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No its not. For the last time, its a Japanese version not the US version. See here: http://www.japan.ea.com/nbalive2002/
See that Michael Jordan picture? Its the real deal.
It seems as if many didn't know about Jordan being the cover athlete as a member of the Wizards.
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I don't know either way, for I'm no specialist, but for what it's worth, here's a link to NBA Live covers throughout the games' entire existance. Yes, I acknowledge that it'd be possible some foreign covers are passed over, but it does seem rather thorough, with other years of foreign releases being acknowledged.
Again, I don't know anything about foreign releases of NBA Live, but there does seem to be a theme of official releases featuring that country's native on the cover (Yuta Tabuse for Japan in 2006).
http://www.nba-live.com/nbalivewiki/index.php/Cover
Edit: Nevermind, maybe. I've been kind of curious how this whole thing works, but I do believe it'd be more than possible that Japan perhaps released their version late in the year (so as to throw MJ on the cover) and I see a share of covers might not be represented by my link. For one, I see that Luol Deng was on the cover of NBA Live '09 in Britain, though again, Deng is British. If a country were ever going to make an exemption for not having a native on the cover however, I'd suppose it'd be for Michael Jordan.