The new NBA Live video game is less fun than getting beat up in gym class
One Saturday at my Jewish sleepover camp, it was decreed that we would all play a pickup game of basketball against another bunk. While wearing our Saturday synagogue finest.
The referee, realizing after about three seconds that I literally had no idea what I was doing, excused me. Which was great, because I was halfway through Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," and was super into finishing it.
Fast forward to this month, when EA Sports sent us a review copy of NBA Live 2K16.
These days, I still don't know much of anything about NBA basketball, except for what was in the movie "Space Jam," a movie where Michael Jordan helps Bugs Bunny defeat aliens at basketball.
(And yet, Donald Trump thinks Kareem Abdul-Jabaar is the loser. Makes you think.)
But even with this lack of knowledge, I decided to tackle EA Sports' NBA Live 2K16 video game with the same open mind with which I found Madden NFL 16 football to be a lot of fun. After all, I do know video games.
I can't tell you if NBA Live 2K16 is an accurate representation of basketball. Or how it stacks up to its better-loved rival franchise, 2K Sports NBA 2K16 - though our friends at Tech Insider say that NBA 2K16 is great.
What I can tell you is that NBA Live 2K16 made me wish I could be excused to go read Frankenstein.
Here's why.