 Welcome back agent nation, my name, of course. Y'all know me now. It's agent beam star. Let's get Into the news. There's a lot of news, you know 2k19s around the corner So the news is kind of ramping up. I don't know that I'm gonna continue these after 19 drops. There's not gonna be much news We'll see how things go though for our first story of the day. NBA 2k League was dropping some bombs We know for the first season, I believe they had 17 teams for the second season Though there's four teams in the NBA that want to buy in those include the Lakers the Hawks the Nets and the Timberwolves now for the First season the 17 teams had a three-year $750,000 buy-in. We don't know the details. We don't know the team names what the buying is for these We don't know nothing yet. We just know that these four organizations are gonna be joining the 2k League next year So we know actually what we do That's a little bit of information now You won't believe this because it sounds so unbelievable and I hope they end up changing this because it sounds ridiculous The Hawks organizations team name is gonna be Atlanta Hawks Talon gaming club You don't think that's too many syllables Who's gonna remember that who is gonna remember all of that For our second story of the day There's some drama in the Twitter verse ladies and gentlemen NBA players are furious well one in specific So we know if you guys have been paying attention NBA 2k has been dropping ratings the last few weeks, right? They dropped Jason Tatum's rating gave him a 87 universally unless you're a Boston fan And even if you're a Boston fan chances are you agree? That's way too high at some point in the season Maybe by the end of season he might reach an 87 he shows a lot of promise the ceiling is really high for the individual But he's not a 87 yet. Okay, so that's that's at the root of this they released Blake Griffin's details and his overall yesterday and I'll just put it like this people weren't really happy Blake Griffin has a 86 overall Immediately people began comparing regular season stats putting out graphics like this one showing Tatum's regular season stats Whereas Blake Griffin's regular season stats and it has a teammate of Blake Griffin's pissed off Reggie Bullock put out a tweet saying I'm glad I don't even play games. I don't even know who Ronnie 2k is well Bullock Ronnie's not the one who does the ratings. You probably should have sent the ad at a different direction. Mr. Stoff Stoff He's the one who usually does the ratings usually he's on point with the shits I don't know what he's been up to this year, but he's bugging and this is probably that the angriest I've seen people about ratings ever now I know ratings are gonna change over the course of the season But yeah, if you think Tatum should be over Blake Griffin my guy You are bugging and that's what the rest of the internet agrees unanimously as well for our next story of the day There's some drama between NBA 2k youtubers annoying versus nay now annoying was on stream And he was kind of just talking he was basically saying that he helped make clout up some individuals in Nades clan Now I don't really pay attention to this stuff most of the time But usually when something like this drops people send me a lot of Twitter's and they're like the listen agent This was happening. So This let's just roll the clip. All right, I just seen a video on Twitter this dude annoying saying that I Didn't make anyone that He made everybody that he made saver. He made quill. He made cash out. He made drowsy My nigga, you ain't do shit You lucky I put you in this position that you're in you lucky. I'm banned on Twitch Why is he talking about my name? Keep my name out your mouth You ran off to the ps4 to go make some money. You don't care about the fans nigga You don't care about us nigga You you you you was always a fan of me nigga. You was now you want to hate on me nigga Just watch on 2k 19. Just watch Just watch you ain't make anything dog. Are you care about your little money? You don't care about the fans. You always lying like a bitch on on YouTube videos. You a bitch you You a bitch You think I'm scared of you maybe you a little ass rat nigga a little more ass back the fuck to you Now it felt like Nade was using his indoor voice either one He's in a library or two his mom is sleeping in the next room I remember that whisper because I used to record GTA 5 videos doing the same thing anytime my mom wakes up She used to come with the slipper That shit like a dart said don't wake me up. I'm sorry mom. I had to record a video. That's when I knew I had to move out That's beyond the point honestly Don't really care about the drama, but you guys kept asking me about it and they're going back at it At the end of the day a little oozy said there's one bar one of his songs That was like it went something to the nature of if you made me go ahead and make another one Almost say like yo, I did this shit on my own So no really nobody made anybody right? I collab with a lot of small youtubers But I didn't make them if they didn't grind they weren't growing so it was on them at the end of the day For our next story there's some more drama this time. It's swante who's mad at annoying now I don't have any context for this one swante just kind of put out this tweet and it says this Law someone tell annoying lame ass that I have a whole job and mad Responsibilities and always have not everybody can sit at their mom's crib and stream 12 plus hours a day for years Or I'd easily pull more than you stop hating on Can't get demonetized. Sorry swante for no reason this ain't no competition for me He followed up saying I think I'm doing pretty good for all that I balanced law. Jesus Christ you