The Xbox 360 version has 50 achievements; no PS3 trophies are included.

Clark Kellogg joins the play by play team

Stat overlays are back

A Montage feature that looks like a TV broadcast makes an appearance this year – showing the best plays of the past few minutes.

ISO Dribble harkens back to NBA 2K7; there are many new moves as well.

All in all, NBA 2K9 sounds like it’s going to be solid as 2K8 was a brilliant game, for the most part. Will Live make up ground? We’ll see. 2K has Live on the brain it seems…so perhaps we're entering an era of real hoops competition?

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