NBA Live Mobile Gameplay and Updates 2016 for Android and iOS: Trey Burke Leads New 'Campus Heroes' Ratings; Complete List of Collectibles

By Maverick Russel Flores, CP Contributor Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Since its official launch, the NBA Live Mobile app for Android and iOS had been a phenomenon among basketball fans around the world.

Over the past months, it had never failed to come up with new features, players and player programs to give users new options to gun for. The latest of which is the introduction of the new Campus Heroes program, which focuses on players who gave impressive performances in their college basketball teams before entering the pro league.

The list includes 15 improved players, including Trey Burke, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and Jerian Grant.

The mobile basketball craze

Just 6 hours after it went live, NBALM was already the most downloaded app on both Google Play and the App Store. The app is free-to-play, save for some in-app purchases that are not really necessary to progress through the game. Thus, it can surpass the popularity of the NBA 2K mobile game, a premium app that costs $8 to download.

The principle of the game is simple. It features elements from the NBA Live console game, enabling users to use their favorite teams and stars in a 14-game season. The clincher, however, is its Ultimate Team concept, wherein users can bolster the NBA team of their choice with a variety of hardcourt stars.

Players from the base set are presented in five cards, each assigned to different lineups with varying stat boosts. These include Shooting, Big Man, Two-Way, Small Ball and Defensive. They are put in a hierarchy of ratings—Bronze, Silver, Gold and Elite—and can be "pulled" from purchase card packs or bought from/sold at the auction house.

Programs and sets allow users to get higher-rated versions of their favorite players, including the coveted 93-rated NBA Supremacy LeBron James, the 92 Juggernaut Shaquille O'Neal and the 95 NBA Master Russell Westbrook. Legends and Throwback versions of players are also available.

The land before NBA

The Campus Heroes program comes with a new weekly live event, where users can "grind" for chances at a Campus Heroes player or collectible, which can be used to complete sets and get either a Gold or Elite player.

Below is the list of Campus Heroes players with their respective lineups and ratings:

Elite

Trey Burke (Shooting) - 87
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (Small Ball) - 86
Jerian Grant (Defensive) - 85
Jabari Parker (Big Man) - 84
Julius Randle (Two-Way) - 84

Gold

Kendall Marshall (Small Ball) - 83
Joel Embiid (Defensive) - 83
Steve Blake (Two-Way) - 82
Aaron Gordon (Big Man) - 82
Brandon Rush (Small Ball) - 81
Ryan Kelly (Shooting) - 81
Glenn Robinson III (Shooting) - 80
John Henson (Two-Way) - 80
Mike Miller (Defensive) - 79
Sam Dekker (Shooting) - 79

To complete the Gold Campus Heroes set, users need 10 Campus Heroes collectibles and a Gold trophy to get either a Gold or Elite player. For a guaranteed Elite player, the set requires 10 Gold Campus Heroes players and two Elite trophies.

NBA Live Mobile is available for free download on Google Play and the App Store.