I definitely have that option ticked off, because otherwise I wouldn't be able to navigate to the regular folder path anyways, since the folder AppData is considered a hidden folder.
Also, I looked at my users directory, there are three users: Myself, "Default", which is hidden (and I've already looked all throughout that folder, no 2k folders anywhere to be found), and Public, which also has no 2k folders.
For good measure I did some digging around my house and found my old NBA 2k11 disc, and installed it onto my computer...I created a saved franchise and looked at all possible directories and it did come up for NBA 2k11. Which is weird, to say the least.
I've tried countless Windows searches searching the "Computer" for both files and folders and nothing has come up...yet whenever I play the game I seem to have no problems loading up my saved my player and franchise games.