NBA Street
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NBA Street is a series of basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 video games produced by EA Sports BIG
EA Sports BIG
EA Sports BIG is a brand name used by Electronic Arts since 2000 to distribute games based on sports with a non realistic arcade gameplay similar to Midway's sports games. SSX was the first game to be published by EA Sports BIG. No game of this brand has been released for PC or Mac.- Games :-...

. It combines the talent and big names of the NBA
National Basketball Association
The National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada...

 with the attitude and atmosphere of streetball
Streetball
Streetball or street basketball is a variation of the sport of basketball, typically played on outdoor courts and featuring significantly less by way of formal structure and enforcement of the game's rules...

. Since the original game's debut in 2001, incarnations of the series have been released for the PlayStation 2
PlayStation 2
The PlayStation 2 is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Sony as part of the PlayStation series. Its development was announced in March 1999 and it was first released on March 4, 2000, in Japan...

, GameCube
Nintendo GameCube
The , officially abbreviated to NGC in Japan and GCN in other regions, is a sixth generation video game console released by Nintendo on September 15, 2001 in Japan, November 18, 2001 in North America, May 3, 2002 in Europe, and May 17, 2002 in Australia...

, Xbox
Xbox
The Xbox is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Microsoft. It was released on November 15, 2001 in North America, February 22, 2002 in Japan, and March 14, 2002 in Australia and Europe and is the predecessor to the Xbox 360. It was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console...

, Xbox 360
Xbox 360
The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...

, and PlayStation 3
PlayStation 3
The is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series. The PlayStation 3 competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...

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Currently, there have been five games published in the series:
  • NBA Street
    NBA Street
    NBA Street is a series of basketball video games produced by EA Sports BIG. It combines the talent and big names of the NBA with the attitude and atmosphere of streetball...

    – the first in the series.
  • NBA Street Vol. 2
    NBA Street Vol. 2
    NBA Street Vol. 2 is the sequel to NBA Street. It was released in 2003 for the PlayStation 2, GameCube, and for the first time in the series, on the Xbox. Japan was only able to see a PlayStation 2 release of this game...

    – the sequel to NBA Street.
  • NBA Street V3
    NBA Street V3
    NBA Street V3 is the third game in the NBA Street series. It is the sequel of NBA Street Vol. 2. It was released for PlayStation 2, GameCube and Xbox, along with a PlayStation Portable port of V3 called NBA Street Showdown....

    – the third installment in the series.
  • NBA Street Showdown
    NBA Street Showdown
    NBA Street Showdown is a basketball game for the PlayStation Portable. It was released on April 27, 2005, and is the fourth game in the NBA Street series and the first to be portable. The game primarily features minigames, shot blocker and arcade shootout, as well as quick game modes. You can play...

    – the PSP port
    Porting
    In computer science, porting is the process of adapting software so that an executable program can be created for a computing environment that is different from the one for which it was originally designed...

     of NBA Street V3.
  • NBA Street Homecourt – the fourth installment in the series for Xbox 360 and PS3.
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