NBA 2K24: 10 Things We Already Know

10. The Cover Star

It's Kobe Bryant.

It had to be Kobe Bryant.

The famed and feared number 24 shooting guard of the Los Angeles Lakers, Bryant is an all-timer, with five NBA Championships and eighteen appearances as an NBA All-Star to his name, and averaged 35.4PPG at the height of his success. His positioning as this year's cover star was a no-brainer, though 2K and Visual Concepts have gone above and beyond to celebrate the late icon of the court in what will be his fourth time on an NBA 2K video game cover.

Kobe appears on both the standard edition of the game and a special Black Mamba edition. Both titles opt for a yellow and purple-inspired background - the Lakers colours - with the standard edition displaying a young Kobe going for a dunk and the Black Mamba special seeing a latter-year Bryant breaking a sweat. These are available for £69.99 (£59.99 if purchasing the PlayStation 4 or Xbox One copy) and £89.99, respectively, and will come with respective goodies to tide you over in MyCAREER and MyTEAM.

Sabrina Ionescu, the number 20 point guard of the New York Liberty, will also don the cover for NBA 2K's third WNMBA edition, which retails for the same price as the standard edition.