I was supposed to keep the team profitable for three seasons at one point. I was tasked with hiring a smart defensive coach and a smart offensive assistant coach within the next three years. The Surf went very young with their selection of players because they were under mandate from the owner to have an average expansion draft class of 25 years old.Įventually, more goals from owners come to your attention. 1 pick of the expansion draft and then they swooped up Allen Crabbe and his new contract when Portland left him unprotected. San Diego Surf are the latest addition to the NBA.įor the Surf, Michael Beasley was the No. That takes you right into a real life expansion draft like the NBA would hold if creating a new franchise to put in Seattle or St. The league will realign as needed depending on which city you add to the association. The San Diego Surf were added to the Western Conference and the New Orleans Pelicans were shifted to the East. Or building off the implementation of franchise relocation in 2K16, you can create all of the aesthetics yourself.įor me, the first time I jumped into MyGM mode I decided to save myself the time and just go with the preset team. They have inserted 10 preset teams with name, city, uniforms, and court design already figured out for you so you can jump right into roster construction.
When you begin MyGM mode, you can either take over an existing NBA team and meet the goals and wishes of an owner tailored to the real life counterpart without using names and likeness or you can choose to create an expansion team to bring into the NBA. But the 2K developers figured it out in order to bring about expansion to the Virtual NBA. In the words of Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker, "you know what is better than 30 NBA teams? Anywhere from 31-36 NBA teams." The process of overhauling the scheduling aspect of MyGM mode to allow the addition of anywhere between 1-6 teams while still having a balanced schedule, a lottery process that adjusts and doesn't skip a beat, and the proper coding in the playoffs is astonishing. (Note: There is also a MyLeague mode that is just like MyGM except you can control anywhere from 1-to-all NBA teams and veto decisions that happen. Let's go over those two additions in detail and then go over other things that have been upgraded or need improving moving forward: The way they've accomplished this is by adding two very important elements to this mode. The league is ever-changing, the options seem endless, and no two trips through MyGM mode will be the same.
In NBA 2K17, 2K Sports has eliminated the monotony that can permeate into MyGM or any sports franchise mode.
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It's still a lot of fun building teams, going through free agency, and making multi-team trades to shake things up, but the repetition can leave you exiting out of the mode and firing it up with a new team because there isn't enough versatility going deep into the decades. You get into a rhythm with going season to season, and once the familiar names have retired, it loses a bit of the luster. With the NBA 2K MyGM modes of the past, you've had a pretty robust franchise mode, but it has ultimately been quite repetitive. When you end up with that drafted superstar anchoring your team, you feel like your Sam Hinkie ways of acquiring more draft picks were all worth it. Throw me a franchise mode in which I can shape a roster, trade for extra draft picks, and try to find the gems of each new class of youngsters coming into the league, and I'll be unavailable for hours and wondering where the day went in no time. My favorite thing to do in any sports video game is build teams.