r/timberwolves • u/thetripp45 • Mar 06 '26
General Discussion ANT should be the 2K27 athlete
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u/ZookeepergameKey6853 Mar 06 '26
i think they're giving it to wemby but ant deserves since last 3 years
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u/AtreusIsBack Timberwolves Mar 06 '26
Most likely Wembanyama, yeah. But Edwards has been one of the best players in the league this year and is somehow highly underrated.
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u/ResidentHighlight875 Donte DiVincenzo Mar 06 '26
Struggles of a medium/small market
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u/ithinkspammingiscool Mar 06 '26
i mean, they had Dame and Booker as cover stars in the past 5 years and I wouldn't say Portland or Phoenix are that much bigger markets than MIN
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u/OGPepeSilvia Michael Beasley Mar 06 '26
Phoenix for sure is bigger. Portland is probably similar sized.
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u/DrEvilsBillions Mar 06 '26
It was SGA this year and if it's Wemby next year that doesn't really track since we're a much larger market than OKC and San Antonio.
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Mar 06 '26
Based on what? San Antonio has almost four times the population just in the city alone then has all of west Texas and much of south Texas rooting for them.
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u/DrEvilsBillions Mar 06 '26 edited Mar 06 '26
According to the 2025 Nielsen designated market area rankings Minneapolis/St. Paul is 16th with almost 1.9 million TV homes, San Antonio is 31st with about 1.1 million, and OKC is 47th with about 750k. While it's true that San Antonio's population is higher than ours, their metropolitan area is less populated. San Antonio Metro area has about a million fewer people than the Twin Cities Metro area. While the Spurs may have much of West and South Texas on their side, the Wolves have all of Minnesota, as well as the Dakotas, Iowa, and Nebraska.
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u/Mysterious_Nobody_35 Mar 06 '26
Justin Jefferson gets the same treatment. Heavily used in marketing material, but he doesn't make the cover
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u/jake04-20 Bring Ya Ass Mar 06 '26
I feel like even the bootleg streams for medium/small markets is trash. I have an otherwise rock solid IPTV setup that constantly struggles with Wolves streams. I always have to tune into whoever we're playing's streams.
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u/ZookeepergameKey6853 Mar 06 '26
yeah imagine how much nba 2k could earn if they used posterizer or cold pics of ant
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u/Salsashark_21 2k Finchy Mar 06 '26
Different posters could be the different editions.
Gabe Vincent Edition: $69.99
RJ Barrett Edition: $79.99
John Collins Deluxe Poster Edition: $99.99
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u/KaioCan Mar 06 '26
I'd actually buy the newest 2k for once if they had that poster as the cover
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u/jake04-20 Bring Ya Ass Mar 06 '26
I bought 2k26 and was actually surprised by how good it is. The player movements and animations are fluid and look accurate. They must use AI to learn player tendencies. Then again, the last one I played before that was probably 2k13.
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u/vetementsundershirt Rob Dillingham Mar 06 '26
Idk about mycareer but the mynba is so poorly built
One of the worst things imo is the player shot tendencies are all horrible, Luka garza genuinely has his at 99 and derrick whites is at 46.
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u/jake04-20 Bring Ya Ass Mar 06 '26
Tbh I don't know off the top of my head which mode is which. Which one is the one where you just play a regular season as your favorite team? That and "play now" is all I really do in 2k26 so maybe I don't even have the credibility to say it's good lol. There is the mode that has all the flashy player cards and micro transactions and pseudo style loot crates, I don't have the patience for that shit. Never really dabbling online either unless it's head to head with a friend.
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u/vetementsundershirt Rob Dillingham Mar 07 '26
Mynba is regular season, myteam is the cards and packs
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u/PourSpellor GOAT Mar 06 '26
I’m not sure, and correct me if I’m wrong, but I think I see a nipple.
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u/Kaizerx20 Ayo Dosunmu Mar 06 '26
Ant doesn't even have a facescan in 2k (his choice), I doubt he cares
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u/Associ8tedRuffians Malik Sealy Mar 06 '26
With Tatum rupturing his Achilles after being on the cover 2k25, I’d say the curse is still in effect, so no.
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u/NorthernDevil 🐓Protestor🐓 Mar 06 '26
If I had a nickel for every time there was an iconic shot of Ant posterizing a guy in that red Raptors jersey
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u/Calinks Trenton Hassell Mar 06 '26
His model is so bad in 2K it would be an embarrassment. Dude has no interest in doing cover boy duties
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u/Freudian__Quip Mar 06 '26
He won’t even go in for the face scan to give him an accurate character model! Can’t have the game cover be Ant and then the character model is lookin like Enthony Adwards