If you had the chance to vote for yourself so that you could appear in a video game, would you?  Of course you would, and that’s exactly what Kevin Love is doing, too.  From ESPN.com:

[T]hanks to EA Sports, fans are going to be playing a new version of the classic 2-on-2 game “NBA Jam” by the time next season tips off.

Only thing is, the roster for each “NBA Jam” team is actually open to fan vote, so I found some players who admitted to actually logging onto the EA Sports site to increase the likelihood of seeing themselves go “boom-shacka-lacka” in the game.

“I went online and kept refreshing my computer and voting myself into ‘Jam,’ I’m not going to lie,” said Kevin Love. “‘NBA Jam’ was my favorite game growing up, so I was on there all day voting for myself. I used to play as Shawn Kemp and Gary Payton or Karl Malone and John Stockton. I never even imagined that I could be in ‘Jam.’ I just want to get that team fire, get that blue ball … It’s going to be cool.”

I totally get where Kevin Love is coming from, as there have to be few things cooler than seeing yourself in a video game, especially one as cool as NBA Jam.  It’s a shame that the game is set for release only on the Wii since the Wii sucks and isn’t for people who actually play video games, but I’m hoping its inevitable success will lead to a multi-platform release.

But back to Love – that’s a great move, and I’m sure he’s not alone.  If guys in the NBA have egos so large that they need diamond-encrusted models of their own heads, I’m sure they are also dying to appear in a video game.  Not that Love has an ego – he seems more like a kid who likes video games – but he’s not alone.