Earlier this week, the NBA detailed a content partnership with the Turner-owned Cartoon Network. The first fruits of the deal have a face now, as the NBA has announced Eddie House and his 7-year-old son Jaelen will star in a live-action show called My Dad's a Pro beginning this fall.House plays for the Celtics, a journeyman who has done time in Miami, Sacramento, Phoenix and New Jersey. His stint in Phoenix, in particular, has helped build a persona as a real personality -- Jack McCallum's Seven Seconds or Less paints House (or "Casa," as he had been dubbed) as the locker room's real wild card. He's built on that reputation in Boston as the Celtics' designated assassin -- he isn't exactly shy about letting the world know when he hits a big shot.
The genre of showing the domestic lives of celebrities is hardly new; even in the NBA world, Real Housewives of Atlanta starred Eric Snow's wife DeShawn for one season. (Hilariously, Mrs. Snow said a producer told her the reason she was cut from the series is because she was "too human for a circus show." The NBA: too normal for reality T.V.! Let's hope the Houses don't suffer the same fate.)
House is married to the sister of Mike Bibby, who has some camera-friendly kids of his own.
