Fantasy sports platform Sorare has entered into a partnership with the NBA and National Basketball Players’ Association (NBPA) to launch a fantasy basketball game that will be released when the NBA 2022-23 season begins. This high profile collaboration is characteristic of the Softbank-backed company’s rapid growth, having raised $680 million as part of the biggest Series B funding round in Europe last year.
The game called ‘Sorare: NBA’ will allow players to build the basketball team of their dreams by purchasing NFTs of NBA players. Fans will collect points based on the actual performance of the players featured on their digital collectibles.
“With Sorare’s emerging NFT fantasy platform, we see significant opportunities to broaden our community of fans and grow NBA basketball around the world,” said NBA Commissioner Adam Silver.
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