Ex-NBA star Jerry Stackhouse is obsessed with filming all aspects of his life

The former NBA All-Star constantly has a camera rolling to capture his life

Everyone has hobbies and things they're into outside of their work or school, and sometimes those interests can even turn into obsessions. Few people, however, are as into their side projects as Jerry Stackhouse, the former NBA All-Star and reigning NBA D-League Coach of the Year. 

Apparently Stackhouse, who retired from the NBA in 2013, has been filming nearly everything that goes on in his life, even going so far as to hire two cameramen to document his first season on the bench as head coach of Raptors 905. Via the New York Times:

For the past 20 years, Stackhouse has worked to preserve his personal history — on film. During his playing days, he set up tripods to record his workouts. He took camcorders to team meetings. This season, he hired two cameramen to document his every move as a first-year coach in the N.B.A. Development League. He had to build a computer with a vast amount of storage to house all the digital footage.

This sounds like one of those social media things where someone takes a picture of themselves every day for like five years or whatever, and then turns it into a video that shows the change over time, but it turns out Stackhouse just wants the videos for himself so he doesn't forget anything. 

The twist is that Stackhouse, 42, has rarely made any of his material available for public consumption. There are no plans for "Stackhouse: The Movie."

In attempting to explain why he stores a virtual duplicate of his basketball life on a 48-terabyte hard drive, Stackhouse pointed to his childhood. As a boy, he said, he loved thumbing through his family's photo albums. Vacations. Holidays. Reunions. Weddings. Without photos, he said, so many of those memories would have been lost.

"It always gave me a good feeling," he said. "It kind of told me a story, reminding me of what we were doing at those times."

Stackhouse has taken classes on how to use special cameras, spent thousands upon thousands of dollars, and even has separate condos just for his filming operation, in case you thought this was all off the cuff. 

I don't know that I'd want to have a camera rolling 24/7, but as someone who also loves looking at old photos, I can appreciate Stackhouse's project here. It may seem a bit strange right now, but I bet both he and his family will appreciate it in 25-30 years.