Finishing

Aerial Wizard

Aerial Wizard Badge Details

Aerial Wizard helps you finish Alley-Oops by making the catches and the passes easier. The timing window also gets a slight boost, but normally Alley-Oops should be wide open otherwise you'll get taken out of the animation frequently.

Tier Unlocks by Height

Height	Tier	Height	Tier
Height 5'9	Tier 2	Height 6'7	Tier 2
Height 5'10	Tier 2	Height 6'8	Tier 2
Height 5'11	Tier 2	Height 6'9	Tier 2
Height 6'	Tier 2	Height 6'10	Tier 2
Height 6'1	Tier 2	Height 6'11	Tier 2
Height 6'2	Tier 2	Height 7'	Tier 2
Height 6'3	Tier 2	Height 7'1	Tier 2
Height 6'4	Tier 2	Height 7'2	Tier 2
Height 6'5	Tier 2	Height 7'3	Tier 2
Height 6'6	Tier 2	Height 7'4	Tier —

NBA2k26 Finishing Badges

Aerial Wizard

Increases the ability to finish an alley-oop from a teammate, or putback an offensive rebound.

On a Budget

Silver

Get at least Silver.

Sweet Spot

Gold

Get at least Gold.

Aerial Wizard Test Details

To test Aerial Wizard we attempted 1,200 putbacks and looked at the putback rate with each level of Aerial Wizard.

Aerial Wizard Test Results

Putback Rate Tested at Badge Level Requirement on HoF Difficulty:

Legend = 78.5% Dunk; 21.5% Miss
HoF = 71% Dunk; 29% Miss
Gold = 65.5% Dunk; 34.5% Miss
Silver = 56% Dunk; 44% Miss
Bronze = 43.5% Dunk; 56.5% Miss
None = 34% Dunk; 66% Miss

Each badge level provides a fairly linear boost, but the biggest jump from the previous badge level happens from Bronze to Silver. We can see a 12% increase in putback rate for a total of 56% success rate. Going from Silver to Gold provides another solid boost by almost 10% for a total of 65.5%. At HoF the boost is effective, but it starts to plateau slightly. But when we get to Legend, this can more than double your putback success rate when compared to having no badge. And that's about a 45% swing in success rate.

AttrAttribute	BrzBronze	SlvSilver	GldGold	HoF	LgdLegend
AttrAttribute Driving Dunk	BrzBronze 64	SlvSilver 70	GldGold 80	HoF 89	LgdLegend 97
AttrAttribute Standing Dunk	BrzBronze 60	SlvSilver 75	GldGold 84	HoF 92	LgdLegend 98

How to Use the Badge Unlock Tool

If the first column of the row is green the attribute is REQUIRED to unlock the badge.
If the first column of the row is yellow then that category is one of multiple options to meet the requirement and there are alternative yellow rows you could choose to unlock this badge.