Cavs general manager David Griffin appeared on Zach Lowe's podcast during the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference last weekend.

Griffin is always an interesting interview, and Lowe, as good as he is as a writer, might be even better as a podcast host. So you could say we had high hopes for this episode.

The pair didn't disappoint.

There were discussions about LeBron James not caring about regular-season MVP awards, about Griffin calling out the superstar for not getting back on defense, and Griffin being "numb" in the seconds after the Cavs clinched the 2016 title.

But the real bombshell occurred at the 22:40 mark of the 30-minute podcast, when Griffin said the Cavs' front office has an NBA Jam machine that was reprogrammed to include the likenesses of Griffin and his staff.

"It's pretty special," he told Lowe.

Griffin said the Cavs' analytics team — director of analytics Jon Nichols, basketball systems developer Brad Havens and basketball analytics developer Michael Hartman — gave the organization the game as a Christmas gift.

And it's no ordinary gift. The GM told Lowe it's a "full-scale arcade version of NBA Jam that has been reprogrammed to be all of us."

That means Griffin can play as himself, and team with assistant GM Koby Altman to play another two-player team.

"It looks just like us. It's amazing," Griffin said. "The chops that these guys have. There was a hackathon here. Nothing's going to touch what these guys did. It's crazy."

The GM said he's either the third- or fourth-most powerful player in the game. The programmers made the boss really good — but not as good as they are. (Incredible, really.)

"I have far too many 9s in my arsenal right now. I'm way better in that game than I am in life," Griffin said. "My image really is that I'm fast and I can shoot 3s, neither of which is true."

And maybe the best part in all of this: One of the characters who is better than Griffin in the Cavs' NBA Jam game: Harambe.

"This is what happens when the nerd cave gets involved," the GM said.

Two other non-basketball things Griffin told Lowe that were also amusing:

— "Our front office staff will make fun of me for this: I knock on my head more than any human being alive," Griffin said. "It's my (version of) knock on wood."

(We can relate.)

— The GM is so superstitious that he usually eats the same thing on game day. Sadly, Griffin's go-to meal isn't nearly as exciting as the Cavs' version of NBA Jam.

"I do something that I doubt anybody does at Chipotle," he told Lowe. "I get a burrito with only chicken in it, nothing else whatsoever, and then I get a side of guacamole and I put just a little bit of the guac on there. It's my version of trying to make it healthy, but my stomach is so sensitive to most things that I don't try to get too far out of my box. Once I find something I like, I stick with it. So part of that is superstition and part of that is happenstance."

The interview was great, and put "seeing the Cavs' NBA Jam machine" near the top of my bucket list.