All NBA 2K25 Badges and MyPLAYER Effects in MyCAREER

While we're still weeks away from the game's release, new details about all of the NBA 2K25 badges that will be available in MyCAREER have already been revealed. If you were buried in NBA 2K24 trying to put together the best builds with your favorite badges, there's a very high likelihood some of the ones you leaned on aren't there anymore.

2K removed nearly half of last year's badges, and that will have a major impact on the best builds that are identified when NBA 2K25 first arrives. Here, we've got the full list of NBA 2K25 badges and details on how badge impacts and progression will be changing.

NBA 2K25 Badges List and Effects

While there were 77 badges available in NBA 2K24, they've shrunk that to just 40 badges in NBA 2K25. You can also now level badges up an extra tier above Hall of Fame to Legend, and new Performance Multipliers provide an in-game boost to maximize your existing badges. Badge Elevators are here for the first time, and these Season Level rewards allow players to permanently boost an individual badge up to three levels so long as that doesn't exceed the badge's max potential for your build.

Here are all the badges in NBA 2K25:

Inside Scoring Badges

• Aerial Wizard: Increases the ability to finish an alley-oop from a teammate or a putback finish off an offensive rebound.
• Float Game: Improves a player's ability to make floaters.
• Hook Specialist: Improves a player's ability to make post-hooks.
• Layup Mixmaster: Improves a player's ability to finish fancy or acrobatic layups successfully.
• Paint Prodigy: Improves a player's ability to quickly and effeciently score while going to work in the paint.
• Physical Finisher: Improves a player's ability to battle through contact and convert contact layups.
• Post Fade Phenom: Improves a player's ability to make post fades and hop shots.
• Post Powerhouse: Strengthens a player's ability at backing down defenders and moving them with dropsteps.
• Post-Up Poet: Raises the chances of faking or getting by the defender, as well as scoring, when performing moves in the post. 
• Posterizer: Increases the chances of throwing down a dunk on your defender.
• Rise Up: Increases the likelihood of dunking or posterizing your opponent when standing in the painted area.

Outside Scoring Badges

• Deadeye: Jump shots taken with a defender closing out receive less of a penalty from a shot contest.
• Limitless Range: Extends the range from which a player can effectively shoot three-pointers from deep.
• Mini Marksman: Elevates the likelihood of making shots over taller defenders.
• Set Shot Specialist: Boosts chances of knocking down stand-still jump shots.
• Shifty Shooter: Improves a player's ability to successfully make off-the-dribble, high-difficulty jump shots.

Playmaking Badges

• Ankle Assassin: Increases the ability to break down the defender or cross them up.
• Bail Out: Passing out of a jump shot or layup yields fewer errant passes than normal. Additionally, it helps with passing out of double teams.
• Break Starter: After grabbing a defensive rebound, deep outlet passes made up the court are more accurate. Passes must be made quickly after the defensive rebound.
• Dimer: When in the half-court, passes by Dimers to open shooters yield a shot percentage boost.
• Handles For Days: A player takes less of an energy hit when performing consecutive dribble moves, allowing them to chain together combos quicker and for longer periods.
• Lightning Launch: Speeds up launches when attacking from the perimeter.
• Strong Handle: Reduces the likelihood of being bothered by defenders when dribbling.
• Unpluckable: Defenders have a tougher time poking the ball free with their steal attempts.
• Versatile Visionary: Improves a player's ability to thread and fit tight passes, including alley-oops, quickly and on time.

General Offense Badges

• Brick Wall: Increases the effectiveness of screens and drains energy from opponents on physical contact.
• Slippery Off-Ball: When attempting to get open off screens, the player more effectively navigates through traffic.

Defense Badges

• Challenger: Improves the effectiveness of well-timed contests against perimeter shooters.
• Glove: Increases the ability to successfully steal from ball-handlers, or strip layup attempts.
• High-Flying Denier: Boosts the speed and leaping ability of a defensive player in anticipation of a block attempt.
• Immovable Enforcer: Improves a defensive player's strength when defending ball handlers and finishers who are coming straight at them.
• Interceptor: The frequency of successfully tipped or intercepted passes greatly increases.
• Off-Ball Pest: Makes players more difficult to get pas when playing off-ball, as they can grab and hold their matchup.
• On-Ball Menace: Hounds and bodies up while defending on the perimeter.
• Paint Patroller: Increases the player's ability to block or contest shots at the rim.
• Pick Dodger: Improves a player's ability to navigate through and around screens while on defense.
• Post Lockdown: Strengthens a player's ability to effectively defend moves in the post, with an increased chance of stripping the opponent.

Rebounding Badges

• Boxout Beast: Improves a player's ability to box out and fight for good rebounding position.
• Rebound Chaser: Improves a player's ability to track down rebounds from farther distances than normal.

All Around Badge

• Pogo Stick: Allows players to quickly recover and go back up for another jump upon landing. This could be after a rebound, block attempt, or even jump shot.

All Badges Removed in NBA 2K25

Finally, for those who just wanna check if their favorite didn't make the cut, the following badges from NBA 2K24 have been removed in NBA 2K25:

• Agent 3
• Blinders
• Catch and Shoot
• Claymore
• Comeback Kid
• Corner Specialist
• Free Points
• Green Machine
• Guard Up
• Middy Magician
• Open Looks
• Post Fade Phenom
• Space Creator
• Spot Finder
• Ankle Breaker
• Blow By
• Hyperdrive
• Killer Combos
• Needle Threader
• Physical Handles
• Post Playmaker
• Relay Passer
• Speed Booster
• Touch Passer
• Triple Strike
• Acrobat
• Backdown Punisher
• Big Driver
• Bulldozer
• Bunny
• Dream Shake
• Dropstepper
• Fast Twitch
• Fearless Finisher
• Giant Slayer
• Masher
• Post Spin Technician
• Precision Dunker
• Pro Touch
• Scooper
• Spin Cycle
• Two Step
• Whistle
• 94 Feet
• Anchor
• Ankle Braces
• Chase Down Artist
• Clamps
• Fast Feet
• Right Stick Ripper
• Work Horse

Several of these have instead been rolled into some of the new NBA 2K25 badges, and other returning badges have been adjusted to include the effects that used to be with some that were removed.