huh?
If you want to know the roots, ( as if its some big time history importance

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i believe nba live branched off of the EA Sports Lakers vs Celtics series.
Wich went to Bulls vs Lakers, and some others. A more slower paced game, but broke into a different look at some basketball games i believe.
nba live 95 ( i think ) was the first to start off a more faster paced full court set of EA games. ( if you played Lakers vs Celtics, you have nightmares of the slow non fluid players running down the court ) I think nba action 95 also came out too.
Memories, i cant believe i followed through all that stuff.