"I would have never believed they would apply girls into 2K MT the game," Powers told USA TODAY Sports. "Even though I feel like we should be in there." Dallas Wings guard Allisha Gray was playing 2K because Shaquille O'Neal graced the cover in 2005, and that she has difficulty believing that she's a part of it. "I never would have imagined seeing myself in a video game," Gray explained. Alexis Jones, who had been waived by the Atlanta Dream in August, has always enjoyed making her own player on 2K and tends to mold his game after her very own. This is going to be the first year she will not have to make herself at the picture of a man.

"This was my dream come true, I really don't know about everybody else," Jones said. "I understand that's one thing that I always dreamed of as a little woman -- to be in a 2K match. This chance to make yourself and build yourself as well as a girl is dope." The importance of building your own WNBA player can't be overstated, especially for young women who aspire to play basketball or are just fans of this sport. "I think it's astonishing that little girls can develop and actually play the game and understand that they can still have the same goals and accomplishments as men," Jones said. Powers echoed the sentiment and how important representation is for young women. She also wants to see more progression with women in the video game industry in general.

Powers streams and plays video games on Twitch and is now especially active in gaming because the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. She even hosted an all-female 2K tournament in October that contained a 30-minute opening musical group by Grammy Award winning performer DJ Jazzy Jeff. The stream garnered over 26,000 audiences. The 2019 WNBA champion says if she plays video games online she is sometimes satisfied with misogynistic messages from other users, and she expects that new modes like"The W" can make it easier for women playing with video games. "It sort of gives the younger girls a fantastic look and says,'Hey, it is alright to Cheap NBA 2K21 MT be a female, such as basketball and want to play,' since I know some of their male buddies might have a different opinion," Powers said. "But when you see the women from the game, it is like,'Hey, this is right.'"