Following the announcement of the 2025 All-NBA teams and other major awards, basketball fans are actively debating the results. An interesting point of comparison is how these selections align with player ratings in the NBA 2K25 video game. Does the game`s assessment match reality, or do discrepancies exist that could spark further discussion?
For the All-NBA First Team, there`s significant agreement between the real-world voting and the game`s rankings. Nikola Jokic, Giannis Antetokounmpo, and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, who also won MVP, are indeed the game`s highest-rated players, all holding a 98 Overall Rating (OVR).
However, the picture becomes slightly different for the remaining two spots. First-team selection Jayson Tatum is rated 95 OVR, placing him within the game`s top ten but still below players like Luka Doncic and LeBron James. Donovan Mitchell, also a First Team member, has a 94 OVR rating, making him the tenth-highest rated player in the game, but behind Stephen Curry, Anthony Davis, and Anthony Edwards.
Despite these slight differences, the entire First Team is represented among the game`s top ten rated players, indicating a high degree of accuracy in NBA 2K25`s top-tier ratings relative to the voting results.
With Curry, James, and Edwards making the Second Team, only two players from NBA 2K25`s top ten ratings (Doncic and Davis) were not selected for any All-NBA team this year.
Rounding out the Second Team are Jalen Brunson (93 OVR) and Evan Mobley (92 OVR), both found within the game`s top 20 players.
On the Third Team, Karl-Anthony Towns (93 OVR) and Cade Cunningham (92 OVR) are rated similarly to the Second Team players. Tyrese Haliburton, James Harden, and Jalen Williams are the only members across all three All-NBA teams whose ratings fall outside the game`s top 20.
Haliburton and Harden are rated 90 OVR, while Jalen Williams, with an 89 OVR, represents the most unexpected inclusion among the All-NBA selections based purely on in-game rating.
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