Hardwood GM Basketball Manager

Basketball GM sim and franchise manager. Draft, trade, work the salary cap and build a dynasty. You do not play the games. You sit in the chair above them. Hardwood GM is a text-based basketball general manager sim about the part of the sport nobody films: the phone call from a rival GM, the contract year, the franchise player who wants to know what the plan is and will not take a non-answer. THE LOCKER ROOM IS THE GAME Every player has a personality: an Alpha Dog who needs the ball, a Company Man who buys in, a Ring Chaser counting the years he has left. Praise the wrong one and it lands as condescension. Ignore a complaint and it hardens into a trade demand. You get four Action Points a day, so you cannot talk to everyone, and the game knows it. RIVAL GMS WHO ACTUALLY CALL - Other clubs send real offers, answer your trade block and take a counter. Ask what it would take for any player in the league. - A trade machine that prices talent, age, upside and contract surplus, and refuses to let a pile of role players buy a superstar. - Three-team deals, a trade finder, cash considerations, sign-and-trades, and a February deadline that does not move. THE DRAFT IS A SEASON-LONG DEPARTMENT Your scouts work next June's class from opening night. A combine, private workouts that reveal the gym rat and the locker-room risk, and a lottery that rewards a real rebuild. A CAP THAT WORKS LIKE THE REAL ONE Salary cap, luxury tax and apron. Contracts rise each year. Waived players are paid in full or stretched. Your own free agents hold cap room until you re-sign or renounce them. Buyouts, two-way deals, an affiliate, a supermax for the star you drafted. MAKE THE CALL Watch your game's first three quarters, then make the coach's call for the fourth: ride the star, go small, tighten the perimeter. The call is a matchup read, never a boost. Set your tempo, pick a closing lineup, cap a player's minutes, and the coach may push back. A LEAGUE THAT LIVES WITHOUT YOU Rival clubs trade with each other. Stars test the market and switch clubs most summers. Coaches lose their jobs. The cap grows with revenue, the style of play drifts across eras, and the contract that looked enormous in your first season looks ordinary by your fifteenth. A FULL SEASON, EVERY SEASON 82 games, an in-season Cup with group nights and a knockout, All-Star weekend, a play-in for the last two seeds, a 16-team bracket, MVP and Finals MVP, and an owner with three mandates and a short supply of patience. A CAREER, NOT A SAVE FILE Get fired and the phone rings: other clubs make offers, each with its own owner and its own mess. Win enough and clubs come to you. Your reputation and job history follow you from club to club, and the Hall of Fame fills with players you drafted and had to let go. Every club has a history page: titles, legends, retired numbers. READ THE NUMBERS OR IGNORE THEM Shot charts for both teams in every recap, scoring by quarter, the swing of the lead. True shooting, usage, live MVP and Rookie of the Year ladders, career leaders, a record book, and a ranked argument about the greatest career the league has produced. Every season ends with a yearbook. YOUR CAREER IS A FILE YOU KEEP Back any career up to a file you keep wherever you like, and restore it on a new phone. No account, nothing uploaded to us. Ads are optional, rewarded and never interrupt you: watch one for a rewind, extra Action Points or a scouting trip, or never watch one at all. The optional packs add new ways to start a career, challenge rules, cosmetics, editors and deeper history. None of them changes a rating, a contract or a result, and every pack can be tried for one career before you buy. The Everything Bundle is the simple way in: one purchase holds every pack in the game, and each new pack lands in it the day it ships. Fictional league, fictional players. Every career generates a fresh world.