Former NBA guard Delonte West will return to the NBA 2K online game sequence in NBA 2K27, marking his first look within the franchise since NBA 2K14.
2K has reached out to West about including him to the upcoming recreation. The corporate is anticipated to contact him subsequent yr to rearrange direct deposit and royalty funds linked to his look.
The reported return would give West a spot within the recreation for the primary time in additional than a decade. His final look got here through the NBA 2K14 period, whereas his NBA profession ended after the 2011-12 season.
West performed eight NBA seasons for the Boston Celtics, Seattle SuperSonics, Cleveland Cavaliers and Dallas Mavericks. He appeared in 432 regular-season video games, making 258 begins, and averaged 9.7 factors, 2.9 rebounds and three.6 assists in 27.4 minutes per recreation.
The guard’s best NBA season got here in 2006-07 with Boston, when he averaged 12.2 factors, 3.0 rebounds and 4.4 assists whereas capturing 42.7% from the sphere and 36.5% from three-point vary. He later grew to become an necessary rotation participant for Cleveland alongside LeBron James.
West’s finest three-point capturing season got here in 2008-09, when he shot 39.9% from past the arc whereas averaging 11.7 factors, 3.2 rebounds and three.5 assists in 64 video games. He additionally averaged 1.5 steals that season.
His return to NBA 2K comes as West makes an attempt to ascertain a brand new profession as a content material creator. Fashionable streamer N3on lately gave West $50,000 and supplied him with an entire streaming setup, together with an iPhone, skilled microphones, tripods and moveable charging gear.
Throughout an August 23 livestream, N3on additionally helped West set up a verified and monetized Kick account below his identify. The streamer reportedly helped West safe a $100,000 cope with Kick as a part of an effort to supply him with a extra sustainable supply of revenue.
West has beforehand handled intervals of homelessness and habit, making his present efforts to rebuild his profession a big a part of his current public profile.
