Beginning within the 1999-00 season, NBA 2K turned a staple of basketball gaming, finally turning into the preferred recreation for NBA aficionados.
An vital facet of NBA 2K and one thing that’s turn out to be fairly the celebrated honor is discovering out which participant would be the recreation’s cowl athlete yearly.
For the primary 5 editions of the sport, from the unique NBA 2K by means of ESPN NBA Basketball (2K4), the duvet athlete was Allen Iverson. Then got here Ben Wallace, then Shaquille O’Neal, after which a number of different superstars after them.
Kobe Bryant aka Black Mamba leads the best way thus far with six completely different covers (2K10, 2K17, and two editions for 2K21 and 2K24), adopted by Iverson (2K, 2K1, 2K2, 2K3 and 2K4) and Michael Jordan (2K11, 2K12, 2K16 and two 2K23 editions).
Beneath is a gallery of each NBA 2K cowl within the recreation’s historical past.
