Photos: A real hockey hero becomes a virtual game star

For most of the motion-capture session, Nash skated on his own. But at one point, 2K Sports senior product manager Mike Rhinehart joined him on the synthetic ice to let Nash skate as if he was trying to elude a defender. This method was thought to inspire Nash to skate more realistically for that kind of movement.

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