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Just avoid the online stuff, it's pure cancer. Play MyNBA Eras, it's by far the best mode. Want to recreate Jordan's dominance in the '90s, make it even crazier, or maybe prevent him from winning with Utah Jazz and the beautiful duo of Stockton and Karl Malone? Want to play the 76ers of Julius Erving and Moses Malone in the mid '80s and stop the Lakers - Celtics dominance? Maybe you want to convince the mediocre Bulls team to trade their exciting rookie in '84 and create an alternative reality where the '90s Bulls never existed? Or maybe you want to actually win an NBA title with that mediocre Bulls team in the '80s with just prime Jordan (with Hall of Fame difficulty lmao)?
You could also try to trade Charles Barkley in '92 when he becomes a free agent and make an insane trio of Jordan - Pippen - Barkley (you'll probably need to trade half of your team to just manage the salary cap hahaha)
Or play as Allen Iverson in early 2000's and actually win a title against the mighty Lakers' duo of Shaq and Kobe? Or more recently, stop Steph Curry from dominating? (impossible honestly lol)
And yes, some rosters in some eras are not 100% complete, but you can load custom rosters made by the community and you'll have a greater experience (notably Charles Barkley and Blake Griffin are missing in the official roster due to some licensing issues).
All in all, just this mode is fantastic honestly, no sports game comes close to recreating a historical era so well. It's quite immersive, including rule changes that actually happened in real life, teams relocating and actual historical drafts (witness a rookie Shaq, Kobe, Duncan, Iverson, McGrady, Irving coming into the league) and most importantly, team tendencies and styles being so different — if you play ball in the '80s era, there's almost no 3's, the game is slower, more inside baskets and intense defense and closer game; in the '90s there's some 3's being thrown but they are almost negligible compared to the current era, the pace though ramps up compared to the '80s. And the current era is just splashing 3's most of the time lmao which can be annoying but it's also much harder on defence in my opinion. Players are so well-rounded in the current era it's actually insane, before you had just a few well-rounded players and it was mostly about role specialists. Now you can have a center like Jokic that can do basically anything.
Just having this sandbox of options is fantastic and worth getting the game. If you actually play like real basketball with pick and roll and calls (and broadcast camera) it's basically watching real ball, it can get very immersive. And again, I just don't care about online, tried MyCarreer a little and all the cutscenes and the low rating of your player (incentivizing you to buy currency with real money) is just cringe as hell, so I just avoid it.
Pro tip: if you want to "simulate" a MyCareer like gameplay without all the predatory stuff just turn on the "player lock" setting and set it to a specific position (PG if you want to play Iverson in the 2000's 76ers, for example), it can get a bit annoying when subs are automatically done as you'll basically be forced to play another player temporarily, but you can manage that with manual subs. This way you can have a "MyCareer" without the flashy stuff and cutscenes that I mostly don't care about. Also, playing as a historical player is much more immersive than a random custom player you generated, but that may be just my preference.
TLDR: play MyNBA eras, avoid online. Actual gameplay on the court is immersive, realistic and highly customizable.