A few ground rules there is no salary but I can't sign players who excessively exceed the cap like no Giannis supermax or Jokic or Wemby also no more then 3 trades a season to keep things balanced also no financial trade restrictions and no more NEW free agents then 1 per off-season so only one new acquisition at least no more then 1 rotational guys I can of course full out the bench

Now that that's out of the way let's look at how everything worked out

Year one we made two important trades 1st we traded our 2029 2030 and 2032 frp plus Ra Flemming for their frp from 2026 next we traded Jalen Green our 2026 frp and Oso for the jazz unprotected pick swap best for Phoenix and Kyle filppowski

We finished 44-38 as the 8 seed we beat the Lakers in the first play in game and were the 7 seed playing the two seed San Antonio Spurs and shockingly beat them in 6 games before getting floored by OKC in 5 games in the second round OKC beat Detroit in the finals in 7 games

Then we got super lucky in the off-season with the Washington pick conveying at 2 and us swapping our pick for the third overall pick with the jazz and with pick two we drafted Cameron Boozer and with the third pick we drafted Mikal Brown Jr

We completed the off-season with trading Dillon Brooks for Toumani Camara and a bench filler and resigned our guys made no new pickups this off-season of importance

Before year two our 5 was Brown Jr is Booker Dunn Boozer and Williams

With our bench being Gelespi Allen Camara Fillpowski and Malauch

We finished 45-37 as the 6 seed and played OKC round 1 and got bounced in the first round in 6 games the Mavs went on to beat the Hawks in the finals in 5 games

Devin Booker atp has 2 all NBA 3rd teams under his belt and Boozer won roty and Mikal Brown also made the first team

In the off-season we made a few bigger moves such as drafting two players at picks 20 and 25 and these were auto generated guys not real ones but then in free agency we made a big signing picking up Steph Curry as our big move to a 2 year deal with a player option between seasons we then accepted Ryan Dunn and Maulach options and moved on

Our starting 5 for the third season is

SCurry Booker Dunn Boozer Williams

And the backup 5

Brown Jr Gelespi Camara Fillpowski and Malauch

Are team had much higher overalls and played A LOT BETTER

We finished 63-19 and we're the 1 seed in round 1 we played the jazz and won in 6 games but we struggled against them bro smh then in round two we played San Antonio and beat them in 5 we are 2-0 against the spurs in the playoffs and then in the WCF we played the team that's bounced us twice OKC with a starting 5 of

SGA Herro Jdub Chet and Ayton with 4 great bench guys as well we proceeded to put belt to ass and beat them in 5 games and I was very surprised curry won WCF MVP

We then in the finals played tye 61-21 1 seed Knicks who casually signed Nikola Jokic when they lost Towns we played every game within 10 points but ultimately won the series in 6 and Booker was the finals MVP

Lemme know if you enjoyed this and if you want me to rebuild any other teams in NBA 2k26