Take-Two Interactive partnered with the National Basketball Association (NBA) to create the NBA 2K League, using the "NBA 2K" game series. It is the first esports league to be operated by a professional sports league, and the NBA sought to have a League team partially sponsored by each of the 30 professional NBA teams. Its inaugural season is set to start May 2018 with 17 teams. Similarly, EA Sports and Major League Soccer (MLS) established the eMLS in 2018, a league using EA's "FIFA" series.