K Games announced Wednesday that NBA 2K26 will be released on Sept. 5 and Angel Reese and Carmelo Anthony will be featured on special edition covers. Thunder guard and reigning NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was announced a day prior as the cover athlete for the video game's standard edition,

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander isn't the only basketball star who will grace the cover of an NBA 2K26 game this year.

The WNBA edition, meanwhile, features Angel Reese, as the Chicago Sky star gets her first video game cover as well. Reese joins A'ja Wilson, Sabrina Ionescu, Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi and Candace Parker as WNBA stars to grace the cover ever since the game added a WNBA cover starting with 2K22.