Professional athletes are no strangers to criticism. In the old days you could yell at the players at the game, but now we have the internet. Now we can insult them quietly and individually on Twitter. So to remind those who write unkind things that players actually see these horrible tweets
Spike Lee spoke with USA Today confirming his involvement in directing Be the Story in the MyCareer mode in NBA 2k15. Here’s what Spike Lee had to say about his involvement with 2k:
“We follow a kid through the trials and tribulations of being a top high school player and the decisions he has to make,” Lee tells USA TODAY. He says that although he managed to master the intricacies of a 12-day motion-capture shoot at 2K Games’ Bay Area studios, his video game skills leave a lot to be desired.
“My son’s taught me a bit, but I’m a dinosaur,” Lee says, calling from the Chicago set of his next feature, tentatively and controversially called Chiraq. (Some Chicagoans have complained that the title, an amalgam of Chicago and Iraq, denigrates their town. Lee just says, “It’s gonna be great.”)
“We added MyCareer in 2012, and we’ve always been trying to make it more and more of a real story, like a film with drama,” 2K spokesman Ryan Peters says. “We just told Spike, ‘You transform the narrative, and we’ll change that into digital polygons.’ And he did that, bringing a protagonist and antagonist to the story.”
“I’m guessing every one of us grew up dreaming of the moment we’d be on the cover,” Davis says of the 15-year-old video game franchise. “I’ve seen so many players I know head off and put on a suit with all those balls (for motion-capture duty); it looks so fun.”
“I hope Golden State wins. Now, I’m not hating on LeBron (James, star of the Cleveland Cavaliers), I just like the way Golden State plays,” Lee says. “I think Steve Kerr (the Warriors’ coach) should have been coach of the year. And Curry, well, his father (NBA player Dell Curry) used to kill the Knicks. But his son has a shot that’s so sweet, so quick.”
