Spike Lee will be directing cinematics for the MyCareer portion of NBA 2K16, the sports simulation sequel set to tip off this September for Windows and consoles. There are details on the plan on USA Today revealing this to be an interesting choice, as although Lee has a famous passion for basketball, he has no prior experience with motion capture shoots and is not a video gamer, in spite of being in the right age range (under 60). Here's word:

"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."

Peters says Lee shot what amounts to 90 minutes of "cinematic narrative," which translates to about 12 hours of in-game drama.