Look: Suns SG Devin Booker’s cover for NBA 2K23 revealed
Jul 7, 2022, 6:34 AM | Updated: 12:10 pm
(Photo via Devin Booker/Twitter)
(Photo via Devin Booker/Twitter)
Phoenix Suns All-Star Devin Booker’s cover for the NBA 2K23 video game was revealed on Thursday.
It’s been a big 24 hours for Booker, after the All-Star formally inked a four-year supermax extension through the 2027-28 season worth a projected $214 million on Wednesday night.
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🎮Answer the call in #NBA2K23 with our Cover Athlete @DevinBookPre-order NBA 2K23 now: https://t.co/qiAxVeTR4S pic.twitter.com/Yhp9FkSdrZ
— NBA 2K (@NBA2K) July 7, 2022
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— Book (@DevinBook) July 7, 2022
Phoenix also has Mercury legend Diana Taurasi sharing a 2K23 cover, the WNBA edition, with friend and long-time Seattle Storm star Sue Bird.
The 25-year-old is coming off his first All-NBA season, making First Team as a guard, and finished fourth in the MVP race.
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He is a two-time All-Star who averaged 25.6 points per game or more in each of his last four seasons, a career-high 26.8 per contest in 2021-22.
Booker is the first Suns drafted player to make the All-NBA First Team since Amar’e Stoudemire and Steve Nash in 2006-07.
Booker, a gamer and Twitch streamer, is also the first Suns player in the game’s existence — which dates back to NBA 2K released in 1999 — to land on the cover.
Past covers have highlighted then-future Suns like Miami Heat center Shaquille O’Neal on 2K6 and 2K7 and New Orleans Hornets point guard Chris Paul on 2K8.
NBA Live has not had a Suns player on the cover.
NBA 08 produced by San Diego Studio, which makes MLB The Show, had Stoudemire during his prime in Phoenix.
Booker had a 91 rating in NBA 2K22’s final update. Perhaps the cover athlete will get a boost in the next edition.
