Of all the offerings in NBA 2K17, MyTEAM's three-on-three Blacktop mode is both the best and the worst of all worlds.
At its best, Blacktop is a quick and compelling game of strategy that forces you outside your comfort zone as a gamer and basketball-minded individual. At its worst, Blacktop is a game of chance whose outcome is decided before it even starts.
This can be a bummer, but you can take steps to make sure you enter each Blacktop encounter with as few weaknesses as possible by picking the right cards, and the following is my ranking of the 30 most Blacktop-specialized player cards I've played with or encountered on the court.