Candace Parker will be the first woman on the cover of NBA 2K

WNBA star Candace Parker is the primary feminine basketball participant to grace the duvet of the favored online game franchise NBA 2K. The 2-time MVP will likely be featured on the particular version of NBA 2K22 in honor of the WNBA’s twenty fifth season when it releases on September 10, the corporate introduced Wednesday.

“The quilt of NBA 2K is such a pivotal platform to encourage younger ballers, and I needed future WNBA stars to know that they are often cowl athletes too,” Parker mentioned in a press release.

“Illustration issues, so it is a particular second of progress for the game and the sequence. To be a part of this historic cowl is a testomony to the expansion and rising reputation of the ladies’s recreation, and I am proud to be the primary feminine cowl athlete to be the face of NBA 2K.”

Parker, 35, is in her Fifteenth-year within the WNBA. She’s at present in her first season with the Chicago Sky after spending the remainder of her profession with the Los Angeles Sparks. She’s one of the vital adorned gamers within the league, incomes a championship with the Sparks in 2016, two MVPs (2008 and 2013), and 6 All-Star appearances. She additionally helped Crew USA convey residence two gold medals in 2008 and 2012.

“I am honored to work with an organization that is investing in ladies and betting on us to succeed,” Parker added. “I am hopeful there will likely be many extra badass females to comply with.”

The online game franchise additionally introduced the duvet athlete for NBA 2K22’s normal version, Luka Doncic, and mentioned three gamers – Kevin Durant, Dirk Nowitzki, and Kareem Abdul-Jabba – would seem on the sport’s particular version for the NBA’s seventy fifth anniversary.