This is an interesting effort to steal some attention away from EA’s basketball announcement, 2K games has announced that its upcoming NBA 2k11 will feature basketball legend Michael Jordan on the cover.

Jason Argent, VP of marketing for 2K Games, confirmed something that had only been a rumor until today:

We’ve made a lot of progress over the past 10 years, but we know we have the best NBA video game ever made here. So we thought to ourselves how can we embody that and there was only one person on that list who we wanted to have and that was Michael Jordan. Actually getting this done is the most ridiculous win of all-time.

The game is due out on October 5th and has been confirmed for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. We will give you more information as it becomes available.