Sorry, I gotta make money somehow take this internet so serious so toxic now Just based on what he's saying. It sounds like at some point annoying was taking shots at swante's viewer count I don't know swante has some pretty entertaining streams. I was in there last night He was talking all kinds of shit about me, but it's still entertaining though You see like youtubers are just beefing all of a sudden I don't know where all this drama is coming from talking about views and shit. Let me start some beef. All right Phantom your ass Davis you look like God. Is that how you say his name? Troy then is the worst rapper in the 2k community that song he did was incredibly cringy Tell me why cheese looks like Joker in this picture. All right, that should do the trick next episode I'll be in some drama For our next story of the day You couldn't have missed it NBA 2k released this new my team trailer and I'm not gonna lie, bro I haven't seen the my team community this excited about anything in a while now I would sit here and react to it But I assume you already saw it so I'm gonna point out the things that I found noticeable and then we'll move on one I don't know if they added a color correction or did some sort of color grading But in general the colors look more vibrant. It seems like maybe the saturation is higher There's more contrast in the photo when I say photos. I mean videos you get what I mean They changed of course like they do every year the card design so they look different I think this year's card designs look more Aesthetically pleasing than they did last year. Okay now this part was easily the most interesting for me This looks like a park It looks like stage or ante of and it's just a video of Yanis driving to the rim and doing it between the legs dunk This is what I guess blacktop is gonna look like I don't know if they have more courts This is what I've been telling 2k for a very long time if we could do this on the park I like the option to walk around in a neighborhood cool But I also like the idea of having matchmaking work Where you could just load in and play in iconic parks So I like this is cool and all it almost looks like a banquet hall that's Placed in Hong Kong or something But it'd be really nice to play in Rucker Park or or hoop dome Venice like all these iconic places that we know so Well, can you imagine all you have to do is click matchmaking and then it matches you up with some on your rank And it throws you into a beautiful looking-ass park with low latency because you don't have to load in everything else That'd be the dream. So anyway, I'm happy for the my team guys They seem gas about this right here the UI on my team looks Incredible. Oh, they looks like they might have taken a page from EA's book The user interface yo is on point. It looks so appealing I remember the days in 2k 14 where I couldn't even look at the menu because it looked hideous This is like a serious glow-up in 19 if it's something that no one's talking about. I appreciate it Anyway, that's really all there is to it Let's move on to the next story for the next story of the day. Let's make it quick Travis Scott is curating the soundtrack for 2k 19. Whoa, is that the that's a little booth? I was okay. I mean, I wish I would have went the same time as LeBron that had been iconic Here's a track list if you care Travis Scott is curating the playlist ladies and gentlemen I have to mute this stuff because I don't want to catch copyright So I haven't listened to a soundtrack of 2k seriously in like years So I really don't care about this so let's move on to the next one for our final story of The day Mike Wang is back at it again ladies and gentlemen I don't know what he's been up to or how he's gotten the approval But he's been talking about a lot of information specifically the takeover badge Which if you guys don't remember it's like a grand badge in 2k 17 It's like when you play good enough you get a takeover badge And it pretty much gives you temporary superpowers on the court And he was giving some details for every archetype and their specific takeover badges before we get to that though Somebody hit on Mike Wang they said Mike Wang is Wang pronounced with a A or a O sound I want to know how to say your name correctly now Obviously if you're using logic in this specific circumstance Mike Wang it has an A it's Wang That's what I thought because Mike Wang's name is pronounced wong This changes the whole foundation of our virtual relationship like wong. It's like I don't even know you anymore It's like everything I knew about you's been a lie when I was in first grade I was too afraid to tell my teacher that even though my name is spelt din is pronounced Dean So the whole year she was just calling me den the whole time and I just had to take it on the chin And then eventually my mom was like stop you know bitch And she just told it like yo you've been saying a name around the whole time And then my teacher was just looking at me like yo, I don't even know you anymore So this is how I feel about you right now Mike Wang whoa, okay I'm gonna call you Mike for the rest of my life now And Davis's reply someone's gonna make a video on this I did it it was me It wasn't a dedicated video though that would be crazy, and I did consider it knocking a lot I was gonna do like this whole meme thing, and I was like I can't do it It's doing the most all right So he's been putting out a lot of tweets about the takeover badge Just think about it like this if you're a sharp shooter you're shooting attributes to get it Magnificent boost when you're on the takeover badge right not only do you get an attribute boost? But he's saying the green window gets bigger and becomes easier for you to