Earlier this morning, 2K Sports officially unveiled the cover athletes for their upcoming NBA 2K22 video game. Dallas Mavericks star Luka Doncic will don the game’s standard edition cover, with Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant joining Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Dirk Nowitzki on the installment’s 75th Anniversary Edition. The third edition — a WNBA 25th Anniversary cover — will feature Chicago Sky star Candace Parker.
This marks the first time in history that a WNBA star will be featured on the cover. Parker, a former two-time WNBA Most Valuable Player and six-time All-Star, had this to say of the honor:
Extremely proud and humbled to be the first female cover athlete in the history of @NBA2K
I’m honored to work with a company that’s investing in women and betting on us to succeed.