LOS ANGELES — NBA 2K16 will be a Spike Lee joint.
2K Games announced Thursday that it recruited the acclaimed filmmaker — and die-hard New York Knicks fan — to write and direct the single-player campaign for the interactive basketball franchise's next edition.
What did it take for the creator of such landmark films as "Do the Right Thing" and "He Got Game" to sign on to produce a video game?
"They asked me," Lee matter-of-factly noted during a recent phone interview from Chicago, where he's in production on his next project, "Chiraq."
Lee said the game's story centers on a basketball player named Frequency Vibrations, whose personal exploits off the court are just as chaotic as the game on it.