Ive been playing through the game for a good amount now and just found out about the speedruns for it. I have a few questions regarding the NBA Challenge, Become a Legend Mode, and a general speedrunning question.

For the NBA Challenge ive only seen the current runs use nba teams. can i make my own team? Can it consist of the customizable characters ive made already and street legends, or only NBA players? the rules does not specify, but i just want to be sure.

For completing in the Be A Legend speedrun, the rules say the timer starts after you select a city. can i use development points to raise my character's stats before the timer starts(you have the option to customize your character before selecting the first city) or do all of your dev points have to be made through the Be A Legend run? potentially you could gain enough points to your character to max them out before the first game and could possibly shave off 20 minutes in the earlier matches. Again, the rules do not specify here. I plan on doing runs in all of these categories, but doing things like that especially since they haven't been addressed doesn't seem right to me.

Lastly, where can i find a timer to put on my video? or the splits timer i see in places like GDQ?

For NBA Challenge, I think that custom teams should be allowed. Keep in mind though, that you don't have to face whatever team you're playing as when you do NBA Challenge, so you would have to play an extra game if you use a custom team.

For Be a Legend, we should probably change the rules to make it so the timer starts when you select "Create New Baller". I don't think that dev points earned outside of the gamemode should be allowed for raising stats before a run, now that you have brought that point up.

For timer, livesplit is what many runners use (including myself). It's really easy to setup and highly customizable if that's what you're into.

at the end of completing an nba challenge with your character you have the chance to put them on the roster of any nba team team you want. should playing and using your created characters with the nba team on nba challenge be allowed? I noticed that my player was on the lakers team(i put him there after completing the nba challenge) and you can still skip playing the lakers in the southwest division on the nba challenge because your created character is officially apart of the team. This could be a way of making your team tons better if your character is maxed out. if its allowed i might post something in the references/strategy page or something. also uploading a WR in the southwest division tomorrow. :)

That's a really good point that I hadn't thought of. I think we should make the rules so that only default players are allowed for NBA Challenge, just to make it so that you can't just grind up a player to get a good time, and that it's essentially like starting a new NBA Challenge every time. Thanks for coming up with all these hypotheticals, it helps iron out the rules.

this might seem like a trivial question, but do we have to stick to one team through the whole NBA Challenge 100%? you have the opportunity to pick whatever team you want after completing a coast and you could always pick a new team in the coast you are going to so you face one less team every coast.

yeah you have to stay with the same team the whole time