[operationsports]Top 5 NBA 'Video Game' Teams Before Video Games

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The Franchise Man: Top 5 NBA 'Video Game' Teams Before Video Games
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Submitted on: 08/13/2010 by Andrew Kennedy
The 2010-11 Miami Heat are going to be a very special and unique team in many ways. This Heat squad may also end up being the best NBA video game team to date.

This year the Heat will surely be rated as high -- if not higher -- as any other team in NBA Elite or NBA 2K. The Heat will probably ruin online play as well since everyone will play as them.

This got me thinking, what were the best "video game" NBA teams ever in the times before video games? Which teams would have ruined online play in the '70s and '80s?

To get to the bottom of this, I think we first have to define what makes a great NBA video game team.

Great video game teams must have at least two superstars. One should be a big who can finish and preferably block shots, and the other should be a slasher who can finish strong at the rim. Those two dynamic players should also be surrounded by size and shooters.

Now, it’s possible to have this combination and still not do well in real life. Take the 2004-05 Houston Rockets for example. They won 51 games and did not get out of the first round, but they were a great video game team with the combination of Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady.

So with that explanation out of the way, here is my top-five list of teams that go down as the greatest NBA "video game" teams before video games.


5. 1985-86 Houston Rockets

In real life, the '86 Rockets made it to the NBA Finals and lost to the Boston Celtics after upsetting the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference Finals. This team would have been a beast in video games if they had been around back then.

They were the best example of "Twin Towers" with 7-foot-4 Ralph Sampson and second-year Hakeem Olajuwon. We all know that height is extremely important in video games, and can you imagine the way a player like Sampson would have been rated?

His mobility, along with his size and athleticism, would have been rewarded like crazy in the digital world. Then you put Olajuwon next to him, and basically this team would have been impossible to beat.

Olajuwon in the '80s would have probably been the highest-rated player ever. If 99 was not the highest rating, an '80s Olajuwon would have been around a 108 or so -- a '92 Michael Jordan would have come in a close second at around 106.

The sheer size of this team would have been too much for anyone to contend with, and the cheese when playing with a team like this one online would have been at an all-time high.

 

I just put some examples of video games for the clutchfans in case they don't know what they look like

 

you need to check out the emulators for the PC.