I was recently asked about some of the work I did while at Electronic Arts so I started poking around the Internet Archive to see what was stored in there and I came across the site for NBA Street which I produced and my good buddy John Egan designed.

We had a great time putting it together, but we did it under a very tight deadline and with almost no Flash skill between us. 2 white guys (one jewish) and indian-Canadian marketing manager, Otis- the game was built in our Vancouver studi putting together a website for a hip=hop basketball game--crazy. It was a Louis Farrakhan nightmare.

It was fun, but stressful. I kept John at the office late into the night. I'd ply him food to keep him happy. I think a few nights in the final week he spent the night in his cube rather than go home to his SF apartment. This was 2001 in Silicon Valley. Post bubble, but still very heady in some corners of the Valley, like ours.

We never finished the site. the version linked here was completed in the months before September 11th and we were both laid off shortly thereafter. It's possible John might have left before. I can't remember. But the site had such great potential, despite it's lack of technical polish. If I built it today, it would be completely different. Instead of one large movie the user has to load in advance, there would be a movie for each section that loaded on an as needed basis. We would have a preloader that actually worked instead of that ball rolling across the screen which, in fact, does nothing. And we'd build it with an XML backbone so it would be easy to update. Regardless of that, it's still a fun site.