Blazers win! Blazers win! Blazers win!

[SlyPokerDog]

You Aren’t Ready For The Insanity ‘NBA 2K17’ Is Predicting For This Season

With NBA 2K17 season in full swing, and the NBA regular season set to tip off on Oct. 25, this felt like as good a time as any to put NBA 2K17’s season simulation algorithm to the test. I went into this expecting chaos, and boy, did we get chaos.


I simulated one season. I let NBA 2K17’s simulator handle everything from trades, to coaching hires to coaching firings to injuries to wins to losses to playoffs results, etc. This is my way of qualifying what you’re about to see. In other words, don’t shoot the messenger. This is NBA 2K17’s doing, not mine!

An injury to Stephen Curry made the Warriors vulnerable in NBA 2K17’s playoffs, but beyond that, the Portland Trail Blazers just dominated the competition. They took care of the Grizzlies, swept the Warriors, took down the Clippers in seven games, and then dismantled the healthy Cleveland Cavaliers without home-court advantage in six games to win the NBA Finals. What a time to be (virtually) alive.


The Portland Trail Blazers are so much fun that I don’t have it in me to trash this prediction. If they went on this sort of run, it would be on the backs of two of the NBA’s most exciting young stars in Damian Lillard and C.J. McCollum. It would be so out of nowhere, so unpredictable, that I feel compelled to roll with it. Let’s go Portland. I’m with you.


Is it going to happen? Unlikely. Would I root for it? Hell yes.


NBA Finals MVP – Damian Lillard

I mean, duh. If the Blazers win the NBA Championship, it means Damian Lillard played out of his mind. Thirty-two point 2 points per game against the defending champion Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals is a Finals MVP performance, no doubt. I wouldn’t bet against him.

http://uproxx.com/dimemag/nba-2k17-predicts-nba-season/8/

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

I don't really feel it's all that unrealistic....

 

[Chris Craig]

You know, i'm liking that game more and more

 

[riverman]

I like seeing the Blazers get some respect and they could make the finals...I think the Cavs may have trouble repeating though...this may be Toronto's year in the east

 

[julius]

OKC is the 2nd seeded team? That's harder to believe than Portland being 4th.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

I don't really feel it's all that unrealistic....

I haven't wanted to say anything, because I don't want to jinx it... but I'm right with you.

 

[riverman]

Fact is this season is going to be different......I think we can lock up the 3 seed in the west

 

[HailBlazers]

40 YEARS

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

I haven't wanted to say anything, because I don't want to jinx it... but I'm right with you.

Every season... You just have to be "right there". I feel like we'll be around the enchilada, and all is takes it an opportunity. I feel like the talent is there, it's just a matter of being opportunistic and taking advantage. And we can be that team.

 

[THE HCP]

OKC is the 2nd seeded team? That's harder to believe than Portland being 4th.

Or the Jazz and Hornets being the LAST place teams in each conference.

 

[THE HCP]

#48WinsFAMS

 

[Orion Bailey]

Sweeping GSW though? WOW!

 

[BonesJones]

Fact is this season is going to be different......I think we can lock up the 3 seed in the west

I think we could lock up the 2nd seed. The Spurs lost 3 of their top 4 frontcourt players, and Parker and Ginobli are only getting older, so I think they're v catchable. The Clippers lost Aldrich and Green, and replaced them with Felton and Speights. I don't think they got any better, and probably got worse.

So if everything goes well I think the 2nd seed is a possibility.

 

[theprunetang]

Or the Jazz and Hornets being the LAST place teams in each conference.

That doesn't seem that far off to me actually. I think both the Jazz and Hornets are going to end somewhere in the 6-8 spots in their respective conferences.

 

[theprunetang]

And I think the Blazers are going to go down to the wire with the Clips and Spurs for the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th seeds.

 

[THE HCP]

That doesn't seem that far off to me actually. I think both the Jazz and Hornets are going to end somewhere in the 6-8 spots in their respective conferences.

Thats what I mean, they have them 15th!!

 

[theprunetang]

Thats what I mean, they have them 15th!!

Ahh. I misunderstood you. It wouldn't shock me if either team missed the playoffs though. Especially if either team suffers injuries to "star" players, if you could call any of their players stars.

 

[Chris Craig]

Every season... You just have to be "right there". I feel like we'll be around the enchilada, and all is takes it an opportunity. I feel like the talent is there, it's just a matter of being opportunistic and taking advantage. And we can be that team.

Wait, so the NBA championship is a Mexican meal?