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My 15-year-old kid has created a custom NBA 2K9 roster consisting entirely of 7-foot-11 point guards.

“It creates some real matchup problems,” he says.

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My son and I are watching a TV commercial for the Resident Evil 5 video game.

“Rated M for Mature,” the commercial says.

“Is anyone who plays video games really ‘mature,’” I ask, using finger quotes to emphasize “mature.”

No reaction from the boy, a video game player himself.

“You see what I mean?” I ask him.

“No,” he says.

It’s 7 p.m. and my son’s ready to make a deal . . .

“If I study for an hour,” he says, “can I go play basketball at 8?”

His mom is skeptical. “You just played Xbox for five hours,” she says.

He shakes his head vehemently. “Four-and-a-half hours,” he says.

My son needs an African-American name for a character he created in NFL Street.

“How about Kareem of Wheat?” I suggest.

He decides to go with Delondre McWreck . . .

My son’s explanation to his mom on why he can’t turn off Madden 2008 like she asked him to:

I can’t stop in the middle of a game. Roger Goodell has not sent me a notice that we can do that. Unless there’s a weather delay or fans throwing things on the field, which there isn’t, so that can’t happen.