NBA Street

The first installment in the NBA Street series, and was followed by NBA Street Vol. 2, NBA Street V3, and NBA Street Homecourt.

NBA Street is based on three-on-three street basketball. Aside from the basic structure of basketball, players try to collect trick points, which are scored through the use of almost every basketball game maneuver such as doing fancy dribble moves, faking out defenders, shot blocking, diving for the ball, and dunking. If a team fills their trick meter, they get to perform a Gamebreaker, which is a special shot that not only adds to their score, but it subtracts an amount from their opponents' score. The single player mode "City Circuit" involves making a user-created player, touring famous American locations and picking up teammates from NBA rosters along the way. The game has "arcade" style gameplay, similar to the NBA Jam series. Games use common streetball scoring, with two-point field goals worth one point and shots made from behind the 3-point line earning two. Instead of a time limit, the first team to score 21 points is deemed the winner. However, the winner must win by 2.

Twenty-nine NBA teams are playable, with rosters from around 2000 and 2001. However, only 5 players are available from each team. Michael Jordan, who announced his comeback from his second retirement with the Washington Wizards a few months after the PlayStation 2 release, is available on both the GameCube and PlayStation 2 versions. He was however removed as the "Final Challenge" in the GameCube version as he now played for the Washington Wizards in the game. Instead, the City Circuit ended once a player beat the Street Legend "Stretch". The game introduced several recurring characters called Street Legends, fictional basketball players who served as the series' bosses, each masterful in a particular aspect of basketball and representing a specific area of the United States. Their personalities and appearances were loosely inspired by real players, such as Stretch, the "cover athlete" who resembles Julius Erving in looks and abilities. However, he is not a parody, and the actual Erving appeared as the cover athlete in the sequel game, NBA Street Vol. 2.

With the game being based on a street ball style of basketball, EA invited Vancouver-based streetball group The Notic to do motion capture. The most notable member of the group was Joel Haywood, nicknamed "the King Handles".