NBA 2K23 Season 3 Update Guide: Release Date, Events, Level 40 Rewards & More Prizes

Happy Holidays! NBA 2K23 Season 3 is coming to MyTEAM. We are coming up on one of the best times of the year. What NBA 2K23 Season 3 rewards can you expect from this new update? In this guide, we share all the leaked NBA 2K23 next gen and current gen rewards for Season 3.

NBA 2K23 Season 3 Update Guide: Release Date, Events, Level 40 Rewards & More Prizes

Without a doubt that 2K23 Season 3 is Christmas themed! On November 30, 2022, the current festival will conclude along with Season 2. On the next day, NBA2K23 Season 3 is going to launch. Now, we are going to tell you everything about the rewards and everything that you need to know before Season 3 releases. So that you have plenty of time to prepare since Season 3 is just about to begin.

NBA 2K23 Season 3 Events

Trophy Case Event

Start Time: November 29

We are getting a new trophy case event in Season 3 starts on November 29. In this competition, finishing a franchise's Trophy Case will grant access to a new, elite player. There are 15 Event Cards featuring significant occasions in the history of each NBA club; your goal is to collect all of them and earn a Pink Diamond player from each organization as a prize. By accumulating 5 Pink Diamond players from different divisions, you will be rewarded with a Galaxy Opal, and by completing the collections for the conferences and the NBA, you will receive 3 Dark Matter players with an OVR of 99.

NBA 2K Compete

Start Time: December 3

We don't know what NBA 2K Compete event looks like so far. This event starts on Saturday, December 3.

Power Up

Start Time: December 10

The next event's going to be Power Up which starts on December 10, 9 am. It’s a 5v5, receive Godlike Boosts on the court of Greek Legends. That's basically how you do that event.

Dunk Fest

Start Time: December 17

Dunk Fest is basically a version of Dome Time that starts on December 17, 9 am. All you need to do is come together as a community to hit the designated dunks goal and win prizes.

Dime Time

Start Time: December 24

Dime Time is an event exclusive to NBA 2K21's MyPark mode that rewards players for dishing out assists while playing games against other MyPark members.

Badge Hunter: Finishing

Start Time: December 26

This NBA2K23 Season 3 event starts on December 26, it's on Monday day 6 a.m in the morning. You will receive double badge points in the finishing category.

Specialist Appreciation: Shooters

Start Time: December 27 

It's basically you get 3xp for a lot of shooting badges like 28 shooting. If you get 28 shooting badges, you get 3xp. You get 18 shooting that you get 2xp.

Hunters Defensive

Start Time: December 28

It's on a Wednesday, December 28. You will get 2xp on defensive badges for Badge Hunters.

Special Appreciation Playmakers 

Start Time: December 29

This event begins on Thursday, December 29, and is going to be for playmaking. 2xp to 3xp for qualifying players.

NBA 2K Compete

Start Time: December 3

Badge Hunter: Shooting

Start Time: December 31

Receive double badge points in the shooting category. It means badge progress, so you get 2xp on your badge progress while you play this. 

Wave

Start Time: January 7

Defeat each wave of opponents

NBA 2K23 Season 3 Challenges

We will be getting the Moment challenges in NBA 2K23 Season 3 update. We are not sure if it's going to be for a centerpiece or going to be in the same format.

NBA 2K23 Season 3 Level 40 Rewards

Who should be our level 40 reward NBA 2K23 Season 9? The two most likely players for level 40 are Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Blake Griffin. Those two are super likely. The reason we think that is because we've received Magic and Penny, so we've received these two big point guards and there are really no other options for big point guards. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is always someone that they give us in reward fashion, and we haven't seen a Moment Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. He's been popping off this year so it would indicate that we're probably likely to see a reward version of him. Someone like Blake Griffin would make a lot of sense too.

NBA 2K23 Season 3 Rewards & Prizes Predictions

This year what can we predict everything is for trophy case pieces which by the way will stay the same because everything is going to be for centerpieces. That's not going away anytime soon for lack of a better system. We are sure there's definitely a better system for that. It's possible maybe we get some players instead maybe they're taking the centerpieces and giving them out as agenda challenges from this point forward which would be huge. You have to keep in mind that they have to cater to a lot of the new players who are going to be getting the game for Christmas and who received it for Black Friday. If they put mode-specific players back in that would be pretty cool or if there was like a choice pack that would be even sicker.

For Limited, same thing. It's going to be the takeover pack, nothing's changed. They did state, there's going to be an overhaul of draft mode. It’s said that there are some reward cards that need updating. What that means, is they're going to update the stats of Larry Bird, Julius Erving, and Tim Duncan, they're basically going to update their stakes and animations. What it could also mean is they could be giving evos to some of the older players like Scottie Pippen or even maybe some of the pink diamonds for the trophy case like Elton Brand who's probably not going to receive another card for probably a long period of time. 

It's just an update to the stats and stakes for Larry Bird, Julius Erving, and Tim Duncan to make them more meta and more worthwhile to grind. But it could be any other thing as well.