[Top 10] NBA 2K21 Best Badges That Are Great

GOAT- tier skill incoming


10. TIGHT HANDLES

Tight Handles is a badge for any build that has a decent dribbling rating. Watch your player handle iso dribbling opportunities with ease, skill, and finesse.

This is a badge your gonna want if you want them dribbling highlights. We’re talking about the ultimate badge for Kyrie and Iverson fans who want to drop defenders with ease. If you want to get your opponent looking silly, from all the stumbles and falls you need this badge

Why TIGHT HANDLES  Is Great:

  • Get more ankle-breaking animations with this badge in the arsenal
  • Make Iso dribbling situations turn more in your favor
  • Ultimate combination with other shot-creating badges

TIGHT HANDLES  full details: 

  • Improves a player’s ability to break down their defender. Increases a player’s ball-handling ability in size-up situations, making it easier to break down the on-ball defender.
  • Requires: PG, SG, SF: Ball Handle 72 (GOLD) 92 (HOF); PF: Ball Handle 54 (GOLD) 69 (HOF); C: Ball Handle 51 (GOLD) 67 (HOF).

 

9. QUICK FIRST STEP

Always stay one step ahead of the opposing team.

Quick First Step is a super easy badge to trigger and use. Quick First Step simply means you get a quick speed boost of your triple threats and catches, which can easily get your defender off guard

It’s always fun seeing your super athletic players get simple buckets through their speed and quickness. This badge allows you to play like prime Rose, and Lebron just barrel through to the rim.

Why QUICK FIRST STEP Is Great: 

  • Catch defenders off guard with intense bursts of speed
  • The threat of a fast drive opens up your game with ease
  • Gets you nice inside driving lanes for lays, or passes out to open shooters

QUICK FIRST STEP full details: 

  • Provides more explosive first steps out of triple threat and size-ups. When driving out of triple threat or after a size-up, ball handlers have access to quicker and more effective launches.
  • Requires: PG, SG, SF: Speed with Ball 74 (GOLD) 94 (HOF); PF: Speed with Ball 64 (GOLD) 81 (HOF); C: Speed with Ball 55 (GOLD).

8. SPACE CREATOR 

Get open through your dribbling with ease through this badge.

Space Creator allows your dribble moves to get real effects for opening up your game. Even when players are in your grill you can get shots in if you have this badge in your bag

Yeah, this badge lets you play like prime Harden. Watch your opponent struggle to defend against you when they're all up in front of you.

Why SPACE CREATOR  Is Great:

  • Watch your stepback become 100x more useful for consistent scoring
  • Stepback can get you open looks and at worst the opponents end up with light contests
  • Stepbacks aren’t always about open shots, this badge also opens up driving lanes, and open passing looks to teammates.

SPACE CREATOR  full details:

  • Improves a player’s ability to create space from a defender. When performing any stepback move or shot, there’s a higher chance of successfully creating separation from the opponent.
  • Requires: PG, SG, SF: Ball Handle 58 (GOLD) 74 (HOF); PF: Ball Handle 55 (GOLD) 72 (HOF); C: Ball Handle 50 (GOLD) 70 (HOF).

 

7. GREEN MACHINE

The badge that rewards you for timing your shots

Green Machine is an absolute tool for shooters and non-shooters alike. Watch your shots go in way more with somehow even more consistent shooting.

Green Machine lets you go in incredible scoring runs when your shooting on streaks. You’ll play and move like a prime, Korver, Curry, or Klay. You’ll watch as you run that score up and get ungodly scoring numbers

Why GREEN MACHINE Is Great:

  • Makes greening from the 3-point range become way easier
  • Get rewarded for going on scoring streaks with consecutive 3 releases
  • Green Machine works for both 3-point and midrange, which means epic scoring runs

GREEN MACHINE full details:

  • Increases the bonus given for consecutive excellent releases. Gives an additional shot boost when consecutively achieving excellent releases on jump shots.
  • Requires: Mid-Range Shot or Three-Point Shot 74 (GOLD) 93 (HOF)

 

6. SNIPER

If you take fundamental shots you are going to hit.

Players who play the correct way as shooters get a huge boost. Getting open from the wing, getting open from 3, getting open for jumpers, and then shooting on timed shots make shots go in way more.

Go on insane runs when going in for shooting streaks. Play like Durant or every other insane-scoring player. Watch your player look like an absolute maestro with the ball and also drop 50 bombs with ease

Why SNIPER Is Great:

  • Green releases get rewarded with alot easier shots
  • Aiming stick users get the boost they deserve
  • Aiming shots your actually has a good effect on your shots

SNIPER full details: 

  • Boosts to well-aimed shots. Jump Shots taken with the aiming stick will receive a boost when aimed correctly.
  • Requires: Mid-Range Shot 69 (GOLD) 90 (HOF) or Three-Point Shot 71 (GOLD) 91 (HOF) or OVR 99

 

5. FEARLESS FINISHER

Fearless Finisher allows you to sky inside for layups and dunks, even under heavy contests from the opposing team, and still score. This badge works for any kind of shot near the rim whether it’s a score off a drive or an inside shot from the post.