green your shots Etc. If you're a slasher you get super extra cool looking dunks if you're a playmaker You get in crazy more dribble moves just think about it like that whatever you already do that's your primary archetype It's like you doing that but on steroids when you're doing the takeover badge But there was one archetype that had some abilities when the takeover badge is activated that I found really interesting So let's go ahead and get into Mike Wang said glass cleaners got a lot of love this year One of my favorite additions in the new takeover is they get a target on the floor Showing where the ball is gonna go on miss shots gives them a huge rebounding advantage They also get elbow clear outs after offensive rebounds prior to put backs ladies and gentlemen That means that if you have a glass cleaner on your team Not only so you can be elbow folks up the way and getting a bigger advantage rebounding now But the second your shot goes up You're just chucking shots up He'll know if it misses and he'll be able to go to the spot and get the rebound that is in Insane now, I know takeover badge only lasts this long and Mike Wang clarified that the higher your overall The more upgraded your player is the longer your takeover lasts So everybody has takeover, but if you're like a 60 overall the shit's gonna last like this long So imagine if you're like a 99 overall glass cleaner would take over and it lasts like six or seven possessions That is a massive advantage and I don't know what brick wall is gonna be looking like in 19 but glass cleaners I don't know I seen a lot of those tweets in the glass pinners one I got to get my eyes on somebody sound a tweet They're like shout out to the guys by the way who tweet me with some shit pops off because sometimes I'm not near my computer and I look at my phone. I'm like, oh snap something's going down So raw will send me a tweet that I hope agents catching all this beluva replies because he's coming with the heat Mike Ryan replied to that. Yo, I'm telling you bro Oh Mike Wang Mike Wang is a huge fan because he said no classroom videos And he sent me a act ladies and gentlemen first of all I need you guys to know that ever since I recorded that video because I tried going back I'm banned from going there. They started locking the doors to those lecture halls now So if you guys missed the video link, I'll leave a link above basically I was trying to give this class presentation using the big PowerPoint in a lecture hall that proximity chat needs to be in The game and there's no game where it fits better than NBA 2k So if it was to be in 19 that'd be massive So apparently Mike Wang himself saw the video and he said no more classroom videos agent I don't know what listen if you're thinking what I'm thinking. Yeah, let me find out. Let me find out They put proximity chat in there. Let me find out. We had great minds think of light I really hope so it'd be a game changer for 2k 19. Yeah Yeah, I thought I was joking Mike Wang is my biggest fan. He'd be watching all my videos He's on notification squad. He sees all the secret notification squad messages He'd be in the comment section on burner accounts. Yeah, he thinks he thinks I don't know but I really do man I know so Mike Wang put out this tweet just about a week ago Maybe it was like four or five days ago and it sparked a massive outrage and people were going back and forth Basically, he was asking what should have more influence on a maid shop being open or the timing of the jump shot And everybody was going at it I was on the timing side, of course And a lot of people were on the open the side especially the playmakers A lot of those playmaker dribble heads were on the open the side and people were going back and forth on Twitter for a Very very long time now One of the things that Mike Wang made clear before going at that and I won't even touch that subject because that's a whole Another video on itself. I don't even want to make that video That's just been done and been passed Mike Wang put out this tweet and he clarified saying timing is much tougher And if you get a defender nearby you can expect to see a lot of bricks But a pure sharpened takeover left wide open with good timing is gonna hurt a lot of teams Which is like literally the exact response I wanted to hear I want I want to be sure that the people shooting very early and slightly early are missing more And the people shooting good and perfect are making more the guys shooting all wide should be rewarded The guys shooting half bars should be punished. That's the way games should work That's what a skills gap looks like so when I voted timing it was with this in mind You should be able to at the highest degree take control of the things you have control over one of them Is not taking bad shots and Mike Wang is making it clear not only his timing tougher But he's mentioned in the past that contested shots won't be dropping the way they did in 18 and especially 17 So if you've been shooting contested shots this whole time getting bailed out ladies and gentlemen It is gonna be a rude awakening when 2k 19 comes around and you're breaking all your shots Now that's about it. He went all in on the takeover badge I even put out a tweet seeing if Mike Wang Mike Wang would invite me to the 2k headquarters I want to do an interview ladies and gentlemen I want to walk around with my camera and ask Mike Wang some questions some very hard-hitting questions about 2k It would be the most fantastic iconic video of all time. That's all I'm saying That's all there is for the news if you guys enjoyed make sure drop a like subscribe to the channel and I'll catch you guys in the next one Peace click on one of these two videos by the way