Last updated on January 2nd, 2026 at 08:57 pm
EA SPORTS™ NBA LIVE Mobile – Simulation Game Review
EA SPORTS™ NBA LIVE Mobile is a Simulation/Sports/Sports game from EA Swiss Sarl, first launched in 5th July 2016.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 486,954+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes EA SPORTS™ NBA LIVE Mobile Stand Out
NBA Live Mobile, where the NBA is powered by you. Whether you want to pick up and play a quick basketball game or settle in for a long session of completing challenges and dominating the court, you’re in total control of your NBA Live Mobile experience.
Dominate the court with a brand-new gameplay engine, stunning graphics, realistic basketball simulation gameplay, and the authenticity of live mobile NBA games right at your fingertips. Take on the NBA Tour and Limited-Time Live Events to polish your skills and earn new player items on your way to becoming the ultimate GM. Ready for a more competitive mode? Head to Rise to Fame, where you’ll take on harder and harder challenges and climb the leaderboards. And if you want to play with friends, unlock Leagues mode to create or join a League and take on special challenges.
EA SPORTS™ NBA LIVE Mobile Basketball Game Features:
Basketball Games Meet Authentic Sports Games Simulation
- Mobile basketball gaming at its finest with real chemistry and total control
- Live out your wildest basketball dreams. Create dream team combinations and pit your skills against top NBA basketball stars
Iconic NBA Players & Teams
- Draft over 30 of your favorite NBA teams like the New York Knicks or Dallas Mavericks
- Play as the Los Angeles Lakers, Miami Heat, Golden State Warriors and more
- Collect and play with over 230 of your favorite basketball stars
- Pick the reigning champion Oklahoma City Thunder for your team and compete for dominance!
Basketball Manager Gameplay
- Unlock and collect basketball stars with their unique attributes and skills
- Manage your dream team and upgrade them to their full potential
- Improve your OVR to unlock the Chemistry, Heat Up, and Captain abilities to boost your team’s performance and synergy
- Refine your team with Learn: The Fundamentals, have your players run drills, practice skills, and master plays
Competitive Sports Games & NBA Live Basketball Events
- Rise to Fame Tournaments – PvE matches where you earn points and promotions as you race to rank on the leaderboard
- 5v5 and 3v3 basketball scenarios have you mixing up your teams and playstyles to be victorious
Authenticity & On-Court Realism
- All-new gameplay engine: Smoother moves, sharper visuals, and higher framerates bring the NBA closer to real life.
- Real playcalling: Make strategic plays and get tactical with quick calls
- Real-time Total Control: Intuitive controls matched with seamless passing have you setting up offense and defenses like a pro
- NBA mobile experience: Play in iconic NBA arenas recreated for mobile
Authentic NBA Mobile Game Content & Non-stop Action
- Daily and weekly goals: Keep your basketball team ahead of the curve
- Leagues: Join and challenge events together with friends to unlock unique players and upgrades
- NBA Tour: Challenge yourself in a massive single-player experience with 40+ Campaigns, 300+ Stages, and over 2000+ events all themed to real NBA stories
Create your Legacy
- Take on the challenge of Rivals as you help top NBA basketball stars overcome their fiercest opponents
- If you can claim victory, unlock these basketball superstars and draft them for your own team to reach even higher heights
- Fan HYPE: Earn fans to unlock game modes and events in the game
Take to the court and dominate the hoops. Download EA SPORTS™ NBA LIVE Mobile now and get ready to shoot, dribble, and slam dunk your way to victory!
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This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, EA SPORTS™ NBA LIVE Mobile is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 17th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
• All-New Engine: Experience smoother, faster, more authentic gameplay with higher framerates, enhanced lighting, and dynamic camera angles.
• New Gameplay: Run plays in real time, master the Dribble Stick, and dominate with the Heat Up mechanic.
• Core Overhaul: Redesigned shooting, timing-based steals, and swipe defense for fluid, strategic action.
