This games a pay to win in mycareer like all 2k games. The season is basic, and goes way longer then a season of basketball.
The only difficulty is from the 3v3 vs ai, just for the fact that once your team is in the lead of it. All of your characters behave like they've never seen a basketball before. I have had numerous situations with those games that once you have a 1 point lead, that no matter how open or perfect your shot is, it will say late or early, or for the fact that the character is wide open.....it's a brick...every...fn...time.