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Hooper Lab
Play your whole career

Build a player in Hooper Lab, then take him from draft night to the Hall of Fame. You play the big games yourself: drive, shoot and defend with a shot meter tied to his ratings.

Build a player
How it works
  • You play 8 of the 82 games a season (or 20, 41 or all 82 in Settings). The rest sim around how you played.
  • Hold SHOOT and let go in the green. Yellow is a fair look, red is a brick. Better ratings, bigger green.
  • Big enough (6'5" and up, or a real leaper)? Hold SHOOT close to the rim to dunk.
  • Real best-of-seven playoffs: play every game or just the big ones. The Finals are all yours. Then the Hall.
Your build
Your Baller
--OVR
Skin tone
His look

Hair, face and gear.

Next up
Saved on this device
Your careers

Settings
Game length

How much of each game you play yourself. The rest is simmed between your possessions. Starts with your next game.

Season length

How many of the 82 games you play yourself. The rest are simmed in between. Longer seasons pay less XP a game, so every length earns about the same in a season.

Controls
Sound

Controls (keyboard and controller buttons) are in the pause menu during a game.

The Lab
OVR

Hit + to power up a skill. Lock it in when you are done.

Your build

Who you got in Hooper Lab for each skill, and where it stands now.

Signature moves

Yours for good. With Sprint on, tap Move: a spin move when you attack the rim with him in front, a hesitation anywhere else. The Euro step goes on its own on a layup with him in your way.

Longevity training

Each level holds off the after-30 decline one more year.

Badges

Earned by doing it in games. Each level makes you better at it. Tap one to see exactly what it does.

B
Game grade
+0 XP
Up next on the calendar

Season 1
Calendar
0-0Record
Your gamesWinLoss
This season
Career
Offseason

Season 1 is in the books
Keep the career going

$4.99ONE TIME. YOURS FOR LIFE.
  • Every season of every career you build, played by hand
  • Every Play Your Career game: basketball now, baseball and football when they launch
  • The playoffs, the Finals and your Hall of Fame night
  • Your careers on the Play Your Career leaderboard

Career over

Season by season
Season 1
The league
0-0
Season 1
Season goals

Pick up to 3. Hit them by the end of the season, playoffs included, for XP. Missing one costs nothing. Wins, threes, playoffs and All-Star goals pay the moment you hit them. Hit all three for +50% on top.

Season 1
Awards night
Play Your Career leaders

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Replay
Posterized!
Any button skips
Court
US
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Q1 12:00
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THEM
You
0 PTS · 0 REB · 0 AST
C
Move
here
Paused

Quitting does not save this game. You will replay it from the tip.

Controls
Stick
Shoot
Pass
Move
Sprint
Upright layoutDrag to move. Tap one to size it.

Controls

Pick an action, then press the key or button you want for it.

Arrow keys always move too. Esc always pauses.

How to play

Your build · tap a row for what it does

When you play

In simmed games