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No Chill with Gilbert Arenas

Episode 193 - Gilbert Arenas & Ronnie2k Talk HISTORIC 2k Teams

No Chill with Gilbert Arenas

Fubo Sports Network

Sports, Basketball

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Love him or hate him Ronnie2k stops by the studio to talk about his career path and how it may have started off differently than you think. We get to find out the nitty gritty as to how 2k ratings are assessed and which 2k teams are the greatest of all time. Stream for free on Hisense Smart TVs, LG Channels, Sports on Tubi, Plex, Samsung TV Plus, The Roku Channel, Vizio Channels, fubosportsnetwork.com, fubo Sports on YouTube, and XUMO or as part of fuboTV’s subscription packages of 100+ sports, news and entertainment channels. Go to rocketmoney.com/nochill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to No Chill. We'll be over to Rita's. Our guest today parlayed his love of video games,

0:14.6

marketing, and social media to become the face of NBA 2K. Now you're the head of what lifestyle and

0:20.6

content marketing, working with Hooper's influencers, entertainers, everybody. It's really helped

0:26.0

keep the brand flowing and thriving and surviving. We got Ronnie Singh, but you'll know him better as

0:30.5

Ronnie 2K. We appreciate you pulling up. We appreciate you. We appreciate you. We appreciate you

0:34.1

getting to have a studio audience. We go to great. We have brought Drupal to our audience side.

0:42.4

We have to deal with Chris. So when people think about NBA 2K, they think about you obviously. So

0:48.3

how did you become the face of the NBA 2K franchise? Obviously, the way that we've built this

0:58.0

title is built on hundreds of people at our organization. This game has really just changed

1:05.2

what gaming and basketball really stands for. I'm a very small cog in that, but being a part

1:13.8

of shifting it from more than a basketball game to a cultural phenomenon. So a lot of things

1:21.4

that I work on these days are, as you mentioned, the interactions with celebs and influencers and

1:26.6

whatnot, but trying to figure out where the periphery of our audience lives, we've done a remarkable

1:32.6

job of hitting that ceiling of everybody that loves basketball and has a console, they probably play

1:39.6

2K. So work when we extend and work when we grow. The fashion, the music, I'm actually here in LA

1:48.4

partly to listen to some of the people that are building our soundtrack for this year's title.

1:54.5

So it's just a massive business. We have partners across the NBA. We have everybody who's

2:01.6

anyone playing our game. It's just become this thing that just means so much more than the small

2:08.4

video game. Me and Gil were talking about how he was on a cover all those years ago for the other

2:14.1

title and how much it's changed since then. That industry, the basketball video game industry has

2:20.1

changed so much since then. Yeah, I was telling them I was like, I had two brands, right? And

2:26.0

I played 2K. That's what we played because the features was better. It was just the game just

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