Grizzled GM Basketball is a single-player basketball management simulation game. Set your roster, make trades, draft prospects, manage your finances, and try to build a dynasty. Play it in your browser now, completely 100% free!
June 8, 2020 - New Feature
With the recent real player rating changes incorporating season stats along with the standard player development we were using before it makes ratings very realistic. However, there were some situations where fluky things happened for some players. So I did a bunch of long term testing in order better handle these situations. I also fixed a retirement bug.
Looking at the HOF now I would say the biggest difference compared to real life is there are some players who got injured, or even were kicked out of the league, when they were still at the peak of their careers. One year they are NBA All-Stars and the next they are gone. In Grizzled GM Basketball you get to see what those careers may have been.
The biggest example of this that I found was Maurice Stokes:
Unfortunately, in the last game of the 1957-58 NBA regular season he fell to the floor and was knocked unconscious. He was revived with smelling salts and returned to the game. He then went and played a playoff game 3 days later. On the flight back from the game he fell ill. He later suffered a seizure and was left permanently paralyzed. He was only able to communicate by blinking.
His close friend and teammate, Jack Twyman, became his legal gaurdian. Jack organized the "Maurice Stokes Memorial Basketball Game" to help raise money for his medical expenses that the NBA stars of the day would come play in. Stokes died in 1970 and they actually made a 1973 film about him called Maurie.
So in Grizzled GM Basketball Maurice Stokes plays on.