The cover for the 2022 edition of the basketball simulation video game NBA 2K will feature ace basketball player and Chicago Sky forward Candace Parker. The NBA 2K22 will hit the stores in September this year. This comes as a big surprise for the basketball sensation Parker as she is a big video game freak since childhood. She will be the first woman player to be featured on the cover of NBA 2K.

Taking to her Twitter, Candace Parker wrote, “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. I’m hopeful there will be many more badass females to follow .”

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Here’s the latest cover that fans cannot stop talking about.

NBA 2K was developed by Visual Concepts and published by 2K Sports, based on the National Basketball Association.

Who is Candace Parker?

Candace Parker is a professional American Basketball player. She plays for the Chicago Sky of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). 

Parker, one of basketball’s biggest stars, has proven to be one of the most marketable players to ever emerge from the WNBA. At 35, she’s a two-time league MVP, a six-time All-Star, WNBA champion and has two Olympic gold medals to her credit.

She started playing basketball as a child and won the 2003 and 2004 Gatorade National Girls Basketball Player of the Year awards in high school, becoming just the second junior and the only woman to receive the award twice.

In June 2008, Parker became the second woman in WNBA history to dunk during a regulation WNBA game, against the Indiana Fever. She was also named the Hanns-G ‘Go Beyond’ Rookie of the Month for the month of May and July 2008.

With this NBA 2K cover, Parker has added another feat to her list of firsts becoming the first woman to be featured in the game cover.