Won’t move in any gear

My 2002 GMC Sierra worked fine last night it
needs the alignment redone and shifter
spring is broken but still usable if I push the
spring in place. So today my boyfriend
changed the front tire on driver side and
lowered it back down then I started it and
went to reverse and it didn’t reverse then
tried neutral and nothing and it’s in the
driveway that has a slope to it so it should
naturally roll back especially in neutral but it
doesn’t then my boyfriend tried putting it in
drive and stepped on gas and it made a
creaking or cranking kind of noise that came
from the front of truck kinda from the axle or
something and e break doesn’t even work
hasn’t for awhile so that’s def not stopping it
? Do you think it’s the shifter cable or
something with the shifter ? And how can I
check that ??