How it works

Points come from playing - only on the day you play. Yesterday's puzzles are gone; there is no backfilling last week. Showing up every day is the whole game.

Spending points on boosts never touches your leaderboard - it only counts what you earned.

Points buy boosts on your player card. Ratings decide how hard your player carries in career matches - a better card scores more, defends better, wins more. Boosts are cheap through the 60s, cost real points through the 70s and early 80s, superstar prices from 85, and legend prices in the 90s. Your primary class trains its two stats 20% off, your secondary 10% - and where both classes want the same stat the discounts stack, so it trains 30% off.

Weekly missions pay free attribute points: three drop every Monday, each themed to a stat - finish one and claim the boost on your card or the career hub.

The class ladder beside your boosts hands out titles for your build. Each tier asks you to raise its two signature ratings, then prove it in a match - a big game inside your last handful. Claim it for the flair: bragging rights, not a stat boost.

Your position and classes lock the moment you spend points on a boost - the class discount is what a re-pick could game. Free mission points don't lock anything, so claim away. Every ring your career wins lives on the card forever.

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You suit up with nine signed pros - the four who start fill the court around you, the other five ride the bench. Keep them developed and keep showing up - a deeper, in-form roster wins more.

Your franchise plays a real 82-game NBA season against all 30 teams - two matches a day, at 00:00 and 16:00 UTC (8pm and noon ET). Each match plays out live over 48 minutes, quarter by quarter, with play-by-play. Miss it and the box score is waiting.

Finish top 8 in your conference and you're in the playoffs: best-of-7 rounds all the way to the NBA Finals. Win it all and a championship banner hangs on your franchise - and a ring goes on every card that suited up.

Every playoff team plays its own best-of-7 on the same two-a-day cadence you do, so the rest of the bracket takes real days to settle - and you won't know who you play next until somebody has actually won it. Sweep your series in four while the other side sits at 2-2 and your franchise waits for them to finish. Your matches pause until the matchup is set, the hub says exactly what it is waiting on, and the full bracket - both conferences, every round, updating twice a day - is one tap away the whole time.

When the season ends - champion, eliminated, or lottery-bound - the next one tips off after midnight UTC. Same franchise, fresh 82. Ratings carry over; the history stays on your record.

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You're the franchise player, so management listens to you. The team page lays your five out on a half-court, by position - sub out exactly the slot you tap, pick the slot when you sub in, or fill an open hole straight from the bench. Position matters: every starter lined up away from his natural spot costs your five -2.5 strength, on every lineup - see how team OVR is calculated. The strength breakdown next to the court itemizes every term the sim counts.

Minutes are yours to spread too - tag each starter heavy, normal, or light (~36 / 26 / 14 minutes) to decide who takes the shots. And spend points to train any teammate's skills right on his row; signature stats train cheaper.

Bench a good teammate too long and he gets restless - first a warning, then he walks. And every so often management finds a prospect who wants in - sign him and pick who makes way, or pass. Want the search to be less random? Send the scouts after a specific class - a report with two candidates lands a few days later.

Every teammate is on a contract - his “signed through” season shows on his card. When a deal is up entering a season, you get a decision window: re-sign him or he walks - and if you ignore it, he walks anyway. Watch the red countdown on the hub.

Need a body beyond the scouts? The recruitment hub has two more doors: the transfer market, where you bid points on pros from other players' franchises (and field bids on yours - you pocket a cut), and the G League board, where fresh legs sign for points and suit up from tomorrow's games.

It all lands in your front-office news feed on the career hub: signings, walkouts, cuts, and the occasional surprise.

Somewhere out there is a player the league already knows. You hold one at a time - no limit over a career, you just can't have two at once - pick your target on the recruitment page and his front office starts watching. You can switch targets once a day until you commit.

They don't take calls from nobodies. Every target carries a checklist, and the bar scales with who he is - chasing a star means 85 overall, 30 wins, a head-to-head win over his team, and 4,000 points banked. Starters and the under-the-radar tier ask for less. The bars fill as you play; there's nothing to claim.

Clear the checklist and the package builder opens: offer one or two of your own guys plus points, and management rules on whether it clears their asking price. A rejection comes back with what was missing - and their price is re-drawn every week, so the same package can land seven days later.

Career Mode is a simulated universe. Trades, matches, and box scores here are fictional and live only in your league; ratings are airball's own assessment.

Add friends on the friends page - by username or a share link. Then hit Add a friend on any roster spot: every friend shows up with the one right move - a free agent gets an in-app invite (they accept from their career hub), a friend on another roster gets a poach offer. Their live card drives the slot: the more they play and boost, the better your team; ghost the app and they're cold on your bench.

Moonlighting pays: a friend earns a cut every match their card suits up - win or loss, just a bigger cut on a win. Your card can ride ONE friend's bench at a time, and every stint is a real contract: locked for 20 matches (a market deal locks for its own term) before you can walk or be poached away. Friends sign through the current season; re-sign them cheap or they hit free agency.

Every offer needs your say-so - a friend only joins when you tap accept. And beware: a friend on your bench can quietly tank your games for a stretch. You won't know until the front office finds out - but once caught, they wear a snake tag everywhere, forever.

Everything you play is training - a fresh slate of seventeen drops at midnight in your local time, and Possession is there whenever you want it. Here's how each one works.