Phoenix Suns All-Star Devin Booker will be the cover athlete on the NBA 2K23 video game, according to The Athletic’s Shams Charania.
Booker and the Suns are finalizing a four-year supermax extension through the 2027-28 season worth $214 million, according to Charania. The contract could be signed next week.
The 25-year-old is coming off his first All-NBA season, making First Team as a guard, and finished fourth in the MVP race.
He is a two-time All-Star who averaged 25.6 points per game or more in each of his last four seasons, a career-high 26.8 per contest in 2021-22.
Booker is the first Suns drafted player to make the All-NBA First Team since Amar’e Stoudemire and Steve Nash in 2006-07.
Booker, a gamer and Twitch streamer, is also the first Suns player in the game’s existence, which dates back to NBA 2K in 1999, to land on the cover.
Past covers have highlighted future Suns like Miami Heat center Shaquille O’Neal on 2K6 and 2K7 and New Orleans Hornets point guard Chris Paul on 2K8.
NBA Live has not had a Suns player on the cover.
NBA 08 produced by San Diego Studio, which makes MLB The Show, had Stoudemire during his prime in Phoenix.
Booker had a 91 rating in NBA 2K22’s final update. Perhaps the cover athlete will get a boost in the next edition.