The Christmas season is upon us like a Kodiak bear on the Sugar Plum Fairy. Crappy soft-rock covers of beloved secular Christmas songs drip from mall speakers like icicle runoff. Still, the world ...

Alt Text: Dragging Christmas Brutally Into the Present Nothing says you've given up all hope more than clinging to senseless traditions.

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Not only will there be the alt-cast, but each Spurs and Knicks player will appear as a motion-enabled, animated player for the special Christmas matchup.

Deck the halls with "The Bird & Taurasi Show." Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi will bring the Christmas cheer with an alt-cast of the Bucks-Knicks game.

It didn’t hurt that the alt-cast kept viewers pleased with fan trivia during commercial breaks. Given this was the NBA’s first animated alt-cast, Disney’s Mickey Mouse theme panned out well.