Fearless Finisher is for those dudes who love seeing tough makes from the inside go in. If you're the type to scream and-1 as you get hit on your way to the rim, you should get this badge.

Why FEARLESS FINISHER Is Great:

  • Guards and Forwards driving in get more consistent scoring against defended attempts at the rim
  • Big men get a huge boost to inside scoring whether it is a score of the roll or an inside post-up shot, they get boosted
  • Watch your player make a ton more and 1 plays with this badge.

FEARLESS FINISHER full details:

  •  Improves a player’s ability to convert contact layups.
  • Strengthens a player’s ability to absorb contact and still finish. Also reduces the amount of energy lost from contact layups.
  • Requires: Driving Layup 64 (GOLD) 82 (HOF) or OVR 98

 

4. DIFFICULT SHOTS

Hit the shots even with a defender right on you

Difficult shots allow you to make even the toughest shot attempts. We’re talking off the dribble pull-ups, fades, and stepbacks, all these shots of the heavy dribble moves get a boost as you score inside.

Difficult shots are the badge for any Kobe fan. If you’re someone who loves seeing players like Kobe, T-Mac, or KD get buckets through their pull-ups and highly skilled shooting even with hands in their face, and think you also want to do that you should use this badge.

Why DIFFICULT SHOTS Is Great:

  • Hit pull-ups with ease and at a higher clip
  • Stepbacks become even deadlier with this badge
  • Any kind of dribble move chained to an open jumper has a really good chance of going in.

DIFFICULT SHOTS full details:

  • Improves the ability to shoot difficult shots off the dribble. High-difficulty jumpers such as hop steps, spins, stepbacks, and pull-ups receive a shot percentage boost.
  • Requires: Mid-Range Shot 72 (GOLD) 92 (HOF)

 

3. INTIMIDATOR

Watch people get too scared to even try to shoot whenyou guard them with this badge

Intimidator is a terror on the defensive end. Intimidator simply makes contest way more effective, weakening you opponents overall game with relative ease.

If you're a player who loves to troll his opponents you need to have this badge. This badge is going to frustrate the heck out of your opponent s as they make miss after miss, you and your whole team are going to get crazy rebounding numbers too with all those misses to collect.

Why INTIMIDATOR Is Great:

  • Contests become even more effective with this badge
  • The greatest counter to any build with deadeye or sniper
  • Players with weak badges stand no chance

INTIMIDATOR full details:

  • Intimidates offensive players causing them to miss shots more often. Offensive players have less success shooting when contested by players with this badge. Also boosts the shot defense ratings when tightly guarding an opponent.
  • Requires Block 74 (GOLD) 94 (HOF)

 

2. BLINDERS 

Shrug off the defense and bury your shots anyway

Blinders is a badge that makes any defensive attempts from the side or back become useless. Blinders literally make any saving defensive attempt from other areas become utterly pointless

As much as we love players that show emotion and give their all there’s also something about dudes who are chill as they come and act like it on the court. You become a silent assassin unmoved by the defense like a Kawhi Leonard, or a Tim Duncan with this in your bag

Why BLINDERS Is Great:

  • Side contests are now ineffective and do nothing against you
  • Getting separation is now even more effective and getting clean open shots
  • Even if defenders do get a contest it’s usually  a lot weaker

BLINDERS  full details: 

  • Becomes unfazed by defenders from the side. Jump shots taken with a defender closing out in their peripheral vision will suffer a lower penalty.
  • Requires Mid-Range Shot or Three-Point Shot 66 (GOLD) 84 (HOF)

 

1. CLAMPS

Put the stops on the opposing team

Clamps is the ultimate 1-on-1 defense badge, we're talking easy stops, picked-up dribbles, and a better overall wall on defenders. Defenders have a hard time getting anywhere if you're there guarding them with this badge.

Defensive highlights are just as sexy as the offensive highlights. A good stop, steal and block, is just as entertaining as a spin move or a dunk. For players who truly appreciate getting stops on good players and frustrating the opposing team, this badge is for you.

Why CLAMPS Is Great: 

  • Watch your opponent get absolutely stopped if they even try driving in
  • You’ll be sticking to your mark like glue if you have this badge.
  • Hip checks and hands-up contests are even more effective with this badge in your quiver

CLAMPS full details:

  • Boosts the ability to stay in front of the ball handler on the perimeter. Defenders have access to quicker cut-off moves and are more successful when bumping or hip-riding the ball handler.
  • Requires: Perimeter Defense 80 (GOLD) 94 (HOF)
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