NBA 2K23 Best Builds For Every Position (2024)

NBA 2K23 is now finally out, which means it’s time to dive into the game’s MyPlayer creation suite to build some demigods! Let’s take a look at some quintessential NBA 2K23 best builds for the My Player Builder, and guide you through each position.

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With each new year comes a new range of quirky additions and refinements to the My Player creation suite, and the NBA 2K development team has undoubtedly made efforts to make it harder to build players with shades of NBA stars. Point distribution across the different attributes is just a matter of working from the top down, and you often need to target specific areas first before the others, otherwise you could find yourself locked out from adding additional points to other key attributes.

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If you want to craft a player that’s truly destined for NBA stardom, this guide can certainly be a starting point.

After countless hours over the past few days refining and testing out these builds, I believe these are the best players to help you work and battle your way through The City and My Career, and guide your created build and player to stardom in NBA 2K23

It’s worthy noting that these builds are by my standards the best suited to each position: I haven’t created players that are simply fun to play, but rather players that most realistically suite the position. You can take these builds merely as foundations and adjust and edit them as you see fit, however it’s likely that the NBA players of which the build has “shades” of will definitely change.

NOTE: These builds are for the Xbox Series X/S and PS5 versions of NBA 2K23

Best PG Builds | Best SG Builds | Best SG Builds | Best PF Builds | Best Centre Builds

Best PG Builds

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Build 1: 2-Way Playshot with shades of Jason Williams, Fred VanVleed and Mike Conley

Body Settings

Height: 6’2″
Weight: 193 lbs
Wingspan: 6’10

Attributes

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The target with this build is strong defensive awareness and finishing, providing a layer of explosiveness that makes it an incredibly fun build to play with. Additionally, we have strong ball handling and pace, making quick off-dribble moves and passing proficiency a key attribute stack.

Takeovers

Select “Extreme Clamps” and “Anklebreaking Shots”

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Build 2: Sharpshooting Shot Creator with shades of Trae Young and Darius Garland

Body Settings

Height: 6’3″
Weight: 203 lbs
Wingspan: 7’0″

Attributes

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I’m targeting a strong shooter with solid clamps and good ball handling. We compromise some finishing skills but this build can create space and hit shots off the dribble. They also have high capacity to cause then turnover so we want to identify finishers that target individual defense.

Best SG Builds

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Build 1: Sharpshooter with Shades of Stephen Curry

Body Settings

Height: 6’3″
Weight: 185 lbs
Wingspan: 6’3″

Attributes

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Takeovers

Select “Limitless Range” and “Shot-Up Precision”

You’ll end up with a Sharpshooting Guard with shades of Step Curry.

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Build 2: Shooter with Shades of Kobe Bryant

Body Settings

Height: 6’6″
Weight: 229 lbs
Wingspan: 6’8″

Attributes

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Takeovers

Select “Finishing Moves” and “Pull-Up Precision”

You’ll end up with a Shooting Guard with shades of Kobe Bryant

Best SF Builds

Build 1: Interior Finisher with Shades of LeBron James and DeMar DeRozan

Body Settings

Height: 6’9″
Weight: 250 lbs
Wingspan: 6’11”

Attributes

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As one might expect for a LeBron James build, we’ve got a fairly rounded overall build across the badges available.

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Takeovers

Select “Pull-Up Precision” and “Limitless Range”

You’ll end up with an Interior Finisher with shades of LeBron James and DeMar DeRozan.

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Build 2: 2-Way Playshot with shades of Latrell Sprewell, Paul George, and RJ Barrett

Body Settings

Height: 6’8″
Weight: 237 lbs
Wingspan: 7’0″

Attributes

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I’ve targeted Shooting, Playmaking and Defense with this build, at a compromise to Finishing attributes. There’s still good power there with the driving dunk, however, so if you can pull off an effective pick and get space there’s a lot of room and shoot prowess available with this build.

Takeovers

Extreme Clamps and Anklebreaking Shots give this build defensive and offensive efficiency for a super powerful two-way forward.

Best PF Builds

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Build 1: Glass-Cleaning Finisher with Shades of Zion Williamson

Body Settings

Height: 6’8″
Weight: 262 lbs
Wingspan: 7’6″

Attributes

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This is a clunky but still fund build to play around with and I recommend giving it a shot.

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Takeovers

Select “Finishing Moves” and “Power Backdowns”

You’ll end up with an Interior Finisher with shades of Zion Williamson.

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Build 2: Paint Beast with Shades of Giannis Antetokounmpo

Body Settings

Height: 6’8″
Weight: 262 lbs
Wingspan: 7’6″

Attributes

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This build compromises a bit in the way of shooting but unless you want to go down the path of Shaq and have a slow, lumbering build, you almost need to stack literally every other attribute build to ensure you still have some pass and solid ball handling skills. This build has great finishing skills and defensive awareness, so you should be effective on the defensive end to feed into the fast break.