Well Metsis, I just want to answer :-----
You and about everyone down here are playing against the CPU and they enjoy it.
For my part I had the chance to discover NBA LIVE with a friend. We started to play NBA LIVE 1998 , proceeded to NBA inside drive (PC) (oops...

) and then we played an entire season with NBA LIVE 2001. We didn't knew exactly what was the franchise mode when we clicked on "new season", but still we wanted exact roster to play with our favourites teams. No fantasy draft or imaginary rookies. I played with the Blazers and he took the Lakers. We enjoyed one full 82 games season. And after that, we wanted to wait for the new nba live, the 2003. We've waited a couple of month and there it was !
We were disapointed with the 2003 and had to call the season off.
We just want to play one season with the real life roster, him against me.
His team against mine.
The history, we create it, we don't let the game create it for us.
I have one ring (I was the Champion....

lol) and I'm playing to get some more, the way it has to be for two HUMAN players.
Human Vs Human, that's the whole Idea