I'll be honest, I don't have much experience with portable sports games. When I play a sports game, it's usually a situation where I'm going to be stationary for a good long while. 

Well, guess what? It turns out portable games are pretty strong in their own quirky way!
 
Read on after the jump!
NBA 10: The Inside, for PSP, is not a very strong basketball simulator, let's immediately cut out all pretenses of that idealogy. What it is, is a very VERY fun basketball game to play in short bursts while on the go, which is the very goal of a portable game.
 
While the build I have to play with is by no means perfect (Teams are still playing with last year's rosters and uniforms) the core gameplay is still solid enough for me to give this a thumbs up. Graphically, it's perfectly sound for a handheld device, and the Ladder Mode challenge is an amazingly fun time killer, and I should know, I've spent much of my last pay period at my full time job dee-stroy-ing the Lakers. Technically, it naturally falls behind it's bigger brother on the PS3 as this takes the more arcade scoring approach to fine basketball.
 
The Ladder Mode isn't the only decent game mode this title brings to the table either, NBA 10: The Inside is also bringing an ok franchise mode and a multitude of crack-like mini-games that are liable to get me fired. I love the pinball mini-game and the various other modes that act like basketball infused versions of risk (conquest) and breakout!
 
When I want to play something on the go I'd like for it to be short, sweet and accesible and NBA 10: The Inside is all of these things wrapped into a neat little package.
 
Pros: An incredible amount of gaming choices crammed into this UMD; light, arcadey basketball fun.

Cons: Player models leave a little something to be desired, B-Ball afficionados will get bored of 50 pt.  games out of their SF and C

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