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Currently, eSports is becoming more and more popular, especially among youth. Multiplayer online battle arena, first-person shooter, fighting, card games, battle royales, and real-time strategy are the most demanded video game genres associated with esports. Even basketball, football, and other team games come over online too. For example, the NBA game was created by 2K, an American video game publisher in 1999. Actually, the NBA is an American professional basketball league, and 2K has developed a series of basketball sports simulation video games in order to emulate the NBA. Every season various teams make the most of their chances to win the next round. Among such teams is Magic Gaming, one of the best eSports teams that play the NBA. The six men come together to hit the biggest balls amount into a basketball net playing NBA 2K online.
Every Magic Gaming guy is a professional NBA 2K player. Kontrul, UCMANNY, SUPREME PULLER, NachoTraynor, MARLEY213s, KingCamRoyalty have firstly formed this team.
Kontrul - the original name is Christopher Cantrell. The gamer was born in Jacksonville, Florida. He also was a student of Florida university. Kontrul has played 2K since 2011 and started participating in competitions in 2014. He plays an aggressive defense to match his sharpshooting and playmaking.
UCMANNY - the original name is Emmanuel Cruz. The gamer was born in New York, USA. In the Magic Gaming team, he has a Power Forward position.
SUPREME PULLER - the original name is Bilal Almashni. He is from Oaklawn, Illinois. Supreme Puller joined Magic Gaming in 2018 to the position of SF (Small Forward). Except for NBA 2K in which the guy plays professionally, he also plays the Epic Games sensation Fortnite, the Call of Duty series, and Respawn Entertainment's Apex Legends games.
NachoTraynor - the original name is Brian Traynor. The gamer was born in Oaklawn, Illinois. He started his way from “Magic Gaming” in 2018, NachoTraynor’s position among other team players is shooting guard. In 2019 Brain continued with “T-Wolves Gaming” and recently chose “Hornets Venom GT”.
Marley213S_ - his original name is Jorge Renteria. The man was born and grew up in Arizona, USA. Having a center position in the Magic Gaming team, Marley213s_ participated in 4 tournaments in 2018.
KingCamRoyalty - his original name is Cameron Ford, he is from Cleveland, OH. Position - Power Forward. In Magic Gaming since 2018.
Each guy was multi-level tested before they became the Magic Gaming members. In the first stage, all gamers had to play several matches. Then all members who managed to win this competition passed to the next stage where they had personal conversations on the knowledge of basketball, e-sport experience, and the similar. There it was important to draw the characteristics of each player at all. The final stage was the draft, in which players were selected for their teams and assigned to their roles.
It would be really hard to pass such a complicated selecting tour. The six guys described above had done their best in order to become Magic Gaming members. Kontrul, UCMANNY, SUPREME PULLER, NachoTraynor, MARLEY213s, KingCamRoyalty are the group of professional NBA 2K gamers. It was the first Magic Gaming lineup formed and participated in the regular NBA 2K League season in 2018. Unfortunately, Magic Gaming lagged behind their opponents by a few points in the first few games. The team made a good start despite it because they proved their worth showing a pretty decent game. Without giving up, gamers sharply turned the situation around starting from the third week of the season. Magic Gaming gave hope for the best outcomes, and thus, every team member played the full role of all 200%. By the way, in NBA 2K League 2018 The Turn tournament, Magic Gaming won $6,000 for getting 5-8 places.
For the 2019 NBA 2K League season, only two gamers who joined the Magic Gaming team were UCmanny and KingCamRoyalty. The draft stage consisted of 4 rounds, and a pool was of 198 players. Generally, it was 17 original teams, including Magic Gaming that would like to save the previous lineup. But every team had an opportunity to save only two members of the previous team lineup. Of course, it was a little complicated to choose 2 players from 6 really super-professional gamers. But it’s just like chess. In the season of 2018, UCmanny performed very complex throws with more than a 50% chance of getting into the basket(it's a really high chance). At the same time, KingCamRoyalty’s average PPG was 14.2, BPG - 1.5, and RPG as much as 8.5, which is the first result in his team. As a result of the draft, the new Magic Gaming lineup consisted of Reizey, DT, KelMav, TuckerLocksUp, UCMANNY, and KingCamRoyalty. In 2020, the Magic Gaming roster consisted of the following games: ToXsiK, Profusion, Reizey, PG, May, DT, Djbama.