--- title: Steph Curry's Skills Have Surpassed Technology of NBA 2K description: Since its debut in 1999, the annually-released NBA 2K video game series has become known as the most realistic basketball game available. canonical: https://time.com/4236235/steph-curry-skills-nba-2k/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-24T22:01:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:30:28.054Z og:title: Steph Curry's Skills Have Surpassed the Technology of Video Games og:description: He's too good to depict properly og:url: https://time.com/4236235/steph-curry-skills-nba-2k/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Steph Curry's Skills Have Surpassed the Technology of Video Games twitter:description: He's too good to depict properly twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Steph Curry's Skills Have Surpassed the Technology of Video Games > Sponsored content. 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However, therein lies the problem where [Steph Curry](http://time.com/4171053/stephen-curry-pregame-dribbling/) is concerned. **Read More:** [Stephen Curry Says He’s The Best Player In World](http://time.com/4159715/stephen-curry-says-hes-the-best-player-in-world/) The [Golden State Warriors guard](http://time.com/4168168/stephen-curry-burger-king-ad/) has gotten so good at [draining shots](http://time.com/4157445/stephen-curry-effect-explained-golden-state-warriors/) that historically have been statistically improbable that the _NBA 2K_ team hasn’t found a way to virtualize his skill set without compromising the realism of the game as a whole. “To be completely honest, we are still looking for ways to better translate his game into _NBA 2K_,” gameplay director [Mike Wang told _Forbes_](http://www.forbes.com/sites/bensin/2016/02/22/how-steph-curry-broke-the-way-basketball-video-games-are-being-built/#43a6ece14112). “He’s a ‘rule breaker’ when it comes to jump shooting …he becomes a problem in the video game world where we’ve been trying to train our gamers \[to know\] that certain types of shots should be rewarded versus others.” For now, players will just have to accept that they’ll never be as good as Steph, even in the video game world. “We’re going to have to invest even more time in future iterations to really let Steph be Steph in future versions of _NBA 2K,”_ Wang said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4236235/steph-curry-skills-nba-2k/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4236235/steph-curry-skills-nba-2k/"},"headline":"Steph Curry's Skills Have Surpassed the Technology of Video Games","datePublished":"2016-02-24T22:01:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:30:28.054Z","description":"Steph Curry with the shot, boy","url":"https://time.com/4236235/steph-curry-skills-nba-2k/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Basketball","Sports topic","Video Games","Technology","NBA","Golden State Warriors","Stephen Curry"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4236235/steph-curry-skills-nba-2k/","name":"Steph Curry's Skills Have Surpassed the Technology of Video Games"}}]}] ```