NBA STREET Homecourt

As the achievement description spells out, the way to get this achievement is to create a second character and level him up to Level 10 after your first one reaches that milestone.

Unfortunately you cannot use the gear you unlocked with the first player with this second one, but since you have already leveled up a player to Level 10, the second time through will be easier because you know the game so much better. I got it done in about 2 hours, 15 minutes.

I advise creating the second character and leveling him up to 10 before you finish the last couple of achievements, because when you get your primary character to level 20 and you get to play for that last tournament achievement, the last thing you will feel like doing is going back to square one to get this one.

I went for this achievement after my primary guy was at level 15, and I am glad I did, because it felt great when I went back to the primary game and when that last achievement popped up, to know the game was complete.

The achievement itself is pretty obvious -- create two "created ballers" and level them up to Level 10. You can do this without playing any tournaments (which can be long to play and short on XP). Obviously, this is much easier on "Easy" difficulty. Your Level 15 / Homecourt Challenge player, of course, counts as one of the two players; I went back to get the second Level 10 player, and found it MUCH easier the second time around, though a bit frustrating during levels 1-5.

Continuously play all of the challenge events, including the "Court Access" events. This will continually increase the level of competition, and will allow you to recruit new players and access gear.

Whenever you unlock gear, equip it. The bonuses are not huge, especially at lower levels, but they help shave a couple of challenges off of the total.

You start with some pretty weak teammates. Whenever you can recruit better players, do so. I generally played with a forward and a center as my teammates -- players with rebounding and dunking skills. I used Josh Childress with both created ballers -- he's fast enough to get down the court, rebounds well, dunks well, and shoots the 3 well (good for the shots-only events). I had a bona fide center as my other player, someone like Emeka Okafor or Drew Gooden.

For my created baller, I used a guard or forward. Once you reach Level 5, you can select a "freak" skill (a max stat skill) -- I strongly recommend selecting dunks. It will make it very easy to double dunk, and with your other players rebounding, you'll have a lot of outlet pass situations. Once I got my skill level up in the game (both my player and my gameplay skils), I was routinely winning matches with scores like 21-2 and 15-1.

Once you get comfortable playing the game, GameBreakers can be a great help, too. Nothing beats scoring 5 points on a triple dunk (and knocking one point off of their score as well).