2K fans celebrate NBA 2K24 cover reveal honoring late legend Kobe Bryant

The NBA 2K series is gearing up for its next release in NBA 2K24, and both fans of the annual basketball sim and the sport itself are thrilled with today’s news that the late great Kobe Bryant will man the cover of the game’s two special editions.

Kobe will grace the cover of both the “Kobe Bryant” edition and the “Black Mamba” edition, although there’s been no confirmed or leaked image of the base game cover yet. This is his first set of covers since he was the namesake and cover athlete for both versions of the “Mamba Forever” editions of NBA 2K21, which were the first installments of NBA 2K to release after his death in 2020 as a result of a tragic helicopter crash that took the lives of Bryant, his daughter Gigi, and seven other passengers.