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LeBron James in NBA Live 2K16.
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.