The unfortunate thing is that Westbrook believes that his skills are elite. He took very little responsibility of the team's failings during his interview to end the season. Westbrook has a basketball ego that's extremely hard to break. Maybe the team on NBA 2K MT can break that ego down a bit, but. The ratings for the game are beginning to come out, and Westbrook's score is not one of a superstar player (which he thinks he is). It's the player on the bench who rotates.
Russell Westbrook was given an awful 78 percent overall score on NBA 2K23. Russell Westbrook has the fourth-highest 2K23 rating for the Los Angeles Lakers. Westbrook clearly is behind LeBron James and Anthony Davis but he is also behind his newest teammate as well. The folks over at 2K gave Patrick Beverley a 79 overall rating, which is probably an appropriate reflection of where he's where he is in his playing career.
Westbrook is stood in a tie with Kendrick Nunn, and is barely higher than the likes of Thomas Bryant and Lonnie Walker IV. This is a huge decline for Westbrook however, it's absolutely justifiable. Westbrook stans will be outraged with this rating and be quick to point to its box scores as the primary reason why his rating should probably be somewhere in the middle to high 80s. Anyone who actually watched Lakers game last year knows how deceiving that box score can be and how badly Westbrook played last season.
The former MVP has been a tad overrated when it is considered a winning player (he has not won a single playoff series since Kevin Durant left OKC) however, there was no doubt about his athleticism and skills. It could be a good thing to translate to 2K, even if it didn't translate into winning basketball games in actual life.
NBA 2K23 is here it's here, and that means hoops heads and casual NBA players will have two seasons worth of debates to begin and more than a few Vince Carter dunk packages to choreograph. We're going to break down the new NBA 2K23 MT Safe For Sale rosters for all 32 NBA teams, and in this article we'll take an in-depth look at the Toronto Raptors.
