A year after winning the Defensive Player of the Year and shooting a fantastic 67.9 percent from the field, it stood to reason that Chandler was in line for a rating in the low-to-mid 80s in NBA 2K13.

NBA 2K13 doesn't play it safe. Considering the NBA 2K franchise's three-year lack of competition, developer Visual Concepts could get away with sticking to the basics. But year in, year out, the ...

By no means am I a hard-core basketball fan, but maybe that's why I find myself playing a lot of NBA 2K13 lately -- because it's turned me into one. Well, maybe just a fan of the video game.