PHOENIX — The release of the popular basketball game NBA 2K25 has arrived, which will allow users to play as some of their favorite teams, including fans of the Phoenix Suns.

Fittingly, the Suns have seen some of their biggest names, like Kevin Durant and Devin Booker, get pretty high marks in the video game.

The same cannot be said of Grayson Allen.

Allen – who has an overall rating of 78 in the game – was called Phoenix’s most insulting player by Launderer’s report.

“Doesn’t it seem like a player who was the best in the league in every area in 2023-24 should bottom out at 80 before this upcoming season?” wrote Grant Hughes.

“Of course, winning at the highest level requires balance. The best teams tend to sign players who contribute in multiple ways and who don’t have a clearly exploitable weakness.

“But a single skill, especially shooting, should be enough on its own to raise a player to level 80.

“That’s not the case for Grayson Allen, who led the league with a 46.1 percent three-point shooting percentage last season, prompting a double-take.

“Since becoming a regular in the rotation in 2019-20, Allen has never shot higher than 39.1 percent from three-point range. He’s also averaged above his positional average in assist percentage in all but one of those years, is more than just a sniper, and competes (often too aggressively) on defense.

“His teammate Mason Plumlee, a career backup with no attributes approaching Allen’s shot, is also a 78. That doesn’t add up.”

Hughes is right – and no disrespect to Plumlee – but Allen has no chance of worthy of being on the same level.

Ahead of the 2024-25 season, Allen says he’s working to be better.

“I have a solid foundation,” Allen said on the Duke Blue Planet podcast (Thanks to Duane Rankin, Arizona Republic).

“Now I’m moving more toward more speed and explosion, plyometrics. Moving the weight faster if it’s weighted. A lot of non-weighted stuff. I’m working on speed, power explosion. I’m trying to get back into my game shape and be ready and in better shape. A little faster, a little stronger and be ready for October.”

We’ll see if he can improve his 2K rating in the process.

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