Operation Sports has screenshots of NBA 2K11 team rankings. Here's how they stack up:
| Team | Overall | Offense | Defense |
| Blazers | 14th | 21st | 14th |
| Bobcats | 16th | 26th | 10th |
| Bucks | 11th | 18th | 9th |
| Bulls | 4th | 22nd | 3rd |
| Cavs | 22nd | 29th | 15th |
| Celtics | 6th | 7th | 5th |
| Clippers | 28th | 23rd | 26th |
| Grizzlies | 15th | 10th | 21st |
| Hawks | 12th | 8th | 13th |
| Heat | 2nd | 2nd | 4th |
| Hornets | 20th | 12th | 27th |
| Jazz | 10th | 5th | 12th |
| Kings | 21st | 19th | 23rd |
| Knicks | 13th | 6th | 18th |
| Lakers | 1st | 3rd | 1st |
| Magic | 3rd | 4th | 2nd |
| Mavs | 8th | 14th | 8th |
| Nets | 25th | 27th | 24th |
| Nuggets | 7th | 1st | 11th |
| Pacers | 26th | 24th | 20th |
| Pistons | 27th | 25th | 22nd |
| Raptors | 30th | 28th | 29th |
| Rockets | 17th | 9th | 17th |
| Sixers | 19th | 15th | 16th |
| Spurs | 9th | 16th | 7th |
| Suns | 23rd | 13th | 28th |
| Thunder | 5th | 17th | 6th |
| Timberwolves | 29th | 30th | 30th |
| Warriors | 18th | 11th | 25th |
| Wizards | 24th | 20th | 19th |