It’s that time of the year again: yet another edition of the popular NBA video game series, NBA 2K.
NBA 2K22 was released less than a week ago on September 10, and the talent of each and every NBA player has been given a numerical score on a scale from 0-99. Although players shouldn’t take too much meaning from these numbers — it’s a video game, after all — these ratings do, to a considerable extent, reflect a player’s progress and talent, relative to the other players in the league. “Calculated” based on a player’s numerous attributes — outside scoring, defending, and athleticism, to name a few — some of these ratings seem to be fair representations of how good a player is while other ratings are unreasonable, to say the least.