EA ships NBA Live 2002
Posted by @ 7:22 AM, EST
EA announced today it's shipping NBA LIVE 2002 for the PS2 and the PSOne.
Here’s a bit of the press release:

"We started with the goal of making NBA LIVE 2002 the complete basketball experience; from pregame to postgame and everything in-between," said producer Kevin Wilkinson. "Our focus was improving the gameplay and making the game so real that it feels like the player at home is actually perspiring underneath the hot arena lights. We added amazing pre-game locker room scenes, bench scenes, player interaction, in addition to new shooting and passing physics, over 50 dunks and a variety of new finishing moves close to the basket."

NBA LIVE 2002 possesses numerous new features that will keep players going from the preseason through the NBA Finals. Players can build their own dynasty, like the Lakers of the 1980's or the Bulls of the 1990's, in the all-new Franchise Mode. In Franchise Mode, players manage an NBA franchise for up to 10 years and run the teams day-to-day operations. Players can view scouting reports on rookies coming out of school and then draft them to replace retired players and outgoing free agents. Trades are another option, but the salary cap must be heeded or the trade will be rejected.
Franchise Mode allows players to take teams and make them uniquely theirs.