if nothing else,

球迷们在错过了几周的比赛之后，特别期待职业体育比赛之类的活动。不出意外的话，

this tournament will feature some of their favorite athletes competing against one another at the highest level possible at the moment.

一些人气最旺的运动员将在这场最高级别的比赛殿堂里竞争属于2020年特殊的“奥布莱恩杯”。

From a social distancing perspective, it's hard to ask for much better.

从当下都要进行隔离的情况来看，很难有更好的选择了。

NBA 2K is a series of high resolution basketball sports simulation video games developed and released annually since 1999.

NBA2K是自1999年以来，每年开发并发行的一系列高分辨率篮球运动模拟视频游戏。

The premise of each game in the series is to emulate the sport of basketball, more specifically,

该系列的每款游戏的前提是模仿篮球运动，更确切地说是美职篮，

the National Basketball Association, and present improvements over the previous installments.

并在前几部作品的基础上进行了改进。

The series was originally published by Sega Sports, and is now published by 2K Sports.

该系列最初由世嘉体育发行，现在由2K体育出版。

All of the games in the franchise have been developed by Visual Concepts.

该系列中的所有游戏都是由视觉概念公司开发的。

The series consists of eighteen main installments and several spinoff-style titles.

该系列包括十八个主要部分和几个派生风格的标题。

It has seen released on eighteen different platforms. The NBA 2K series has also been used in eSports.

它已在十八个不同平台上发布。NBA2K系列也被应用于电子竞技领域。