NBA 2K11 Cover Athlete: Michael Jordan?

[youvalss]

I bet Pippen will be happy to take the job because according to ESPN...

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...he reportedly has lost more than $100 million due to bad investments and business deals.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?id=5231022

[bearschicago]

Quote: Originally Posted by Shinyhubcaps

Obviously you've got it, so it's a real thing, but I thought the Jordan cover was the "bootleg" copy? That's probably not why it doesn't work anymore, but it's like any MLB jersey on e-Bay that sells for less than $100 and says "Authentic."

WTF? No! Like I said before, it just isn't the US version. It doesn't work anymore because it has too many scratches. I bought it brand new when it came out and it worked fine. This ain't no "bootleg" LMFAO. It's the real deal.

I believe the slim PS2 reads disks better compared to the fat PS2(which is the one I have) so if I bought the slim one it may still work.

[OGKing]

So sorry to say, but that is the bootleg copy.

[bearschicago]

Quote: Originally Posted by OGKing

So sorry to say, but that is the bootleg copy.

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.

[youvalss]

I don't know. The game came out before the season. Unless they got a photo of MJ as a wizard from the pre-season games...that's weird. What was the release date in Japan?

By the way, the photo looks low quality... And what's going on in the background?!

[VDusen04]

Quote: Originally Posted by bearschicago

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.

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.

[bearschicago]

Quote: Originally Posted by VDusen04

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

So you guys think I'm lying and EA Japan is also lying about Jordan being the cover athlete of Live 2002? What more do I have to do to convince you guys?

As I am typing this I just looked at the game manual and the cover is Michael Jordan.

Seems as if many did not know about MJ being in the cover and I don't expect US sites to know about it either.

[youvalss]

I still say, PM Mike Wang and ask him to ask Mike. 2K got 2 Mikes this time, so use it