For fans of the style and arcade gameplay of the NBA Street series, developer Play by Play Studios may have a worthy successor in NBA The Run. The game is coming out on June 9 and its development just so happened to be overseen by Mike Young, an artist on the original NBA The Street series, according to a Game Informer report from October 2025.
Rather than leaning hard on the simulation aspects of a game like NBA 2K26, NBA The Run focuses on smaller, 3v3 basketball matches, and slightly more over-the-top action. Players will work their way through a four-round “Knockout Tournament” set on basketball courts around the world, before facing off in a boss battle of sorts in one of “four specially designated final courts.” The game offers three main modes, Knockout Squads (where you play one player in a team of three), Knockout Solos (where you play as a whole team) or Knockout Friends (where you can create custom private tournaments). You can play as either fictional characters or pick from a roster of over 30 real NBA players, like Steph Curry, Luka Dončić, Kevin Durant and Joel Embiid.
