FRANCHISE • Import from The League: bring any of your League careers into Franchise from Create a Player. Same rating, tier, play style, tags and size, plus his honors (MVPs, rings, All-Star and All-League teams, titles) and his career stats season by season, with every milestone. • Rotations follow your roster over the summer. Players who leave in free agency come out of the lineup and your draft picks show up right away. COACH ERA FIT • Coaches now pay for coaching outside their own era. Coming forward in time costs about twice what going back does. • Timeless coaches: Popovich, Phil Jackson, Riley and more take no penalty, others take half. ERA GAUNTLET • Four new upgrades: Coach Adaptability, Alpha, Forged Bond and Forged Mentorship. • Cut half of a forged pair and the player left behind is unhappy for the rest of the run. WEEKLY CHALLENGE • Every week is now Easy, Medium and Hard, worth 1x, 1.25x and 1.5x toward your weekly total. TAGS • Steve Nash is a Shooting Star T3. Dwyane Wade is Timeless T2. FIXES • Typing your leaderboard team name no longer freezes the game or turns the screen black. • Added new supporters to the Hall of Fame.

Franchise Mode Updates: • iCloud sync: your leagues follow you across iPhone, iPad and Mac. • Smarter trades: Stars move at a realistic rate, and teams call about players who aren’t on the block more, and expiring contracts are cheaper. • Rookies no longer ask out, and trade requests are settled within the season. • Real 2024–2026 playoff stats on player cards. • Faster trade machine. • Fixed a crash during sims, and a player card stretching off screen with several Dynamic Duos. New • Home Screen widgets: Weekly Challenge countdown, Lifetime Stats, and your Franchise team • Get notified when each new Weekly Challenge goes live Fixes • Settings and Account no longer crash on Mac and iPad FRANCHISE MODE: Run a basketball franchise for as long as you want. • Start with today's real rosters and contracts, or with a fantasy draft. • Trade with front offices that think like real ones: contenders buy at the deadline, rebuilders sell, and every team counts the tax and the aprons. Pick protections, swaps and draft-night deals included. • Scout prospects, run workouts and second looks, watch the lottery and make your picks on a live draft night. • Free agency with real cap rules: Bird rights, exceptions, two-way contracts, extensions and the Minor League. • Set your rotation, sim day by day, and stop at the trade deadline to make your move. • Players develop, age and retire. Hang numbers in the rafters, and induct the greats into the Hall of Fame. • Awards night, All-Star weekend, the playoffs and a summer report on how your players grew. • Create a player and add him to any of your save files. ALSO • Bug fixes and polish.

NEW: FRANCHISE MODE Run a basketball franchise for as long as you want. • Start with today's real rosters and contracts, or with a fantasy draft. • Trade with front offices that think like real ones: contenders buy at the deadline, rebuilders sell, and every team counts the tax and the aprons. Pick protections, swaps and draft-night deals included. • Scout prospects, run workouts and second looks, watch the lottery and make your picks on a live draft night. • Free agency with real cap rules: Bird rights, exceptions, two-way contracts, extensions and the Minor League. • Set your rotation, sim day by day, and stop at the trade deadline to make your move. • Players develop, age and retire. Hang numbers in the rafters, and induct the greats into the Hall of Fame. • Awards night, All-Star weekend, the playoffs and a summer report on how your players grew. • Create a player and add him to any of your save files. ALSO • Bug fixes and polish. 3.4.1: fixes a crash when opening the volume controls on iPad and Mac, plus smarter CPU trades.

NEW: FRANCHISE MODE Run a basketball franchise for as long as you want. • Start with today's real rosters and contracts, or with a fantasy draft. • Trade with front offices that think like real ones: contenders buy at the deadline, rebuilders sell, and every team counts the tax and the aprons. Pick protections, swaps and draft-night deals included. • Scout prospects, run workouts and second looks, watch the lottery and make your picks on a live draft night. • Free agency with real cap rules: Bird rights, exceptions, two-way contracts, extensions and the Minor League. • Set your rotation, sim day by day, and stop at the trade deadline to make your move. • Players develop, age and retire. Hang numbers in the rafters, and induct the greats into the Hall of Fame. • Awards night, All-Star weekend, the playoffs and a summer report on how your players grew. • Create a player and add him to any of your save files. ALSO • Bug fixes and polish.

Bug fixes to Weekly Challenge

PERFORMANCE • The animated backdrops are much lighter: the game runs cooler and is easier on your battery. NEW: BATTERY SAVER • A plain backdrop with nothing moving, in Settings, for when you want the game and nothing else. SETTINGS • Cross-platform settings sync. Sign in and your settings follow you between the web and iOS.

PLAYER DATABASE Every player in the game, browsable in the app Reached from PLAYER DATABASE on the main menu, under Mini Games. SIMULATION Over 700 forwards/centers era fit penalties decreased when they go back in time. Players such as Kenyon Martin. SUPPORTERS Any purchase now earns the supporter badge. WEEKLY CHALLENGE Week 16 challenge is live.

Head to Head is fully intertwined now • Pick clock, ready up, and live updates on your opponent's draft and season • Each of you plays your own conference. Two champions meet in the Finals; if only one gets there, they face the AI. • The Finals plays out game by game with box scores, and the result names a Finals MVP • Chat with your opponent for the whole match, with one-tap reactions • Your record against every opponent shows in the versus room • *Both players need this version to play each other New: Weekly Rewind • Replay any finished Weekly Challenge with the rules it shipped with. Just for fun, it doesn't touch the leaderboard The League • Learn to Play: an 8-step tutorial on the careers screen • Sim games you don't want to play • Shorter seasons, longer playoffs. Era Gauntlet • Skipping the coach re-spin gives you an extra draft re-spin • Choose which version a player upgrades into • Total Score is now on your lifetime stats Also • Unlimited mini games: watch an ad to keep going when a run ends (free with Remove Ads) • Smoother era picking, with arrows and swipes when your phone is sideways • Normal Draft, Salary Cap and Sandbox stay on the menu, locked until you pick an era • Tim Duncan and David Robinson are now two-way anchors • Bug fixes

- Fixed a League softlock when you won the opening tip yourself - Fixed Era Gauntlet free agency re-spins that showed the same players - Fixed era hop signings joining in the wrong decade

NEW MODE: THE LEAGUE A single-player tabletop RPG inside EraBall. Build your player, then play from open runs to college, the draft and the league, rolling dice off your abilities to win the stretches that decide your career. Relationships, endorsements, homes, money, standing and trust all shape your story. - Upload your own photo for your player card - Every class now shows its strengths and weaknesses - UI overhauled and optimized for mobile screens, in both portrait and landscape - A trophy case, a career track, and a real EraBall card when you retire WEEK 14 CHALLENGE Players from the 1960s through the 1990s: 5 S-tier, 3 A-tier and 1 E-tier. Dynamic Duo and Mentor/Mentee bonuses are doubled. ALSO NEW - Achievements can be filtered by rarity - New backdrops to choose from: Rafters, Hardwood and Confetti. Starfield is still available - Simple view shows the position penalty before you place a player - Heavier screen shake when a spin lands, and a switch to turn screen effects off - Tap an achievement pop-up anywhere to close it - Cleaner draft tier limits and weekly challenge rules - Remove Ads: a one-time purchase in Settings FIXES - Fixed a crash when abandoning an Era Gauntlet run - Fixed League softlocks, tied games and double-counted Momentum - Many more fixes, listed in the in-game What's New