Dribbling the basketball in NBA 2K24 comes in three different styles. Gamers can do basic, normal and pro. As the names suggest, the levels open up advantages as the degree of difficulty goes up.

I’m not what you’d call a coordinated man, so basketball horrifies me. All the dribbling, all the shooting—all while running and dodging people trying to smack the ball out of your hands ...

Well, look no further than Carnegie Mellon University and DeepMotion, which together trained AI how to dribble a basketball and pull off increasingly advanced moves as it learned.