The Brooklyn Nets are less than one month away from training camp as they seek to have a 2025-26 NBA season that the organization can be proud of. Brooklyn will be going into the season with five rookies that they selected in the 2025 NBA Draft and those players were able to experience something cool this summer when they scanned their faces for the NBA 2K26 video game.
“We’re about to do a scan for my face in 2k. I’ve always played 2k. I’ve known this game for a long time now, and being in it now, it’s something crazy,” Nets rookie Nolan Traore said prior to getting his face scanned for the NBA 2K system. As many NBA fans are familiar with, NBA 2K is the most popular basketball video game on the market at the moment and has been regarded as such for some time now.
According to Guinness World Records, NBA 2K15, which was released to reflect the 2014-15 season, was the first basketball video game to support user face scans as technology in general was entering a new era. Ultimately, Brooklyn’s rookies, who are mostly around 20 years old at this point in their careers, have been exposed to NBA 2K video games for virtually their entire lives, showing how synonymous the game is with basketball in general.
While the face-scanning part of being an NBA rookie is cool, what people usually pay attention to afterwards are the ratings of the respective players within the game. More to the point, Nets forward Michael Porter Jr. is the only player ranked in the top-100 of the game as he is given an 82 rating due to his ability to score the basketball at various levels on the floor.
Egor Demin, the eighth overall pick in the 2025 Draft, has a 72 rating, tying him with Toronto Raptors forward Collin Murray-Boyles for being the eighth-best player in the class for NBA 2K. What follows is that forward Danny Wolf has a 71 rating, guard Nolan Traore and forward Drake Powell have 70 ratings, and guard Ben Saraf has a 69 rating, placing him in the red.