My wishlist:
- All star saturday night events
- Have crowd get up and leave if home team is being blown out
- Better transitions between animations and better animation themselves- now it looks robotic, when a CPU player sprints, then stops, then starts to do fancy ball handles etc. Make it look natural. Also running animations look extremely robotic, have players fling their off ball hands randomly or something else.
- Have accurate colors- no more pinks or sky blues when they ain't needed
- Fix an issue when the crowd would go quiet even though home team has a big lead.
- Continue to improve presentation: I want to see some stuff before the game, like showing key factors for either team, how teams and key players perform against one another (ppg, percentages, etc). Perhaps include some real life footage of star players' highlights, just to make it better. The presentation before the game should go on for a few minutes and not just 30 seconds. It's nice to find out interesting stuff about the team you are facing.
- Starting Lineup introductions at the start of the game.
- Put more emphasis on big time events presentation-wise: The season opener should have noticeably anticipation before the game, as well as all star games, rookie challenges, playoff openers, and, of course, NBA Finals opener.
- Be creative and add more stuff to half time show, like wider analysis of the game, maybe with people in a studio (you could have EJ, Kenny and Chuck, how cool is that!

) They could talk about how teams performed, state opinions and even crack a few jokes. The point is make it longer to feel more like halftime and not a timeout, while still making it interesting and worth to look at. 3-4 minutes is what I'm thinking.
- I'd like to see interviews in association like we have in my player in 2k11. Might be tricky to do players' voices and all that, but I don't think people would be bugged much if players did not have their own voices. If this gets done I'd like to see coaches and key players answering questions, possibly representatives of the CPU team you just played could answer questions too, and you will have the ability to hear all that. It can be fun and lead to disliking the other team if they say something bad about you

Would bring more feel to the association. Answers could affect all of the same things as in my player, only it affects the whole team (chemistry, fans. I'm not sure what effect it could have on league popularity, but I'm thinking the more popular your team is, the better chance players wish to sign with you or resign in the offseason. Could also result in more trades being offered to you by the CPU teams.)
- More statistics in association, like dunks, opp. fg% etc.
- Have ads show during time-outs if it's a full one and if it's more than 2 minutes to go in the 4th. Something similar to between the quarters, maybe NBA Cares ones that we see in real nba season.
- Add playoff crowds for teams that has them, e.g. Thunder in blue, Heat in white, Bulls in Red etc. Don't use playoff crowds on teams that don't use them (or at least fans are too proud to put on a giveaway t-shirt), like the LA Lakers.
- Present important events with logos and accessories like in real life, e.g. green headbands and Green Week Logos on courts, Christmas logo on jerseys as well as NBA Cares logo on courts (can't remember exactly what the on-court logo was this year), etc.
- In association, ability to view the season series between teams, including the record and results.
-In association, have ability to compare any 2 teams and any 2 players, with every single stat available.
- In association, add ability to promote assistant coaches to head coaches.
- In association, add ability to have 3 assistant coaches instead of just 1, the more assistant coaches means more drills can be done (the ones that we can do monthly).
- Perhaps do a couple of scoreboard designs that would be random for each game, therefore creating an illusion of games being broadcasted by different televisions.
- In association, do a "show" of team previews- show last season's stats and accomplishments, leading players, roster changes during the offseason etc. Commentary is welcome but not completely necessary.
- In association, important internal news should pop-up as a message, like a change of player's morale, etc.
- In association, add chemistry between players (any player to any player), much like in NBA Live 08