On what planet would anybody choose Dwyane Wade over Dirk Nowitzki?

DALLAS - On what planet would anybody choose Dwyane Wade over Dirk Nowitzki? Only, in a video game planet, I guess.

NBA 2K20 Legend Edition features Wade over the Dallas Mavericks legend Dirk Nowitzki, and 2K senior producer Erick Boenisch is attempting to explain why they decided to choose D-Wade over Dirk for the cover of the NBA 2K20 Legend Edition.

Per SubReal of AltChar, Boenisch conceded that the company's reasoning behind the selection of the infamously whiny Wade wasn’t that “great.”

“There wasn’t like a really great reason,'' he said. "You got to pick someone, right? Dwyane Wade is a very beloved player – not that Dirk isn’t, because everyone loves Dirk. 21 years, same team? That’s incredible. No one’s done that.

"(But) Wade is just an iconic player. He played with Shaq, who is someone we’ve worked with; he played with Kobe, who’s someone we’ve worked with. He’s a Hall of Famer. So, you know, the time will come for everybody.”

I have no idea why the fact that Wade played on the same team with Shaq, or why the fact that Shaq played with Kobe, would have any influence on this sort of decision. I'm not a video game guy, but to me, I assume it's like choosing an athlete to grace the cover of a magazine -- only in this case, the magazine isn't weekly or monthly ... it only comes out once a year, making the cover guy decision all the more important.

There is apparently a movement among NBA 2K20 Legend edition fans to request the release of an alternative cover featuring Nowitzki. There might even be logic in putting both of them on the cover, in as much as they retired at the same time.

Or, with Boenisch noting that Nowitzki might get a turn in the future, maybe we should just let Wade have his beloved spotlight ... and worry about this at the same level that Dirk likely worries about it. Which is to say, not at all.