
It’s plausible that a hooper from the W could get one of the remaining two nods as well. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Dirk Nowitzki and Kevin Durant. Advertisement click to enlarge + 3 FLYING HIGH: Lillard's epic.


#Nba 2k21 cover license#
NBA 2K20 featured the WNBA license for the first time, a license that will return in 2K21. Below, a gallery of every NBA 2K cover in the game’s history. Trail Blazers PG Damian Lillard will be a cover athlete for NBA 2K21's Current-Gen Standard Edition on PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Stadia. Dwyane Wade was the Legends Edition cover athlete last season. It stands to reason that 2K21 may feature a Legends Edition cover as they’ve done in the past, although that hasn’t been officially confirmed. ESPN’s Andrew Lopez reports that Williamson had a previous endorsement deal with 2K. There’s no guarantee that he’s one of the final two cover athletes, however. The developers of the iconic series are expected to reveal all three cover athletes this week, leaving plenty of room for speculation as hoops fans make their predictions as to which players will get the last two nods.Ī trailer for the latest installment of the game that dropped earlier this month showed New Orleans Pelicans rookie Zion Williamson featured prominently. Lillard will join a long list of NBA stars to be named the face of the series, trailing NBA 2K20 cover star Anthony Davis. (CNN) Kobe Bryant is being memorialized on the cover of the video game NBA 2K21. The producers of NBA 2K21 have pegged Damian Lillard as one of three cover athletes for this year’s rendition of the popular video game. Kobe Bryant is being memorialized on the cover of NBA 2K21.
#Nba 2k21 cover update#
Update #1, July 1: The second player officially named as a NBA 2K21 cover athlete is Zion Williamson. NBA 2K20 standard edition cover athlete, Anthony Davis, passed the torch to the NBA 2K21 cover athletes earlier this morning, with the first post on the NBA 2K TikTok channel. Bryant was previously the game’s sole cover player in 2010. 2K has announced NBA 2K21 will feature three cover athletes, which will be revealed over the course of three days, June 30 through July 2. Bryant will grace a pair of Mamba Forever Edition covers. The official NBA 2K TikTok account yes, that’s now a thing has announced that there will be three NBA 2K21 cover reveals taking place next week on June 30th, July 1st, and July 2nd. After revealing that Damian Lillard would be appearing on the. Update #2, July 2: The third and final NBA 2K21 cover athlete will be none other than Kobe Bryant, the game’s developers have revealed. As expected, Zion Williamson will be donning the cover of NBA 2K21 on the PS5 and Xbox Series X iterations of the basketball sim.
