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Idk who to pick to continue the dynasty I have going. I have won the last 5 finals in a row, and haven't lost a playoff game in 3 years. I plan on resigning everyone important to the roster in FA. But I'm open to maybe trading some players if they are too expensive to keep.

Pretty sure bro started out at a 40+ ovr and a below 70 potential...

It was a horrible draft year (the only one without at least a 68 pot rookie in like 7 years) in which I won the lottery because why not...

I always had issues with this famous basketball quote, and it became even bigger since playing BBGM :).

Recently, I've realised that you can win an NBA Title with a sub-par defense (23rd in points allowed and 19th in dRTG), if your scoring is good enough.
I have a few other similar examples, maybe not as extreme, but with dRTG being outside of Top 10 not stopping be from winning it all.

However, I never won a title, while having a Top defense mixed with sub-par Offense.
So, it made me wonder - if BBGM is such a strong offense-oriented game, or if it's just me not doing it properly.

For the record - I had #1 ranked dRTG many times, but it's typically somehow connected to having a high OVR and free-scoring offense as well.

This game is so buns

Is there any reason not to take Ron Swift here

The draft only has 19 year olds and the next best player is only 37 overall. My pick is gonna be one of these two.

Jorma is a juicy point forward (that dribbling and passing 👀), whereas Emir could be a dominant big man.

I chose to rebuild the Heat on Hard difficulty and to my surprise I won the finals in year two! I traded away Bam, Herro, and Mitchell for lots of young assets. Zaccharie Risacher was involved in one of those trades as kind of a throw in for salary reasons but he turned out to be the best player on the team! I love seeing gritty young teams win on this game. It's crazy that this squad survived two game 7's!

Those many years of tanking let me draft a whole dynasty lol.

1992 - 1st Pick: Shaquille O'Neal (Eventually traded in 2002 for Vince Carter, Shaun Marion, and a few first round picks.

1993 - 2nd Pick: Chris Webber

1994-1995 - Tried to win something but didn't work.

1996 - 4th Pick: Kobe Bryant (Eventually traded in 2003 for the draft rights to LeBron, but Kobe was a free agent a year later and resigned with me anyways)

1997 - 1st Pick: Tim Duncan

1998 - 1st Pick (From ATL as part of a package years ago when I traded an aging Hakeem and deteriorating Chris Webber after 1994-1995 failed): Dirk Nowitzki

Also in 1998, I lost the lottery and dropped all the way to 9th, drafted Rashard Lewis

1999 - 3rd Pick: Baron Davis

2000 - somehow lost but oh well

2001 onwards were just easy championships after my young core finally developed

2006 - one of the picks I got from trading Shaq in 2002 became the 11th Pick here, which I used on Rajon Rondo.

While I am glad to have gotten the bittersweet achievement, it truly was bittersweet to win the finals and get fired. I took over the Grizzlies following the '26 playoffs and built a monster through the draft. I drafted two MVP's in Cam Boozer and Jalen Montonati. I knew the risk that I was running by exceeding the salary cap by massive margins. The owner kept warning me but I was determined to win a ring. After winning the 2031 finals I was fired and have watched as the beast I created continued dominating the league as the Grizzlies won 7 straight finals and made 9 straight appearances. Pain.

wtf i won 4 straight championships in normal mode and suddenly saw this before the new season