Rumor: Mavs’ Doncic & Nowitzki To Be Featured On NBA 2K22 Covers?

The Dallas Mavericks could be getting a lot of spotlight soon with both Luka Doncic and Dirk Nowitzki potentially gracing the covers of NBA 2K22 this year.

Dalton Trigg | Jun 14, 2021

From the moment Dallas Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic cut ties with EA Sports, we figured an NBA 2K feature would be happening in the near future, and that near future might be in three or four months.

According to 2K Intel on Twitter, it appears that the NBA 2K22 standard edition cover featuring Doncic has leaked. The account deleted the tweet featuring the image below, but it wasn’t the first time we have heard that Doncic would be on this year’s cover.

And to make things even more exciting for Mavs fans, Doncic might not be the only Maverick to be on a 2K cover this year. According to a rumor from a well-known gaming leaks Reddit channel, Mavs icon Dirk Nowitzki could be gracing the 2K22 Legend Edition cover. Last year, New Orleans Pelicans forward Zion Williamson was 2K’s Standard Edition cover athlete, and the late, great Kobe Bryant was the Legend Edition cover athlete.

Yo #MFFL this was a list I seen via @LordBalvin tweets. It’s a rumor type deal but it’s scheduled to be a thing on E3 . pic.twitter.com/b4NQWxHGcy
— Chris Henderson (@See_Hendo) June 4, 2021

Over the years, the Mavs haven’t really received a lot of spotlight in the video gaming world. But now, with Doncic’s meteoric rise to stardom at just 22 years old, and Nowitzki soon to be a first-ballot Hall-of-Famer, it looks like the Mavs are about to get a two-for-one deal from 2K to make up for previous years being overlooked.

It’s early, and these are currently just rumors, but where there’s smoke, there’s fire. And there’s been smoke coming from all different directions for the last few months.

Published Jun 14, 2021

DALTON TRIGG

Dalton Trigg is the Editor-In-Chief for Dallas Basketball, as well as the Executive Editor overseeing Inside The Rockets, Inside The Spurs, All Knicks, and The Magic Insider. He is the founder and host for the Mavs Step Back Podcast, which is a proud part of the Blue Wire podcast network. Trigg graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi’s College of Business and Economic Development with a bachelor’s degree in entrepreneurship in 2016. After spending a few years with multiple Dallas Mavericks-related blogs, including SB Nation’s Mavs Moneyball, Trigg joined DallasBasketball.com as a staff writer in 2018 and never looked back. At the start of 2022, he was promoted to the EIC title he holds now. Through the years, Trigg has conducted a handful of high-profile one-on-one interviews to add to his resume — in both writing and podcasting. Some of his biggest interviews have been with Mavs owner Mark Cuban, Mavs GM Nico Harrison, now-retired legend Dirk Nowitzki and many other current/former players and team staffers. Many of those interviews and other articles by Trigg have been aggregated by other well-known sports media websites, such as Yahoo Sports, CBS Sports, Bleacher Report and others. You can find Trigg on all major social media channels, but his most prevalent platform is on Twitter. Whether it’s posting links to his DBcom work, live-tweeting Mavs games or merely giving his opinions on things going on with Dallas and the rest of the NBA, the daily content never stops rolling. For any inquiries, please email Dalton@MavsStepBack.com.