NBA players have taken their in-video-game persona as serious as they've taken their real game seriously throughout their careers, and with the emergence of NBA 2K18 as the clear leader in the basketball video game industry, many stars have clamored for their ratings.

To make this matter that much more personal, talks of individual player ratings were prominent even at Harrison Barnes' recent wedding in Rhode Island, where nearly 40 players were in attendance.

Teammate Wesley Matthews had gotten wind of his rating of 83 in the new iteration, sparking debate within everyone in attendance of how the makers of the game come up with an algorithm to generate these numbers.

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His head coach, Rick Carlisle, took the mic during the ceremony and directly addressed the popular Ronnie Singh, known as “Ronnie 2K” among Twitter circles.

“I was at Harrison Barnes’ wedding and a major point of contention was Wesley’s rating,” Singh told Alex Kennedy of HoopsHype. “He found out that he was an 83 overall and he got pretty upset about it. He kept talking to Rick Carlisle about it. Well, Rick was the MC of Harrison’s reception. It got to the point that during the reception, in front of about 40 NBA players, Rick gets on the mic and says, ‘Ronnie, we have to address this rating thing right now. You need to come up here.’

“So during the reception, I’m up there in front of these 40 NBA players explaining why the ratings are the way they are and how they’re determined. And I’m thinking, ‘This guy is in the middle of celebrating his wedding!’ Harrison’s wife was probably like, ‘I’m going to murder Ronnie after this reception.’ (laughs) They’re both amazing people – just a great couple – but I just kept thinking, ‘This is not the proper place for this!’ But Rick orchestrated it, so unfortunately I had to participate.”

While there are appropriate and inappropriate times for this type of discussions, the game has certainly taken such a big step in prominence that it is even being discussed during weddings — making it now an everyday topic of discussion for NBA stars.