• Deeper Progression: Build chemistry, collect Players, and power up Snapshots.
• NBA Tour: Conquer 2000+ events and 50+ campaigns.
Download & Availability
EA SPORTS™ NBA LIVE Mobile is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get EA SPORTS™ NBA LIVE Mobile on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This game was peak when we had live events and many things to grind and awesome player cards (cant forget the auction house snipes) All we ask is for you guys to bring it back. We know yall have the beta going but we are ready for the real deal release.
Can you guys add a mode where we can create our own players and add a season mode and we have to upgrade each of them to create our own dynasty.
This is the best just need to add something new and unique.
Love playing this game but the quarter lengths is to short, players stats needs to be shown.
When will the new beta be available in the US.
When u dropping new season nothing to do in game??????? 3-4 weeks with nothing to do EA COME ON.
We want to try this game because we like nba.
The PG thing in season celebration mode we always lose because our shots count as D.Cunninghams shots but overall great game.
One question we need help and pretty sure others you can't play live pass section it says Campgain is not active.
We bought Wendy and we didnt get it like what.
Not much to say, love the game. And the AUCTION HOUSE. The Auction house is the main thing keeping our attention to this app. After seeing the Madden 26 Mobile update with NO Auction house, we decided to play the only fun sport game left. NBA Live.
NBA live is our favorite game but it needs more content Also will there be any more limited time events before the update if not please add some it is getting a bit boring without the new events. Besides that great game. Top tier.
We love this game it is like on a ps5 and not a mobile game it truly is a great game.
THIS GAME IS SO GOOD AND FUN but the only thing they need to do is make better graphics but overall is pretty good.
We love the game so much and we have fun with it, but u should do our promos, add custom jerseys, custom courts to new seasons and overall just better gameplay for new or old players, Ive been playing this game for 6 years no gameplay to adjust too which is kinda making the game stale to us and all the other old players that play, just want to see if yall can experiment some new stuff us vets other than that love the game.
Plz make more events please the game is so dang good and play it any chance we get but for months no events have been there at all except one that Ive already completed 6 months ago and when you make events make smaller ones always on as someone who hates pvp we rely on the small events to be there just please make some small ones cause our events havent had one in months and we miss this game its the only time we can play cause the campaigns are locked by stuff you have to buy.
Nice game, we just played one game and we cant play the next game. Maybe because Im not familiar with the game.
Good game but they should add a sound to the net when you make a shot thanks.
Like every games logic is awesome but the game itself is not that good. Just that we still cant believe that we cant rob the ball on this game bro. Like the In game view is beautiful, just that its kinda funny that theres only 2 buttons on our level(idk if theres more buttons available on different levels because Im level 2 or some) we kinda think that if we could rob it would be better. 5/5 Game.
Well, like we like the game, but the loading takes forever. The constant loading hurts our head. EA fix this trash.
We all love the game but please make the pvp available at all time so people can connect and play with other individuals other than always playing with AI or Machines. Ive been waiting for the server to connect us to a player for over 2 hours yet no success. And some changes should be made concerning jersey customization, Courts and more. We feel like the game is static despite all the updates throughout the years. Yall should step it up.
If you guys bring MyCarrer it would be so much fun & MyPark. It Would definitely be fun to experience.
Its pretty good but the store isnt working.
Honestly we love the game and we would have given 5 stars but for some reason, the pvp program doesnt work with our account and it gets frustrating.
This game is very fun. However we often find it hard to use the basic touch controls. This game would be a 10/10 if there was controller support.
We know this might sound dumb, but we think they should have a our career mode, it would be fun to see ur player play with a random team. Or maybe even player lock and play as someone on ur team.
Our team is ONE HUNDRED AND THREE RATED But we still get destroyed in showdown. Please make a update that makes it so in showdown you have to be within 3 overall.
The game is so fun..But it says that we need to update the game but it doesnt say that we need to update it on the AppStore.
