LEVY’S PHOENIX SUNS DYNASTY
(A 2K11 Association Mode based on
Levy’s 1997-98 DLC and future updates)
THE TEAM
Every
franchise needs a few great players so I decided to get my hands on the big
guns especially since my team lost more games than it won.
The first
addition to the team was PG-Brook Thompson who is an average player but a much
needed backup point guard whom I assumed I could use later if one of my main
guards gets injured. He was signed as a free agent for 1 year at 1.96
million/year with the player’s option in the 2nd year. I am at the middle of
the season when I post this and B. Thompson didn’t do much except playing a few
minutes per game as a substitute in the fourth quarter when the team was
already losing. Later in the season, I traded him along with C-Charles Jones
(whom I acquired from Houston) for a 1998 2nd round pick and G-Vinny
Del Negro who was on San Antonio’s trade list.
Most of the
trades I’ve done were offered by the teams controlled by the CPU. I never
forced any trade on the CPU teams in order to keep the realism level high in my
game. As a lifelong Suns fan, I wanted to stay loyal to the real life Phoenix
Suns but some of these offers were too good to be refused. On 26/11 Milwaukee
offered me Ray Allen in exchange for FC-Antonio McDyess and a 2nd
round pick. At that time my starting SG (Rex Chapman wasn’t doing great), so I
took the offer. Who wouldn’t want a pure shooter on his roster?
The next trade offered to me was on
the 16/12 by the Houston Rockets who wanted a young guard-forward desperately
so they offered me PF-Charles Barkely and FC-Charles Jones for GF-Marko Milic
and my other starting power forward and really great FC-Danny Manning. I was
sad to see Manning leave but couldn’t resist to the idea of a “back to the
future” Phoenix Suns from 1993. I already had PG-Kevin Johnson and SF-Cedric
Ceballos on my roster so Chuck was the missing link, right? Or was it
Majerle…because the next thing I did on 14/1 was to trade SG-Rex Chapman back
to where he came from, the Heat, for none else than GF-Dan Majerle. Now my team
was about to bring back some sweet memories with Danny Ainge as coach who also
played in the 1993 NBA Finals against Chicago.
Another
trade I made was very subjective. My favourite Suns player of all time, Steve
Nash wasn’t very happy as the 3rd point guard behind Jason Kidd and
KJ so…I decided to part ways with my starter PG-Jason Kidd in exchange for a
player I always admired on and off the court, FC-Brian Williams aka Bison Dele from
Detroit Pistons who in real life died in mysterious circumstances in Tahiti
being probably killed by his money hungry brother – which was really a modern
Cain & Abel story.
And one last
notable acquisition was signing a giant who was a novelty in the NBA at the
middle of the 90s, the tallest player at 7’7’’ C-Gheorghe Muresan who in
reality was born not far from where I was born. He fit in perfectly and started
to dominate the boards and collect game MVPs one after another.
There were a
few minor injuries happening to my players this season: Marko Milic, John
Williams, Horacio Llamas-Grey, Chapman, Thompson, Ray Allen were all on the
injured list for 1-2 weeks. During SG-Ray Allen’s two weeks injury, my team had
the longest winning streak (8!) which can hardly make sense. Ray-Ray is my 3rd
best scorer and my team owes him the recovery at the beginning of the season.
But while he was out, other players stepped up.
At the
moment my team leaders are:
And my roster looks like this:
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