The Cavs and Warriors will have their own 'NBA 2K eLeague' teams

[Joystiq]

The inaugural season of the NBA's "

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," featuring eSports teams owned by NBA franchises, is looking more promising now than when it was announced in February. Today, the NBA revealed that 17 of its 30 teams will participate in the eSports competition, which it created in partnership with

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(developer of the NBA2K series) and is scheduled to begin in 2018. Earlier this year, the league had said it only expected

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, but clearly it managed to get many more of them interested before launch.

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