Sometimes, the file is truly gone—wiped from the hard drive entirely. Leo found that he could manually replace it. The Process: How To Fix rld.dll Failed To Load - Full Guide

Purchase NBA 2K13 on Steam or a physical disc. Ironically, the legitimate Steam version (which uses standard Steam DRM rather than SecuROM) never throws the rld.dll error because that file doesn't exist in the official release. If you own the game legitimately, simply uninstall the cracked version and download the official Steam copy.