NBA 2K16 Adds '04-'05 Phoenix Suns & '05-'06 Miami Heat to List of Classic Teams

[ZB9]

Quote: Originally Posted by LeBronistheKing

Agreed in fact I feel like the next Western Conference team revealed should be one of the past Spurs champion teams, maybe even the 2007 team. I feel like the Eastern Conference team should be a LeBron team and since there are already two classic Heat teams represented, that leaves one of the Cavaliers teams. The 2007 team was the most accomplished (Eastern Conference champions) but the 2009 Cavaliers team was the best team in the first LeBron Cavaliers era. The Lakers are more than fairly represented in the game so that is why I say the west team should be a Spurs team and the East team a LeBron Cavaliers team.

That would be cool. How many teams are left to be revealed?

[ZB9]

Quote: Originally Posted by SaruAqua

I already previously mentioned that Golden State was a bad matchup for Dallas. They always have been. I still remember Dirk dropping 50+ against them in '06, yet they lost because of a Jason Richardson spinning game winning 3. My problem was never GS being a tough opponent for Dallas. They actually finished the '07 season winning 16 of their last 20 games. My problem was the fact that the 67 win Mavs got beat in the 1st round and got pummelled in the 25 point rout in game 6 with the MVP (Dirk) going 2-13, shooting 38% for the entire series, and getting outplayed by Josh Howard and Jason Terry (debatable) let alone Stephen 'Captain Jack' Jackson. Edit: actually mentioned how good GS was to another user, my bad.

Yea that was a brutal first round match up, something that eastern top seeds know nothing about. That was a bad series for Dirk but you can find a bad series for every top player.

[georgiafan]

Quote: Originally Posted by ZB9

That would be cool. How many teams are left to be revealed?

Two teams left

[BA2929]

Quote: Originally Posted by CookNBA03

If Wayne Simien isn't on the Heat's '06 roster, I'm not buying.

Ask him on Twitter. Wayne's a really nice guy and would probably answer you if he's actually in the game.


https://twitter.com/waynesimien

[midwestking100]

Quote: Originally Posted by SaruAqua

I'm actually surprised that 90% of you guys are sleeping on the late 00's B2B champion Lakers. Phil Jackson, Kobe, Gasol, Fish, Bynum, Ariza and/or Artest (depending on year), Odom, Brown, Farmar, Powell and Vujacic. As much as I hated that team (love Kobe, though), they along with the '05/'07 Spurs deserve to be in the game. Still can't get over how OP they were from 2K9-2K12, ESPECIALLY 2K11 (nikkas were godlike).

Personally i prefer the 09 lakers than the 10 lakers. Not only did the 09 lakers win 65 games during the season but they were more tougher during the playoffs. Third best lakers squad of that decade.

[CookNBA03]

Quote: Originally Posted by BA2929

Ask him on Twitter. Wayne's a really nice guy and would probably answer you if he's actually in the game. https://twitter.com/waynesimien

I was joking but I don't have a Twitter.

[CookNBA03]

Quote: Originally Posted by VDusen04

Sidenote, remember when Joe Johnson taught us all once again why trying to dunk with two-hands and hang can be risky business when taking off of one foot, joining the likes of Andrew Bogut, Vladimir Radmonovic, and Jackson Vroman as illustrative perils of such strategy? Take notes, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5F75fvHshM

It's more of where you take off from, did it in practice and fell on my back lol.

[SaruAqua]

Quote: Originally Posted by midwestking100

Personally i prefer the 09 lakers than the 10 lakers. Not only did the 09 lakers win 65 games during the season but they were more tougher during the playoffs. Third best lakers squad of that decade.

Nah, I'd prefer the '10 team. You have to remember that they won 57 games with Gasol/Kobe missing a combined 26 games as opposed to the 1 game that Gasol missed in '09. Also, they had a tougher P/O run but here's my personal opinion:


'10 Thunder > '09 Jazz
'09 Rockets > '10 Jazz
'10 Suns >> '09 Nuggets
'10 Celtics >>>> '09 Magic


Fwiw, their '09 opponents won 7 more regular season games than their '10 opponents but that was more due to Boston "playing possum" and only winning 50 games, which I might have been the only person aside of Celtics fans that thought so at the time. People were actually claiming that the Cavs were going to beat them in the P/O (EL OH EL), especially after Wade's 33/6/7 on 56%FG/40%3PT proved to not faze them. They were greater and deeper than the '09 Magic who got pushed to 7 games by a KG-less Celtics squad.


Just the '10 Lakers facing the Celtics alone made the run much more impressive, albeit those 21 4th Q FT's along with the questionable calls in G7 were crucial, IMHO. I'm not even going to use Perkins' injury because they're a part of the game. Though I hate but respect that particular Lakers team, I'd love to use them again in a basketball game.