User Guide

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Life on the hardcourt begins from the NBA Live 2003 Main menu.
MAIN MENU
NOTE: Default options are listed in bold in this manual.
EA SPORTS EXTRAS
Credits: See who made NBA Live 2003 the best basketball game in the
world.
Season Preview: Take an inside peek at the all-star lineup from
EA SPORTS for 2003.
PLAY NOW—
STARTING AN EXHIBITION GAME
Go straight to the court in an Exhibition game between any two teams.
To start a Play Now game:
➥➥
From the Main menu, highlight PLAY NOW and press A. The Select Teams screen
appears.
SETTING UP THE GAME
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Skip all of the pre-game activities
and “Play Now” (➤ below)
EA SPORTS Extras: Get a Season
Preview and view game credits
Get in the game
by playing in more
advanced game
modes (➤ p. 22)
Load or save your
game, or change
your controller
configurations
(➤ p. 31)
Get the scoop
with Basic and
Advanced
Freestyle stick
tutorials
(➤ p. 28)
Manage your
rosters and take
full control of
a team or check
out player, team,
and user stats
(➤ p. 28)
SELECT TEAMS SCREEN
Select the teams for the next game.
Selecting the Teams
➥➥
To run a team for the upcoming game, press / to move the controller
icon beside the team logo of the team you wish to control. If a team doesn’t have
a controller icon positioned beside it, the CPU controls that team.
➥➥
To play with teams other than the defaults (Nets vs. Lakers), highlight the current
team logo and press / to scroll through the rest of the teams in the
league. Pull F to select a team at random.
➥➥
Press G to continue on to the Select Jerseys screen.
User Profiles
➥➥
Keep track of your individual game stats for every contest played with the help
of a User Profile. You can create a User Profile by pulling E from the Select Team
screens. For more information, ➤ User Profiles on p. 21.
Starting Lineup
➥➥
To adjust your starting lineup, press D. For more information, ➤ Roster
Management on p. 28.
Away team
Team ranking
Press B or H
to go back to
the Main menu
Press D to
adjust the
starting lineups
Home team
Press J to
access the Help
menu
Pull E to access
the User Profile
screen (➤ p. 21)
User Controlled team
(Player 1)
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