In this always-on-fire collection of essays about the classic 2-on-2 video game NBA Jam, Brian Oliu and thirteen Player 2 contributors offer essays that explore the purest love and hatred for the game of basketball. While Oliu tells of his continuous battle with identity-particularly due to the overwhelmingly large shadow of his father's basketball abilities, as well as Brian's own seemingly larger-than-life size as a child-Player 2 authors provide an eclectic balance of comic and tragic stories about the teams that represent them. Player 2 essay contributions from: Jason McCall, Steve Kowalski, Tyler Gobble, Sal Pane, Barry Grass, Tessa Fontaine, Tasha Coryell, Connor O'Neill, Abbas Abidi, xTx, Nate Harris, Meghan Tear Plummer, Colin Rafferty.