To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the WNBA, two-time WNBA MVP and Chicago Sky star Candace Parker will become the first woman to grace the cover of the NBA 2K video game series. She'll appear on the edition of NBA 2K22 that's sold atGamestop when the game is released on September 10. And this should be the last move to finally convince video game makers that it's been time to make a WNBA video game.
Parker's cover announcement comes less than a year after NBA 2K21 became the first video game in history to offer a single-player career mode for the WNBA, allowing players to play an entire WNBA season, run the league, and take a player they created through the arduous journey of making and thriving in the association. There is no word on if that mode will return in NBA 2K22, but Parker being placed on the cover is a good indication we'll be able to drain threes with the New York Liberty's Sabrina Ionescu this fall. That said, it has long been time for the WNBA to escape the NBA's shadow and shine in its own video game.
