NBA Live 2000


NBA Live 2000 is the 2000 installment of the NBA Live video games series. The cover features Tim Duncan of the San Antonio Spurs. The game was developed by EA Sports and released on October 31, 1999. Don Poier is the play-by-play announcer with Reggie Theus on color commentary. A release of the game for the Game Boy Color was planned, but cancelled. The game features Michael Jordan in his first official appearance in the series. The PC version of the game introduced EA's "Face in the Game" feature, allowing players to use custom facial photographs on created players. It was also the final NBA Live game released for Nintendo 64. NBA Live 2000 is followed by NBA Live 2001.

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Rob Smolka reviewed the PlayStation version of the game for Next Generation, rating it four stars out of five, and stated that "This is as good as a basketball game gets on PlayStation."
The game received "favorable" reviews on all platforms according to video game review aggregator GameRankings.
The editors of PC Gamer US nominated NBA Live 2000 for their 1999 "Best Sports Game" award, which ultimately went to High Heat Baseball 2000. They wrote that NBA Live 2000s "on-court play is the best in the business thanks to a major improvement of the computer AI, and the franchise mode is as much fun as the actual gameplay."
In the United States, NBA Live 2000s computer version alone sold 73,101 copies by April 2000.