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NBA 2K23: List of Mavs' Roster Ratings

Spoiler alert: Luka Doncic was made the highest-rated player on the Dallas Mavericks.

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You know you're getting dangerously close to the start of the next season when NBA 2K releases player ratings for the newest edition of their game.

All Dallas Mavericks players' ratings for NBA 2K23, which will be released on Friday, Sept. 9, have been revealed. Some are exactly what you'd expect, and some are just downright disrespectful. Let's take a look at how 2K views the Mavs' roster:

  1. Luka Doncic – 95
  2. Christian Wood – 84
  3. Spencer Dinwiddie – 80
  4. JaVale McGee – 79
  5. Dorian Finney-Smith – 78
  6. Dwight Powell – 78
  7. Tim Hardaway Jr. – 77
  8. Maxi Kleber – 75
  9. Reggie Bullock – 74
  10. Davis Bertans – 73
  11. Josh Green – 73
  12. Frank Ntilikina – 72
  13. Theo Pinson – 68

Unsurprisingly, Doncic made the top of the Mavs' list. Overall, he's the seventh-best player in the game, ranking behind Nikola Jokic (96), Steph Curry (96), Joel Embiid (96), Kevin Durant (96), LeBron James (96) and Giannis Antetokounmpo (97).

As for the rest of the Mavs' roster? Well, we think things could've been evaluated a little better. For example, if Dinwiddie and Wood are going to be ranked in the 80s, then Finney-Smith should definitely be ranked in that tier given his overall importance to the team's success. It also seems pretty crazy to have Bullock, who is arguably Dallas' second-best 3-and-D player, ranked just one point ahead of Green and Bertans.

Although it's just a video game and these ratings ultimately don't matter, you can tell how little attention the creators of the game pay to teams like the Mavs based on these things. Ratings for rookie guard Jaden Hardy and two-way contract player Tyler Dorsey have yet to be revealed.

After 12 years, the 2K franchise is bringing back one of its most legendary gameplay features – The Jordan Challenge, where gamers can re-create some of Michael Jordan's most iconic moments.

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Dalton Trigg
DALTON TRIGG

Dalton Trigg is the Editor-In-Chief for Dallas Basketball, as well as the Executive Editor overseeing Inside The Rockets, Inside The Spurs, All Knicks, and The Magic Insider. He is the founder and host for the Mavs Step Back Podcast, which is a proud part of the Blue Wire podcast network. Trigg graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi’s College of Business and Economic Development with a bachelor’s degree in entrepreneurship in 2016. After spending a few years with multiple Dallas Mavericks-related blogs, including SB Nation’s Mavs Moneyball, Trigg joined DallasBasketball.com as a staff writer in 2018 and never looked back. At the start of 2022, he was promoted to the EIC title he holds now. Through the years, Trigg has conducted a handful of high-profile one-on-one interviews to add to his resume — in both writing and podcasting. Some of his biggest interviews have been with Mavs owner Mark Cuban, Mavs GM Nico Harrison, now-retired legend Dirk Nowitzki and many other current/former players and team staffers. Many of those interviews and other articles by Trigg have been aggregated by other well-known sports media websites, such as Yahoo Sports, CBS Sports, Bleacher Report and others. You can find Trigg on all major social media channels, but his most prevalent platform is on Twitter. Whether it’s posting links to his DBcom work, live-tweeting Mavs games or merely giving his opinions on things going on with Dallas and the rest of the NBA, the daily content never stops rolling. For any inquiries, please email Dalton@MavsStepBack.com.

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