Since there aren’t too many big storylines from the NBA lately (other than Gilbert Arenas and the Eastern/Western coaches of the month awards, yawn) I wanted to touch on something that has the potential to be monumental…

Instead, sources confirmed to ESPN that the new title is actually one of the all-time classics coming back to consoles as EA Sports has acquired the rights from the NBA to deliver an updated version of “NBA Jam” that will ship to retail exclusively for the Wii.

Yup, the 1993 (yes 1993) classic that once rocked arcades and sports fans alike is making a comeback.  I’m 30 years old, don’t play video games but can honestly say when this thing hits arcades and Wii systems I’m going to get my ass to the nearest one.

Oh man the memories.  “He’s Heating up!”  “Boomshalaka!”   Remember how good Scottie Pippen was in that game?  Remember Shawn Kemp and Gary Payton as a team?  Good God it was sickening how awesome that game was.

And what about when you could put in codes and have like weird celebrity heads go on the players and stuff?  And remember being that little tiny guy?  What was his name again?  I’m getting antsy just thinking about the return of this game.

They better have the same announcer.

[Via ESPN]