What Kind of NBA Career Would You Have?
What Kind of NBA Career Would You Have?
You don't want to play hours of NBA 2k? Welcome! Answer some questions and find out what type of career you would have.
You don't want to play hours of NBA 2k? Welcome! Answer some questions and find out what type of career you would have.
Pick a type of player.
Your High-School career is coming to an end, so now it's time to choose a college. Where do you go?
Congratulations. You've finished your first year in college. Now you're allowed to enter this year's NBA Draft. Do you want to enter the Draft at the end of your freshman year, or do you want to wait a little longer and stay in college?
Time for the NBA Draft. When would you like to be selected?
You are selected 10th overall, so you'll spend the first years of your career in Milwaukee. Your first year has finished, what do you do now?
You spend your first 4 years in the NBA with the Bucks, but now (finally) you're a free agent. Only three teams show interest in you. Now decide:
Great! You're a starter for the season opener. But during the third quarter you feel something wrong. The pain comes from your right knee. What do you do?
As soon as the match finishes, you go with the doctors. They say it's nothing to worry about, but they recommend you to sit out for some weeks so your knee can rest. The final decision is yours.
After a succesful first year with your new team, you start preparing yourself for the second. Although, you start hearing rumours involving you and a trade to the Philadelphia 76ers. What do you want to do?
A week before the start of your sixth year in the NBA, you are traded to the Philadelphia 76ers for Nerlens Noel and a bunch of draft picks. You are in the so said "worst team in the NBA", how do you react?
Inexplicably, the team is a success. Your duo with Joel Embiid proves deadly for a lot of teams and you get a chance to play in the Playoffs as the 6th seed. However, your knee starts to hurt again and the doctors recommend you to sit out for, at least, the whole 1st round. The series is against the Celtics, so you decide.
The team keeps going and you reach the NBA Finals against the Warriors. Game 1 is very close. With 10 seconds remaining KD misses the dagger, so know you have a chance to win the game. You are down by 2. Decide your next play.
Although you manage to steal home court advantage by winning Game 1, the Warriors come back and win 4 straight games and the Finals. Now you're out of your contract. What is your next move?
Before making public your desicion about your future, you attend a charity game, but it proves to be a massive mistake: It's your knee again. But this time is worse, and your doctor says that you'll be lucky if you play next season. Philadelphia doesn't want to resign you any more, but there are no teams really interested in acquiring you. Now what?
Although Philadelphia remains reluctant to resign you, the San Antonio Spurs decide to sign you for the minimum. You'll have time to recover and you'll play for one of the best teams in the league. How do you think you would fit in their system?
After spending six years with the San Antonio Spurs and winning one ring alongside Leonard and Aldridge, your contract with San Antonio ends. You are a free agent now. What's your next move?
You retire from the NBA at the age of 36. And, although you are prepared to leave basketball aside, the Chinese league makes you an offer really difficult to decline. Are you willing to play one last year?
Bust of the Century
Bust of the Century
Well... That didn't turn out as you expected, did it? Maybe not playing professional basketball was the best decision, as your answers indicate thay you probably would've been remembered as a draft bust. Of course, you would still have your millions of dollars, but think if that is enough reward for being hated in the whole country.
CAREER LIKE: Greg Oden, Kwame Brown, Darko Milicic
Ruined by Injuries
Ruined by Injuries
Ouch. Sadly, your answers say that, if you had an NBA career, it probably wouldn't last for a long time. Maybe because of your off-court activities or your style of play, but the important here is that your body would never resist that kind of pressure. If it makes you feel better, your name will always come up as one of the biggest "What Ifs" of basketball.
CAREER LIKE: Tracy McGrady, Brandon Roy, Derrick Rose
Life-Long Backup
Life-Long Backup
Look on the bright side. If you had an NBA career, you would have some millions of dollars and the cities you played for would always remember you as the player that, although not playing many minutes, would always give 110% on the court.
CAREER LIKE: Matthew Dellavedova, Kyle Korver, Taj Gibson
Decent Player
Decent Player
Look on the bright side! You would've been a starter for the majority of your career. Whatever team you play for, they would remember you as a player who always was there when the moment required it.
CAREER LIKE: Monta Ellis, J.R. Smith, Jeremy Lin
All-Star and Nothing More
All-Star and Nothing More
After a long career, you would retire with a lot of All-Star Game appearences, maybe an MVP and who knows, maybe you could be inducted in the Hall of Fame. Sadly though, your name would always come up when fans talk about great players with no rings.
CAREER LIKE: Carmelo Anthony, Patrick Ewing, Karl Malone
Hall of Famer / GOAT
Hall of Famer / GOAT
MVPs... All-Star Game appearances... NBA Finals, some lost but many of them won... Rings in your hands... Hall of Famer... Congratulations, you could've made your case to be considered as one of, if not the best player of all time.
CAREER LIKE: Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James