NBA 2K13 Cover Athletes Are Kevin Durant, Blake Griffin and Derrick Rose

[iLLosophy]

It's really sad when you have a large community of people that are doing a way better job of supporting a game for free (sliders, rosters, and in this case, game covers) than the people that are actually getting paid to do it.

[poloelite]

You make a cover to sell games. The guys that are on the cover are all liked across the country/world. Kobe had to rehabilitate his image for years before 2k10. Was he deserving before that, of course. But that charge hurt his image. Tiger is the same case as well. Lebron's image is still in the crappers for the most part (his own doing). He won a ring, but a lot of people give credit to the refs and the others don't care that he won in regards to his image, they still dislike him. It's going to take years before I think people would be comfortable buying a product solely marketed by him outside of shoes. I know some people might comment that they would buy it, but trust me there are 15 to 20 people who wouldn't for everyone one of you that would.

2k did a decent job by picking good/great players with marketable images for this year's covers. No one is spewing hate for their product or the cover athletes which is exactly what you want. Lebron would over shadow their game and make it a debate over whether people will buy it or boycott the game based on the cover alone. I personally wanted to see an original Dream Team cover or a cover of Durant, Love and Kyrie, but I'm sure the market size in Minnesota and Cleveland made Chicago and L.A. better options.

[23]

I wish they could've done something different with that picture

Too many clashing colors, red on red, teal on red with an orange like floor, Rose's leg looks like he went to bionic man surgery

Like the choices, not sure of the pic

[NFCastle]

That's a joke that lebron isn't on the cover. He just posted one of the eat seasons in recent history. MVP. Finals MVP on the championship team. Best player in the league and no love.

[LD2k]

Glad we can finally unveil the cover to everyone!

We'll be talking about more details soon.

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Quote: Originally Posted by NFCastle

That's a joke that lebron isn't on the cover. He just posted one of the eat seasons in recent history. MVP. Finals MVP on the championship team. Best player in the league and no love.

Yall need to quit

Maybe LeBron asked for too much

You know like Barkley and Reggie Miller did

Did you even stop to consider that? You have no idea what the guys stipulations are

[Super Glock]

I really like the cover, good job 2K.

[LD2k]

Also, you can pre-order (multiple retailer options + All-Star add-on content) from here - http://2kgam.es/BuyNBA2K13

Still working on International links.