This game suffered a regression, in an update it started depending on three microsoft libraries which were not implemented in wine-proton. So I opened a bug report for documenting that regression and a friend (EsdrasTarsis) helped by developing patches for two of these libraries and reusing a wine patch for the third one. The bug report is here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/4969 -- and the patched proton that can run this game is here: https://github.com/Patola/wine/releases/tag/6.3-pickupbasketball -- if you are reading this protondb report months after it has been created, it is likely that the current proton version already implemented this fix.