It is a multiplayer basketball manager game. You manage a team, set tactics, sign players, train players. Trade and interact with other managers. Sign players from free agent and restricted agent markets. Scout players. Control youth team and take care of youngsters in the academy. You can watch live games in a box score mode.
You compete against other managers in two leagues: national and world. Players from all around the world are playing. Biggest communities include: Lithuania, China, Argentina, Russia, Italy etc. So you compete against your fellow countrymen, maybe your friends if you might invite them to play. And against international players where competition is much tougher. Sometimes if you for example finish your playoff series with a sweep there is a free day where you can set a friendly match.
At the creation of club you get a very talented player which you can name. This player will be your key to success at the beginning. Other players are scrubs but you can sign others and release the ones you get at the start.
The season takes 63 days. So it is a fast paced game. As I mentioned there are matches every day. First regular season. If your team is good enough you advance to second round where you have a shot at making playoffs and possibly moving to a higher division. If regular season was not good for your team you still have to fight to avoid relegation to a lower division.
What I like about this game the most is that the matches take place every single day. Even two matches a day if you decide to have a youth team and develop young players for a future of your team. What could be a minus is that games are played at a set time and it can be inconvenient time for you personally to watch games live. But game time changes if you advance or decline to a different league. Matches take place every day which means you do not bored waiting for other match like in other games where it is once or twice a week. You have to tailor your tactic based on the opponent!
Rivalries occur between managers. Especially when one outbids other in the market. This makes the game way more fun. Some managers may go as far as intentionally outbidding rival manager’s player.
Managers can make a comments after/before the match. On the signing/release/trade of a player. And this is not limited to your team/player. You can comment on other teams matches. This feature makes the game more social unlike other manager games where you at most have a forum which is not active anyways.
Trades are a big part of the game
Don’t even get me started on tactics, training, trading or scouts. Every manager can focus on the feature they like the most. Some like training potential youngsters into stars. Some just enjoy preparing smart tactics and outplaying stronger teams with a good strategy. Others focus on acquiring the best talent with a help of a trades.
It is a freemium game. But unlike other games real money doesn’t win championships here. It helps and gives more features and stats to analyse but at the end you can live without just fine.
All in all I encourage you to try it. Could be a learning curve at first but please don’t drop it after a few days if you do not understand something. Join game’s discord server where community talks and helps each other.