There are a couple of things I do to the rosters of each team before starting a MyCareer campaign.
1: Give the top 2-3 stars on each team a No-Trade clause in their contract. On the Lakers, this would be: Nash, Howard and Bryant. This does not always work but normally does.
2: Give those stars multi-year contracts if they do not have them. One of the most annoying things about MyCareer for me, is to see Chris Paul and Dwight Howard take deals with new teams (usually Cleveland and Detroit respectively) after the first season. For whatever reason, 2k has made the loyalty of certain superstars really low; I usually make the contracts poison-pill types of contracts as well, to discourage trades involving these players.
I do this for the team's stars, or those I feel would likely never leave the teams they are with. There is a balance to strike so your league will still have some player-movement, but not the head scratchers that the AI will sometimes do on its own.
I hope that next year, 2K will have an invisible "Franchise Player" flag that could be active on a player for players like Kobe who almost in any circumstance would not be moved from their team.
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