{"id":383245,"date":"2026-07-23T01:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T01:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/383245\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T01:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T01:50:12","slug":"victor-wembanyama-named-nba-2k27-cover-athlete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/383245\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama named NBA 2K27 cover athlete"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Spurs star Victor Wembanyama has officially been named a NBA 2K27 cover athlete, game makers announced Wednesday. <\/p>\n

Wemby will be the first San Antonio Spurs player to appear on the video game’s cover. His image will be featured on the Standard Edition cover. <\/p>\n

“Nothing is out of reach for Victor Wembanyama, including becoming the face of the league. The reigning Defensive Player of the Year is shattering records at an unprecedented pace, and his talent can only be described as otherworldly. The future has arrived and it\u2019s on the cover of NBA 2K27,” NBA 2K shared on their official site<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Caitlin Clark and Derrick Rose are also being featured as cover stars. You can preorder the game now on their site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Spurs star Victor Wembanyama has officially been named a NBA 2K27 cover athlete, game makers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-383245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}