The same will be happening to the Series 2 cards

 All-Star Game time in MT 2K23 has historically been a great opportunity for a reset in MyTeam. The market always crashes, and the card power creep will go nuclear as galaxy opals soon become the norm. So I've been doubling down on selling/flipping cards to try and earn MT and get my tokens up. I'm hopeful that after that appetizer of a token market update back in January, we'll get the real-deal update around the All-Star break.

Basically, this is 2K's chance to pull me back in.

So come on 2K, let's see a great new Spotlight Challenge series. Or some inspired Moments Challenges. Or new Dynamic Duos. Or an INSANE locker code. Or at least some??All-Star cards that will get everyone excited — I'm hoping Luka wins MVP of the All-Star Game (or Rising Stars Game) so we can get a pink diamond. Or wouldn't it be crazy if Dwight won the Slam Dunk? (Then I would feel vindicated for not working on his evolution card.)

Either way, I'm looking forward to the weekend. And as long as there are cool cards to try and rewarding challenges to play, I'll be back. Eventually.

From a personal standpoint, I don't hate that players take longer to shoot without Quick Draw, but it's undeniable how important it is when the game has been designed around green releases. Plus, defenders still recover with insane closing speeds so being able to quickly get shots off really is a major factor.

Nevertheless, Quick Draw has not made it onto most of these cards, and so it gives almost all of them a fatal flaw in this one area. And if it's not Quick Draw they're missing, then it's usually Clamps — or the fact that they get something like a Steady Shooter badge that no one even wants on their cards.

Now, on some level, I do understand this decision because 2K has mostly just brought over the players from the regular roster and imported them into MyTeam without many changes. This would be fine except the MyTeam ecosystem is not the PNO ecosystem. Changes do need to be made if they want these cards to be viable at all. Then again, as I also have said, the plan might be for these cards not to be viable.

After all, only a handful of the Series 1 cards see play. You'll see Karl-Anthony Towns and Kristaps Porzingis here and there. You'll see amethyst Giannis a bit, and maybe even an occasional Steph. But beyond those exceptions, everyone has moved on from Series 1 cards.

The same will be happening to the Series 2 cards. Who is viable? Well, I would argue not one player from this set is viable. However, that might be a little too harsh because it depends on the prices. If you can get ruby Klay Thompson for under 4K, fine. He's not great, and has HOF Steady Shooter, which is just bad. But at least he has HOF Quick Draw and gold Clamps. The pink diamond Giannis is another interesting one because he can play center. So you get what is probably the fastest eligible center in the game, but he's still stuck with Buy NBA 2K MTjust 3 HOF badges, which does not cut it in MyTeam for any other pink diamond.

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