Yeah but microtransactions are in all their games though so It seems pretty clear to me that it's a 2K policy not this man's decision.One NBA 2K producer said this, not an entire publishing label.
Here the Senior Producer just agrees with what his execs are asking him to do. Like many people, he prefers money than doing the good choice. It's ok but at least accept it an take responsibility: "yes we're using microtransactions and we build our games around this mechanic but it helps us making even more profit with less efforts than making more and better game (yeah seems that the whole industry forgot that what sells at first is... good products! ).