It's bordering on absurd and even the vice president of 2K marketing seems to know it. Michael Jordan, one of the most beloved and digitally underutilized NBA players of all time, will grace the cover of NBA 2K11 according to a CNBC report. 

"We've made a lot of progress over the past 10 years, but we know we have the best NBA videogame ever made here," 2K's marketing dude Jason Argent told CNBC (via Kotaku). "So we thought to ourselves how can we embody that and there was only one person on that list who we wanted to have and that was Michael Jordan. Actually getting this done is the most ridiculous win of all-time."

It's bordering on absurd and even the vice president of 2K marketing seems to know it. Michael Jordan, one of the most beloved and digitally underutilized NBA players of all time, will grace the cover of NBA 2K11 according to a CNBC report. 

"We've made a lot of progress over the past 10 years, but we know we have the best NBA videogame ever made here," 2K's marketing dude Jason Argent told CNBC (via Kotaku). "So we thought to ourselves how can we embody that and there was only one person on that list who we wanted to have and that was Michael Jordan. Actually getting this done is the most ridiculous win of all-time."

Aiiiiir JORDAN

Damn, finally, Michael on/in a Basketball game

Clearly the type of news that brings people to this site!

No playable Bill Clinton, no dice.

I'd still like basketball if Scottie Pipper, Michael Jordan, the Mailman and John Stockton were still playing.  Who the hell cares about Allen "I get 45 points by shooting 73 times/game" Iverson and the ridiculous dunkfest that is now the NBA.

So much sports games coverage.  This is the most coverage of this type on GB since... ever, I think.

 
" Actually getting this done is the most ridiculous win of all-time." 
 
LOL 

This is more a commentary on how boring NBA basketball has been in the last 10 years or so.

" I'd still like basketball if Scottie Pipper, Michael Jordan, the Mailman and John Stockton were still playing.  Who the hell cares about Allen "I get 45 points by shooting 73 times/game" Iverson and the ridiculous dunkfest that is now the NBA. "

In other news, he will also grace the cover of the next 2k baseball game.

" @Travis: haha nope, last time I watched any NBA was back when White Chocolate and Webber were ripping it up for Sacramento and Dikembe was wagging fingers. "

Where's my NBA Street Vol II?  I want to play as Jordan right now, also as the Snowman.

I read about this. I hope they score Dennis Rodman. He probably needs the money. I would love to play as the great Bull's teams.
 

I don't know. He doesn't look very lifelike. 
 

Will this cover feature Jordan with his new Hitler-stache?
 
If so, this becomes a must buy!
 

Don't forget, he was also the villain in Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden. I believe it may be his greatest work.

I was already gonna get the game. Now I'm gonna get it more.

Great news! Michael Jordan is my fav basketball player and I just hope the game is as great. :)

Sweet, still don't care for sports games though.

If they really want to make 2K the "greatest ever" they need to get Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on the cover, not Jordan.

Nice article, Buff Brad!

SPORTS! Evil, Be Gone! XXXXX

If they put manage to put that whole mid-90's Chicago Bulls team in the game, then you can mark this down as the 1st b-ball video game I've bought in a decade.

AWESOME! 
 
Even more awesome would be the words "...and Scottie Pippen is in too!!!". 
 
You can't have Jordan without his right hand man. 
 
As for everyone who wants to say "well, if they want to get the greatest player ever, get (insert other player here)", you people are FOOLISH!  Jordan has far more achievements under his belt than ANY other player in the game.  Not only is he the greatest basketball player to live, but he's arguably the greatest athlete to ever live! 
 
@snide said:

" I don't know. He doesn't look very lifelike. 
 

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Amazing !! Greatest of All Time.

jakob 187 said "As for everyone who wants to say "well, if they want to get the greatest player ever, get (insert other player here)", you people are FOOLISH!  Jordan has far more achievements under his belt than ANY other player in the game.  Not only is he the greatest basketball player to live, but he's arguably the greatest athlete to ever live! "
 
I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who said that, and I actually have a lot of cold hard evidence to back up my claim that Jordan is not the greatest ever. I think he's either the second or the third best, depending on the circumstances of the ranking, but there's no way you can say that he has "far more achievements than ANY other player in the game." Simply untrue.

" So much sports games coverage.  This is the most coverage of this type on GB since... ever, I think. "

Space Jam.

Guess the next year's installment of this NBA game will just be Jordan's shoe (or maybe a sock) along with a basketball as it's going to be hard to top putting Jordan on the cover.

About time.

Next stop: Space Jam HD Remix.

Sweet, love the man.

For that reason alone , I'm buying the game.     BTW    I don't care if the game sucks a little.

Cool I guess

i tell you, its the 90's all over again, and fades are back in style!!

Hes going to get the sports game cover curse and break his check signing hand so he won't be able to pay any of the Bobcats players.

im the biggest MJ fan around and i also love NBA 2k. while im happy this is finally being done (the last time you could play as MJ was nba live 2002) it still seems a little weird. i mean he has been retired for 7 years now and while its a cool get for 2K is it really a big deal now? im guessing there finally going to make "classic teams" or something along those lines. i wonder if MJ settled low for this so he still seems relevant and has people talking about him.