In-game ratings for the entire Utah Jazz roster have been leaked for the upcoming NBA 2K18 video game.
With just over two weeks remaining until the game’s worldwide release, NBA 2K18 chatter and debate over in-game player ratings has dominated social media recently. 2K Sports’ Ronnie Singh has been revealing ratings throughout the summer, including numbers on multiple Jazz players.
However, the floodgates were opened over the weekend.
2K expert and YouTuber Subhaan Ashrafi posted a video on his channel, revealing the overall ratings for every player in the game. That includes the entire Utah Jazz 2017-18 roster, sans Royce O’Neale and two-way signee Eric Griffin.
As previously revealed, Rudy Gobert tops the squad with an overall mark of 88. However, no other Jazz player hit the 80s. That won’t bode well for the team’s ranking league-wide.
The complete Jazz player ratings for NBA 2K18 shake out as follows —
| Player | Rating |
| Rudy Gobert | 88 |
| Ricky Rubio | 79 |
| Joe Ingles | 78 |
| Rodney Hood | 78 |
| Derrick Favors | 78 |
| Joe Johnson | 76 |
| Donovan Mitchell | 75 |
| Thabo Sefolosha | 75 |
| Jonas Jerebko | 74 |
| Ekpe Udoh | 74 |
| Alec Burks | 74 |
| Dante Exum | 73 |
| Raul Neto | 72 |
| Tony Bradley | 70 |
| Joel Bolomboy | 69 |
I expect Favors’ rating will be one that grows throughout the season if he can stay healthy. That said, I wasn’t taken aback by the initial dip given his injury-plagued 2016-17 campaign.
The only real surprises for me here were the overall ratings given to Rubio and Johnson. I was anticipating each to hit the 80s given their reputations among NBA fans and their unique talents. Then again, any Jazz fan will tell you that their team is underrated on an annual basis.
Of course, some of the individual skill grades that are revealed in the video provide some explanation there.
Despite being one of the league’s best perimeter defenders, Rubio got a B+ grade in that department. It’s not a bad mark, but curious one for Rubio, who ranked sixth among point guards who played at least 60 games in defensive real plus/minus last season and has led the NBA in steal percentage in three of the last five years.
However, the A he received in playmaking was well-earned.
Johnson was given a C and a C+ for inside scoring and mid-range shooting respectively. A little weird for a guy whose scoring from those areas may have been the difference in Utah’s first-round playoff series win over the LA Clippers.
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Grades going the team’s way include a couple of A+ marks. One went to Gobert for interior defense, while the other belonged to Ingles for his 3-point prowess.
The latter grade was the least the developers could do after making Ingles’ in-game likeness resemble some kind of failed science experiment.