{"id":479406,"date":"2025-11-12T00:41:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T01:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=479406"},"modified":"2025-11-12T02:18:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:18:49","slug":"just-turned-on-an-nba-game-for-the-first-time-in-a-while-why-are-they-trying-to-make-it-look-like-a-2k-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=479406","title":{"rendered":"Just turned on an NBA game for the first time in a while. Why are they trying to make it look like a 2K video game?"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sports\/comments\/1ous6dc\/just_turned_on_an_nba_game_for_the_first_time_in\/\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/external-preview.redd.it\/NmJ0OTZib2dkcTBnMQq521rc-9qO4dEkGPDBbLGX_8_Yd_6pwz_ZfxDIyHwO.png?width=640&amp;crop=smart&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=c25cae6c0970687f32dce4458992b6f517592b0f\" alt=\"Just turned on an NBA game for the first time in a while. Why are they trying to make it look like a 2K video game?\" title=\"Just turned on an NBA game for the first time in a while. Why are they trying to make it look like a 2K video game?\" \/> <\/a> <\/td>\n<td> <!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Do we really need circles under the players to show who has the ball, names constantly over everyone\u2019s heads, and animations to indicate when a basket is scored? This all just seems excessively distracting for no reason. I don\u2019t need indicators to help me play the game when I\u2019m just trying to watch. (Sorry for the phone recorded video)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON --> &#032; submitted by &#032; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Fly0strich\"> \/u\/Fly0strich <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/v.redd.it\/zs2i59vgdq0g1\">[link]<\/a><\/span> &#032; <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sports\/comments\/1ous6dc\/just_turned_on_an_nba_game_for_the_first_time_in\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Do we really need circles under the players to show who has the ball, names constantly over everyone\u2019s heads, and animations to indicate when a <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=479406\" title=\"Just turned on an NBA game for the first time in a while. Why are they trying to make it look like a 2K video game?\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":479408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=479406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479409,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479406\/revisions\/479409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/479408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=479406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=479406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=479406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}