{"id":29911,"date":"2021-07-16T20:05:54","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T20:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=29911"},"modified":"2021-07-16T20:05:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T20:05:54","slug":"candace-parker-makes-history-on-nba-2ks-cover","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/candace-parker-makes-history-on-nba-2ks-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Candace Parker Makes History On The Cover of NBA 2K"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_29966\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29966\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29966\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/07\/3db7024b-untitled-design-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WNBA star Candace Parker is gracing the cover of the <em>NBA 2K<\/em> as the first woman ever to appear on the basketball video game.\u00a0The Chicago Sky forward will be featured for the\u00a0WNBA 25th Anniversary Special Edition of\u00a0<em>NBA 2K22,\u00a0<\/em>which is set to be released on September 10.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Extremely proud and humbled to be the first female cover athlete in the history of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA2K?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">@NBA2K<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m honored to work with a company that\u2019s investing in women and betting on us to succeed. I\u2019m hopeful there will be many more badass females to follow \ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udffd\ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udffd <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WJan4YE7Qt\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/WJan4YE7Qt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Candace Parker (@Candace_Parker) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Candace_Parker\/status\/1415311818071756806?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">July 14, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">In a tweet, Parker wrote, &#8220;Extremely proud and humbled to be the first female cover athlete in the history of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA2K\"class=\"css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\" role=\"link\"  target=\"_blank\">@NBA2K<\/a>.<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> I\u2019m honored to work with a company that\u2019s investing in women and betting on us to succeed. I\u2019m hopeful there will be many more badass females to follow.&#8221; Aiming to disrupt the sexism that prevails in the sport, the WNBA was added to\u00a0<em>2K<\/em>\u00a0three years ago with\u00a0<em>NBA 2K20\u00a0<\/em>and <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Parker&#8217;s historic appearance is yet another milestone for female athletes fighting for equity in their arenas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For Parker herself, the cover merely tops off her all-star career. As a six-time WNBA All-Star, two-time WNBA MVP, and 2016 WNBA Finals MVP and the reigning Defensive Player of the Year, her athletic brilliance has shone on the court across her thirteen years in the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI grew up a video game fanatic, that\u2019s what I did, to the point where my brothers would give me the fake controller when I was younger where I think I was playing and I wasn\u2019t,\u201d Parker said in a statement to<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/31816516\/chicago-sky-candace-parker-first-woman-cover-nba-2k-game\" target=\"_blank\"> ESPN<\/a><\/em>. \u201cAll I wanted to do was just be like them. As a kid growing up, you dream of having your own shoe and dream of being in a video game. Those are an athlete as a kid\u2019s dreams. To be able to experience that, I don\u2019t take it lightly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For this year&#8217;s <em>NBA 2K <\/em>release, Luka Doncic, the Dallas Mavericks\u2019 guard, will be featured on the standard cover and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Dirk Nowitzki, and Kevin Durant will be featured on the NBA 75th Anniversary Edition cover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29094,"featured_media":29966,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[38,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Candace Parker Makes History On The Cover of NBA 2K - Grazia USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"WNBA star athlete Candace Parker will grace the cover of NBA 2K22 as the first woman ever, cementing her all-star legacy in the sport of basketball..\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/candace-parker-makes-history-on-nba-2ks-cover\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Candace Parker Makes History On The Cover of NBA 2K\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WNBA star athlete Candace Parker will grace the cover of NBA 2K22 as the first woman ever, cementing her all-star legacy in the sport of basketball..\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/candace-parker-makes-history-on-nba-2ks-cover\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Grazia USA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/07\/3db7024b-untitled-design-8.jpg?fit=1280%2C720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/candace-parker-makes-history-on-nba-2ks-cover\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/candace-parker-makes-history-on-nba-2ks-cover\/\",\"name\":\"Candace Parker Makes History On The Cover of NBA 2K - 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