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Gracing the cover of NBA 2K was ‘a bucket list thing’

Gracing the cover of NBA 2K was ‘a bucket list thing’

CT: First, congratulations on the big extension. You also extended with Nike, correct? Well-deserved. And, landed the cover of 2K.

How did this come together? I don’t know if you looked at the betting markets, but you were behind a couple of names on the list. How did this come together, walk us through it.

DB: It’s been quite some time. It’s not something they do quickly. We did the photoshoot during the season. Obviously for me, it’s a bucket list thing that I’ve always had. Honestly, the top of the bucket list.

Just having a connection with gaming and the game 2K, playing it my entire life. To grace the cover and to understand the magnitude of it and what comes with it is everything I signed up for.

CT: When you play the game, what two teams are you playing as? Obviously, the Suns are off the board.

DB: It usually varies, me and my buddies just randomly select. You do random three times and the opponent picks.

CT: Who invented that? I think it’s a universal rule.

DB: It’s good, though. It gets you playing with different teams, so people don’t just play with the heavy hitters. It shows real skill.

CT: Do you remember the first time you were in a video game?

I mean, growing up, I always created a player. I’ve done that for a while. Thinking back to all the way NCAA football, I used to create a left-handed quarterback.

CT: Did you play football growing up? Were you good?

DB: I did. Very good. Very good.

And, you know, playing 2K creating my own player. And then they started the whole MyPark thing, it just amplified everything. I’ve always created a player, and then my rookie year was the first time face scans got in the game. I remember it was summer league and they got our face scans. It was a big moment for me.

CT: Did you wear that suit with all the balls?

DB: No, I didn’t do that until recently with the cover and everything. I went after it, I got a good stretch in before.

I made a complaint to 2K about my player before and his movements and how he moved. But now I think in ’23 he’s gonna be a lot better.

CT: Talk me through sharing this honor with Diana Taurasi, Sue Bird and Michael Jordan. Have you worked with them previously, and what does it mean to share the cover with them?

DB: I haven’t worked with them in the past, but I’ve been around (Taurasi) for a while in Phoenix and have the utmost respect for her. I call her the GOAT. Michael Jordan the same, and I feel the same way about Sue Bird. Just to be…

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