One Day Kobe and Peng Mamba Will Go 1 on 1 in NBA 2K10 on TikTok is a video game hack created by the artist in collaboration with ChatGPT. Using AI tools to modify the files and systems of NBA 2K10 (2009), the artist transforms a basketball game into an endless one-on-one match between the late Kobe Bryant and Peng Mamba, a Chinese influencer known for impersonating him.

Since Kobe’s death in 2020, his image has circulated across Chinese internet culture through fandom, parody, and dark humor. Peng Mamba reproduces Kobe’s appearance, gestures, and playing style in videos on Douyin, China’s counterpart to TikTok. NBA 2K10, which featured Kobe on its cover, was one of Peng Mamba’s favorite childhood games.

By modifying character models, behaviors, and rules, the artist brings Peng Mamba into Kobe’s virtual world. Wearing Kobe’s jersey, Peng Mamba can be controlled by visitors or compete autonomously when no one is playing. The match is programmed never to end, regardless of the score. Competition becomes a perpetual encounter between a deceased athlete and a living imitator whose identity depends on repeating the athlete’s image.

A virtual cameraman modeled after the artist follows Peng Mamba around the court, filming him with a smartphone. The footage appears live on an iPhone in the exhibition and is simultaneously streamed on Douyin. The computer screen presents the playable basketball game, while the phone recreates the vertical perspective of social media livestreaming. The artist enters the game not as a player, but as the person framing its spectacle, connecting interactive play with the mediated spectatorship of influencer culture.

The title rewrites a remark made by filmmaker Spike Lee while promoting NBA 2K10 in 2009: “One day Kobe and I will go 1 on 1 playing NBA 2K10.” Seventeen years later, the artist stages an encounter that can no longer happen in reality.

Rather than creating a new game, the work brings the media culture of 2009 into contact with contemporary AI, internet memes, and influencer economies, questioning how digital figures persist and how the boundaries between originals, imitators, performers, and audiences are redrawn.

《终有一天科比和鹏曼巴将在〈NBA 2K10〉里单挑并登上抖音》是一件由艺术家与ChatGPT协作完成的电子游戏篡改（hack）作品。艺术家借助人工智能工具修改2009年发行的《NBA 2K10》的程序与档案，将这款篮球游戏改造成已故NBA球星科比·布莱恩特与中国篮球网红鹏曼巴之间一场永不结束的单挑。

自科比于2020年去世后，他的形象在中国互联网中不断被挪用、戏仿和再创作，形成一种融合粉丝文化、模仿与黑色幽默的网络现象。鹏曼巴通过在抖音上模仿科比的外貌、动作与打球风格而为人所知。《NBA 2K10》不仅以科比为封面人物，也是鹏曼巴童年最喜爱的篮球游戏之一。

艺术家通过修改游戏的人物模型、行为与规则，将鹏曼巴带入科比的虚拟世界。身穿科比球衣的鹏曼巴既可以由观众通过手柄操控，也能在无人操作时自动继续比赛。无论比分如何，比赛都不会结束。竞技由此转变为一场永恒的相遇：一边是已经去世的运动员，另一边是通过不断重复其形象而建立自身身份的模仿者。

作品还引入了一位以艺术家自身形象为原型的虚拟跟拍者。他手持智能手机，在球场上跟随鹏曼巴拍摄。画面实时呈现在展览现场的一台iPhone上，并同步在抖音直播。电脑屏幕保留篮球游戏的可交互视角，手机屏幕则再现社交媒体直播的竖屏观看方式。艺术家由此并非作为球员，而是作为组织这场表演影像的拍摄者进入游戏，将电子游戏的互动体验与网红文化中被媒介化的观看方式联系起来。

作品标题改写自美国导演斯派克·李在2009年宣传《NBA 2K10》时的一句话：“One day Kobe and I will go 1 on 1 playing NBA 2K10.” 十七年后，艺术家通过篡改游戏，让一场已无法在现实中发生的相遇得以上演。

作品并非创造一款新游戏，而是将2009年的电子游戏文化与当下的人工智能、网络迷因和网红经济联系起来，思考数字人物的形象如何持续存在，以及原型、模仿者、表演者与观众之间的边界如何被不断重塑。