Tag: NBA

Geekscape 542: Talking Basketball Documentaries And Video Games With Zach Harper!

by Jonathan

We don’t talk much sports on Geekscape, but ESPN’s multipart Michael Jordan documentary ‘The Last Dance’ is a major event. And with the Coronavirus Pandemic shutting down sports, who knows when I’ll get a chance to geek out on the NBA again. Luckily, Zach Harper is a basketball writer for The Athletic and a personality on SiriusXM’s NBA channel and is here on Geekscape to talk about the NBA shutdown, how esports is continuing to take over in the wake of the pandemic and when we might see basketball again! Along the way, we discuss the best basketball documentaries, the best basketball videogames (is it NBA Jam?) and what NBA players are total geeks themselves! Former Geekscape guest Erin Darling Torralva also drops in to talk about her new online comedy course and how she and Zach are navigating the quarantine together! Enjoy!

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Miss ‘NBA Jam’? Check Out ‘NBA Playgrounds’!!

by The_acz

It seems like within the past couple of years that sports games have become more popular.

While there are still fun sports games like the NBA 2K series and FIFA, it all but seems like the more light hearted days of arcade sports games like NBA Jam and NFL Blitz. There was a brief resurgence of these games in the early 2010’s, but they were more toned down from their original versions (except NBA Jam for Wii. That was pretty faithful.) Enter NBA Playgrounds. What seems a pseudo spiritual successor to the jam series. There’s not much to the trailer, but the game will be launching in May for Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PS4, and PC for $20. Check out the trailer below and tell us in the comments what your favorite arcade style sports game is!