This sounds like it going to be a flop, but we’ll have to see. Here’s a little excerpt I found interesting.

The first-of-its-kind technology: Each Spurs and Knicks player will appear as a motion-enabled, animated player for the special Christmas matchup. Through state-of-the-art real-time visualization technology enabled by Sony’s Beyond Sports, combined with Sony’s Hawk-Eye Innovations’ optical tracking, fans watching Dunk the Halls will see every three-pointer, dunk, layup, pass and more from the real-life Spurs vs. Knicks game at Madison Square Garden in New York as it happens.

More production highlights:

At halftime of the Spurs vs. Knicks game, the Disney characters, led by Mickey Mouse, will compete in a special slam dunk contest;
Santa’s Elves will operate the cameras for the game while Santa himself will operate ESPN’s “SkyCam” during the game;
The Disney characters will deliver pregame and halftime speeches to the players and decorate a large Christmas tree during the game;
Fans will also get to find out if it will snow on “Main Street, USA” and see how many churros Goofy can eat.

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  3. Man, so much to unpack here…
    First off, I genuinely thought this was satire until I clicked the link and saw it was on nba.com lmao. Like, who is this for? Kids or adults? It’s just such an odd combination and I’m not sure who the audience is. Seems like there’s a very small demographic that would be excited about a Disney animated nba game, but who knows, maybe I’m wrong.
    The technology is cool, but is this really the best use for it??? Giving Mickey Mouse and the gang a dunk contest? Is this all a ploy by Adam Silver to try and sell sports gambling to kids? Am I just an old curmudgeon who doesn’t get it? Guess we’ll find out in December

  5. I watched the NFLs Toy Story broadcast animated game and while it wasn’t perfect, it was pretty cool. A little laggy here and there with a few glitches but it was entertaining for a jaguars game

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