NBA Live website is up Cover boy 6-21-06

[Nick]

It's strange that they would pick T-Mac, since they usually opt for the new upcoming identity. (Wade, Melo, Francis (at the time), Walker)

Actually, the more i look at the picture, the more i realise it's not T-mac.

Even though i don't know why i'm looking into such a pointless issue Look at the muscle definement, he's obviously cut. Tmac's arms muscles don't bulge that much. So that makes it either LeBron James or Chauncy Billups in my mind. But with that said, if you look at the other silouhette, the dude has a hell-skinny head, lol. So i'm gonna put my money on Chauncy Billups.

Chauncy, now that i think about it, is the kind of guy you would want representing your game too. Solid and fundamental.

I guess LeBron is the best choice, market-wise, but the headshape has me convinced that they chose Billups.

WOOOOO WHO CARES

[cam]

WOOOOO WHO CARES

exactly. And as donatello mentioned above, I believe it's just filler art. C'mon, that would be stupid to put such a shilouette and have Nash and Dirk as options.......

[Fitzy]

the shilouette at the top looks alot like billups

[J@3]

5 years of greatness

Well live 2002 was a great game on the ps2, and its been 5 years since then, so i guess its been 5 years of greatness?

Or 5 years since greatness.

[Ruff Ryder]

Hmm, well Jordan was in Live 2002 and 2003, so maybe it's 5 years and greatness.

[Null17]

based on the silhouette,my guess, like many, is tmac or lebron...

i think the 5 yrs of greatness thing isbecasue, EA canada only started with live 2002?

[Andrew]

Good looking out. As far as the cover player goes, my vote goes to T-Mac based on that teaser.

i think the 5 yrs of greatness thing isbecasue, EA canada only started with live 2002?

No, they've produced the series for its entire run.

[Silas]

Then why cant it be 9 years of greatness? or even 11?

[Andrew]

It obviously should be more than five years. Perhaps they are referring to the console versions of the game since the importance of that platforms has increased beginning with NBA Live 2002's exclusive release on the consoles. If not, your guess is as good as mine.

[Srbija]

At first, I thought it was T-Mac, but then I realisedm, on his head there looks like an outline of a headband, so I'm going LeBron. Although I could be totally wrong.

[Scotty]

it is chauncey imo-the head shape is the same and shit-but could be T-mac, not Lebron or the other 2 hippies

[Cloudy]

I think T-Mac is the one, but basing on the silhoutte it looks a lot like LeBron...

[Maven]

But can Chauncey be the cover-boy? Isn't he the cover-boy of NBA Ballers: Phenom?

[Patr1ck]

Its definitely Chauncey Billups. Does the player in the silhouette look like he has hair?

Chauncey fits the jumpshot form almost perfectly(after you flip him so he's left handed.)
Lebron would be too easy, he wears a headband.

The reason I chose Chauncey, I looked at the other covers - two PG's, one SG, one SG/SF and one SF. I figured it will be another PG.

Its either him or T-mac.

[zmac]

I definitely think its Tmac, unless the pose on the cover isnt the actual cover.
I hope I win

[jon_doe]

if the pic is not filler art i think it's billups

[VlaDiv]

T-mac would be a welcome change from the 2003 draft class. Give the "old" ones like 10-year-man tmac their chance before the new school is the only thing left.

[Omer]

Its definitely Chauncey Billups. Does the player in the silhouette look like he has hair?

Chauncey fits the jumpshot form almost perfectly(after you flip him so he's left handed.)
Lebron would be too easy, he wears a headband.

The reason I chose Chauncey, I looked at the other covers - two PG's, one SG, one SG/SF and one SF. I figured it will be another PG.

Its either him or T-mac.

I don't think those background images represent the cover athlete.
For one, look at the image on the furthest left, the guy's shorts are really high. No one does that anymore.

I definitely think it's T-MAC.
I called that sheit a long time ago

[BHD]

it's got to be bron cause the silouete is wearing a headband ;] and only bron wears headband

[Anthony15]

They should just put all 5 of them and leave it like that!

[HtownBallaADL]

Its gon to be lebron, because on the background of the page, you can see lebron walkin up the court by the baseline......so, im goin with lebron

[Omer]

How can you tell the guy on the cover has a headband?
I think those are his ears.

[Omer]

Alright I did a side-by-side comparision of the T-Mac ingame picture and the silhouette on the website. Edited it in Photoshop real quick and what I found is a bit surprising. The real-life pic doesn't match up perfectly with the silhouette. However, as can be seen in NBA Live 06, the cover picture of Wade was not an in-game shot but actually done at a photo shoot. So, there is still a good chance it can be McGrady, because of the striking similarity between the in-game pic and the silhouette. The hand position is virtually the same and the stance is slightly off.

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[Fenix]

Wow, some are really overanalyzing things. Really, who the hell gives a damn who's on the cover? What, you wouldn't buy the game if Travis Diener was on the cover?

[Silas]

Hell no. I hate that man with an unrivaled passion. I'd pay money to not see him on the cover!