{"id":52750,"date":"2023-08-22T15:13:16","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T19:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=52750"},"modified":"2023-08-22T15:20:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T19:20:36","slug":"coatesville-native-seese-is-lighting-it-up-in-nba2k-as-a-professional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=52750","title":{"rendered":"Coatesville native Seese is lighting it up in NBA2K League as a professional"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Kenny McGann<\/strong>, Staff Writer, The Times<\/em><\/p>\n

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Jeremy \u201cSeese\u201d Seese<\/p><\/div>\n

From a hardcore basketball city \u2014 one that produced many great players including Richard \u201cRip\u201d Hamilton \u2014 a new breed of players are making their mark, not on the hardwood, but in a more virtual sense: eSports.<\/p>\n

Coatesville\u2019s Jeremy \u201cSeese\u201d Seese has been making a name for himself in the NBA2K League. Drafted in 2021 by Lakers Gaming, Seese has quickly asserted himself as one of the most dominant players in the league. After stops with the Lakers Gaming, Bucks Gaming and Cavs Legion GC, Seese solidified his standing as a star after a trade to Warriors Gaming Squad and his second league title.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis just shows I\u2019m the best power forward in the world,\u201d said the 2019 Coatesville Area High School graduate and current Temple University student. While that might sound like a brag, the numbers \u2014 and the results \u2014 show that statement actually isn\u2019t controversial.<\/p>\n

Seese\u2019s journey to gaming stardom started with winning Most Improved Player in 2022 while helping to lead Milwaukee Bucks Gaming \u2014 an affiliate of the NBA\u2019s Milwaukee Bucks \u2014 to a championship, Seese ended up making the All 2K-League 2nd Team that year as well.<\/p>\n

In his third season, Seese showed no signs of slowing down, in fact, he looked like the best power forward in all of NBA2K. Seese joined up with the Warriors Gaming Squad and just recently defeated the Australian team NBL Oz for Seese\u2019s 2nd championship in a row. Seese became the first player in NBA2K League history to win two championships on two different teams.<\/p>\n

For him, this championship had even higher stakes because his first championship with Bucks Gaming could be seen as an underdog run. This time, the Warriors Gaming Squad were the favorites, nothing less than a championship would have sufficed.<\/p>\n

Part of what makes Seese so good is the intensity he brings to the stage. When playing on LAN (Local Area Network) \u2014 this is when players are in the same arena, facing each other in person, as opposed to playing on the Internet \u2014 he\u2019s able to get into the head of his opponent. Because of that proximity, eSports competitors have a unique opportunity to implement psychology into their strategy and Seese does so expertly.<\/p>\n

Whether through talking smack or just simply making eye contact with the team across from him after he dunks on someone, Seese explains \u201cI like to get in people\u2019s heads.\u201d<\/p>\n

Throughout his meteoric rise in the NBA2K community Seese has seen his fair share of detractors and it seems to have given him a level of maturity that makes getting into his head no small task.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, that ability to rattle competitors can be a real asset. Many eSports competitors are younger can get rattled when they \u201csmack talk\u201d opponents, only to get it back in spades. Players can lose focus \u2014 and get distracted when they don\u2019t get the response they expect \u2014 something that can happen in ball and stick sports. As a more mature player, Seese doesn\u2019t have that problem.<\/p>\n

When asked about opponents trying to distract him, Seese said \u201cpeople can talk all they want.\u201d<\/p>\n

While he can be hard on opponents, with all of his accomplishments, Seese is thankful for the support he gets from the hometown community.<\/p>\n

He makes clear that being from Coatesville, \u201cgrowing up in that environment and being around so many different types of people\u201d has prepared him to navigate the eSports world. Seese also says that the support from his friends and family around the city has been a part of his success. Seese started playing 2K with his older brother, his competitiveness to beat his brother is what initially got him hooked.<\/p>\n

He knows what the game means to so many people, and he doesn\u2019t ignore that now that he\u2019s established himself as one of the best 2K players alive \u2014 one with more that $200,000 in career earnings.<\/p>\n

Seese still finds time to play the game with his friends outside of his commitments to the Warriors Gaming Squad. He still mostly plays the competitive 5 versus 5 game modes that give him the best practice but he also doesn\u2019t entirely shirk some of the more popular modes \u2014 such as three-on-three and other variations.<\/p>\n

Besides grinding the game for a three-peat, Seese is beginning to invest in and create a brand for himself. He recently got a new PC and is beginning to stream his gameplay at twitch.tv\/SuperSeese<\/a>. Outside of that, he\u2019s set to graduate from Temple University in the fall with a degree in journalism.<\/p>\n

The future is bright for the best power forward in NBA2K \u2014 but it is clear he has not forgotten his roots in Coatesville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Kenny McGann, Staff Writer, The Times From a hardcore basketball city \u2014 one that produced many great players including Richard \u201cRip\u201d Hamilton \u2014 a new breed of players are making their mark, not on the hardwood, but in a more virtual sense: eSports. Coatesville\u2019s Jeremy \u201cSeese\u201d Seese has been making a name for himself […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[1259,15286,7426,15288,15287,1280,15289],"class_list":["post-52750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-sports","tag-coatesville","tag-esports","tag-featured","tag-jeremy-seese-seese","tag-nba2k-league","tag-temple-university","tag-warriors-gaming-squad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52752,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52750\/revisions\/52752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}