Countless NBA players have experienced this feeling.

Countless NBA players have experienced this feeling. But not one WNBA participant had until lately. When NBA 2K20 was released in 2019, it was the very first time the yearly match -- that premiered in 1999 -- featured WNBA players. Her predecessors didn't get the chance to NBA 2K21 MT perform as themselves, but Washington Mystics wing Aerial Powers could not help but make a comparison when she played as herself. "This is probably the way the guys feel when they get in the league and they get a opportunity to play themselves on 2K," she explained. "It's just surreal and can be pretty fun."

"I'd have never believed they'd implement girls to the game," Powers told USA TODAY Sports. Dallas Wings shield Allisha Gray has been playing 2K because Shaquille O'Neal graced the cover in 2005, and that she has difficulty believing that she's a part of it. Alexis Jones, who was waived by the Atlanta Dream in August, has consistently enjoyed making her own participant on 2K and tends to mold his game after her very own. This is going to be the first year she won't need to create herself at the picture of a man.

"That has been my dream come true, I really don't know about everybody else," Jones stated. "I know that is one thing I always dreamed of as a little girl -- to be in a 2K game. This opportunity to create yourself and build yourself and be a woman is dope." The importance of building your WNBA player can't be overstated, particularly for young women who wish to play basketball or are simply fans of the sport. "I think it's astonishing that little girls can grow up and really play the game and understand that they can have the very same goals and accomplishments as men," Jones stated. Powers echoed the opinion and how significant representation is for young women. She also wants to see more advancement together with women in the video game industry generally.

Powers flows and plays video games on Twitch and has become particularly active in gaming since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. She even hosted an all-female 2K championship in October that included a 30-minute opening musical set by Grammy Award winning performer DJ Jazzy Jeff. The stream garnered over 26,000 viewers. The 2019 WNBA winner says if she plays video games she is occasionally met with misogynistic messages from other consumers, and she hopes that new modes like"The W" can make it much easier for girls playing video games. "It kind of gives the younger girls a good look and says,'Hey, it's alright to be a lady, such as basketball and wish to play,' since I understand some of their male friends might have a different view," Powers said. "But when you Find the girls from the game, it is like,'Hey, that is all right.'" In a word, most consumers find making shots consistently to be: difficult. Having logged a while on the game myself, I agree this facet of NBA 2K is definitely harder. However, I'm part of Buy MT NBA 2K21 the group that doesn't want to see anything changed. The gameplay is strong and a bit more tactical in every mode, and also the changes to shooting are mainly part of the quality.