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WNBA Players Sound Off on Inequality
Brut America
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3/25/2025
Online trolls went wild when it was announced that the WNBA will be featured in the popular NBA 2K video game franchise. For players and coaches, this dismissal of the women's game is growing tiresome.
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Sometimes it's frustrating the level of disrespect there is towards our league.
00:07
It makes me feel like, I mean, we're just not, we're undervalued.
00:11
It's just now really getting exposed and it really isn't even fully exposed.
00:31
Media outlets don't normalize women's basketball on them.
00:35
It's 50 men's posts for every one women's post.
00:38
And, you know, if people were to continuously put us on there as much as they put men's,
00:43
then it would become normal and people wouldn't feel the need to go out of their way to hate it.
00:47
But people put less and less of it because of the amount of hate without realizing that's not helping the problem.
00:52
There's sports, I mean like bowling, or they're playing games that, like college games,
00:59
that you already know the score, you already know what happened.
01:02
While a WNBA game is going on, when they're disrespecting the WNBA, they're disrespecting me as a person too.
01:22
Some players getting injured, you know, having to play year-round with no break in between, that plays a part.
01:40
The reason we do that is so we can get a little bit of the money that we're not getting in the country.
01:45
The money could be better for the players in the WNBA. It just, I can't say it, I mean it just sucks.
02:07
Some of the greatest athletes of all time, not just greatest athletic women of all time.
02:12
Talk about what our U.S. National Soccer Team just accomplished.
02:16
We just want them to be appreciated as such, just like in the WNBA.
02:20
I want my son to know who Sheryl Swoopes is as much as he knows who Michael Jordan is.
02:25
For me that's important, and I think that needs to be important to all society.
02:29
I think we need to continue to push it and continue to kind of fight for the future of this league
02:36
and making sure that people continue to support it because when it comes down to it,
02:41
we have a lot of supporters and there are a lot of people that would be interested in women's basketball,
02:44
but it's not covered enough.
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