Candace Parker was chosen to represent NBA2K22. This marks the first time a female basketball player has received this honour. Her Los Angeles Sparks mentor Lisa Leslie was the one who opened up the possibility for women to NBA2king participate in basketball video games. Leslie was a Humungous Entertainment's Backyard Basketball player (2001) prior to the launch of PlayStation 5 and 3.
It was Kevin Garnett, the Minnesota Timberwolves basketball player that was featured on the cover of Backyard Basketball? Leslie was also featured in the game. You can play as Garnett and Leslie.
Sheryl Swoopes as well as Cynthia Cooper, Houston Comets star players, were not present during the 2001 WNBA season. Cooper has been a two-time winner of the MVP and four-time champion retired after the season of 2000. He returned in 2003. Swoopes who was a part of those four championships and was the league's reigning MVP, did not play in 2001 due to a ruptured ACL.
Following her role in helping the Sparks achieve their first title in September of 2001, Leslie won not only the MVP award in 2001, but also the Finals MVP. Just one month later Backyard Basketball was released with her selected as the sole female player in real life (Garnett was the only men's player) instead of Cooper and Swoopes.
Cooper and Swoopes were the first to be recognized as the actual faces of Buy 2K MT PS4 the WNBA but it was Leslie, who was the first to be known as the WNBA's face for Backyard Basketball's intended audience which included me. Leslie was the very first WNBA athlete I saw and was the one who helped me enter women's basketball.
