Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is the NBA 2K26 headliner, the cover guy, the MVP highlighted as the face of the sport.
But there’s a player on the cover of the game twice, and it’s not SGA.
Social media sleuths quickly deduced that Celtics center Al Horford appears to have been used for two of the background images around Gilgeous-Alexander.
Al Horford really made the 2K26 cover TWICE ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ https://t.co/bPpSbtCoVi pic.twitter.com/kLACO6gcRm
— CelticsGlobe (@PlayoffCeltics) July 8, 2025
That’s pretty wild.
Horford has a pretty distinctive arm look on the court. It almost certainly is him at both those angles.
How does that happen?
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This cover probably didn’t even need players around SGA, but in this case, why double down on Horford? Especially when another silhouette appears to be another Celtics center from this past season, Luke Kornet.
It feels like weird decision-making all around.
But at least Horford can say he was on the game’s cover during his career.
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