When we go in the app we can not play the game when it says update and we go to the App Store we cant update it says open so we cant play pls fix this app so we can play or youre going to get one star.
When are you guys going to fix the auction house so we can buy and sell players again been crashed for to long:(.
Get 1 steal or win. We get a steal, the game is not counting it.
Im playing with our team in matches and Im making all green and says Im missing we make yellows and reds and says we make?can you please fix this.
This game has bad graphics but it is a good game but the players sometimes have the wrong jerseys numbers on the back and what will make it better is that the graphics and the jerseys and the players have to get fixed in the game.
Good game but there is no reason It should take so long to be able to unlock the auction.
Theres literally nothing to do. No events. No auction house. No pvp because it never loads. Players dont even look like themselves. Get it together EA.
It just stays on the loading screen and wont let us join it and we used to play it all the time and now when we join it just stays on the loading screen.
Hey man what's going on with the monthly events and challenges y'all always have. We love playing this game but if has become boring for real!!! Hey what's going on no holiday challenges the last challenge was NBA Finals 25 challenge. Y'all ran out of ideas the fans of this game at least have the right to know or just update.
Nobody should be missing green shots especially wide open. Then the cpu will make a strong contest. Also missing wide open green shots multiple times in a row during a challenge is absolutely crazy. Idk how anybody would spend real money on this game. We know this is a mobile game but come on EA youre a multimillion dollar company. Also you should add more sets so we can get rid of cards we dont use. EA wonders why their console NBA live failed and wont be doing college basketball games either.
We used to love playing it but it doesnt live up to the newer mobile games auctions dont work they overall stuff is dumb how is our team at a higher overall but you bust the others states and they are better the ball goes thru players allowing steals there is alot needed to be done honeslty it just doesnt live up to wat it used to be we need roster upsates auctions updates animation updates and for gos sake put a damb dribble stick on this pressing a button to do an unknown dribble move is fake enjoyment.
This used to be our favorite iOS game. We used to love playing the events and earning new players. We used to look forward to seeing which players would be available in the new events and we used to play this game throughout the day, every day. But, after playing it for a few years, it has gotten boring. The game is basically the same and has not changed much at all. We stopped playing it for over a year. We decided to give it a try again, and its still the same game. The events are the same, and the players on your team still plays no defense and still cant get a rebound to save their lives. Ill check in again at the beginning of the NBA season. If nothing has changed by then, Ill take another year off.
We remember the first ever NBA Live Mobile and it was the best one with all the different types of teams and different sets and the different types of promos. Ive been praying for a version like that again. We dont need any 110 overall players bring back the bronze silver and elites. Thats all we need.
Tha game is good just need some work .like making it more realistic. And tha characters pls fix it.
Whats going on? Science last update we cannot enter new happening now Always crashing.
We cant make our own theme our own player other mobile game lets us this will NEVER be in our history AGAIN.
We like the game but it is 1. To complicated and Ive been playing video games/ computer games since we were 5 and now Im 8 and its rated 4+ 2.it is underrated it should be 9+ because how complicated it is 3. We cant figure out how to play against a team staring in the 1st quarter instead of the 4th quarter 4. We want play whoever has the most points at the wins not whoever achieves something.
Best game ever, played it for a long time, about 5 years. We finally stoped, time wasting machine. The 5 starts are for old times sake.
We love this game so much! We just wish they would update it more often and open back up the auction shop other than that great game.
The game is fun but just In the season and playoffs it just need to more time but anything but that its fun.
We love the game been playing since it came out just would like to see more animations and graphics updated a bit.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 10.00.11
- Size: 1,328.86 MB
- iOS: 17.0 or later
- Languages: NL, EN, FR, DE, ID, IT, JA, KO, PT, ZH, ES, ZH, TR
- Content Advisory: Loot Boxes
- Developer: EA Swiss Sarl
Last updated: 17th December 2025 | Genre: Simulation, Sports | Developer: EA Swiss Sarl