NBA 2k10 is just a fun game overall... I've got an association going with the Bobcats. I really don't take this one as serious as my CH2k8 one, in fact I don't play any regular season games outside of maybe one or two against a stacked team or against Lebron/Kobe/Melo, but I play all the playoff games.
Started things off by trading away Gerald Wallace and Stephen Jackson and tanking the first season... Raymond Felton made the all-star team lol. Won the lottery and had the #1, #7, and #22 picks in the draft, promptly took myself at #1 (Only way I can have fun in an NBA franchise is if I'm in it), a pretty good PF Harmon at #7, and a SF Frazier at #22.
Now, when I made myself, I made myself in the vague likening of a mix between Kobe and Lebron. My overall was down (around an 87 because thats the highest I had seen a rook come in before), but I had a high potential so I figured I would progress. Well, my team didn't have much outside of me offensively for more than half the season, so I averaged around 35, 14, and 8 a game. Unrealistic as all hell but I could care less its fun for me.
I traded for Kevin Martin (Gave up Raymond Felton, and my 1st and 2nd round picks), as well as Josh Howard (he sucks down the road now but he's still a solid guy coming off the bench) and he gave me another guy to go to. We rolled to the #1 seed and swept the Magic in the first round. The Raptors took it to me in the second round though, I had no answer for Bargnani and Bosh down low and they took it in 6.
So, in the off-season, I brought in Shaq, and he's at least decent at helping Tyson Chandler try and slow down the other team's big man.
Around the NBA:
- Lebron won the MVP the first year, and then I won it last year.
- The Cavs have won 2 straight titles, beating the Lakers 4-3 in year 1 and 4-2 last year. This year's playoffs were especially interesting, they came back from down 3-1 to beat the Celtics in round 1, down from 3-1 to beat the Pacers in round 2, and down from 3-0 to beat the Raptors in the ECF, and then from down 2-0 to beat the Lakers... Lebron just wouldn't let 'em lose.
- Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook are beasts... they've carried the Thunder to the WCF for the past two years.