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NBA2K's Gender Gap with Shwetha Surendran | THE STORIES

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🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ ? minutes

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Former Spinsters producer Shwetha Surendran has always been curious about NBA2k because of its loyal following. When Candace Parker was put on the cover in 2K22, another thing began to stick out: The inequities between the NBA and WNBA sides. Here's RJ's Youtube tutorial on how to get the WNBA and NBA rosters in the same game mode Presented by @doterra doterra.com/spinsters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Oh, are you not an Oxford comma er?

0:05.2

Shway.

0:07.7

I thought you were an ally.

0:10.2

I thought you were a comrade.

0:15.7

Welcome to spinsters, a podcast where if we had the choice, we would put each other on a 2K cover, which makes lots of sense because we have never played 2K.

0:26.4

Anyway, today we have an episode that is brought to us by Shwatha Sarendrin.

0:31.8

She used to work for us.

0:33.4

Now she is a fellow for ESPN doing this amazing dream job. We love you, Shui. Go kill it.

0:42.9

When Shui was on the Spencer's team, she brought so much joy to every meeting, constantly energy.

0:50.5

She was interested in so many different things, took us down so many different paths. We absolutely

0:54.9

loved working with her. You can follow her at username Shway. Shway is S-H-W-E. And she's going to be

1:03.2

talking about inequities in NBA 2K, which, as you can tell, is something me and Jordan did not know a

1:09.6

ton about. Yes. and this is really about the

1:14.1

candace parker cover that came out on the last edition which was so amazing to see as she was

1:21.3

the first woman on the cover but this new edition is going to have diana tarrasi and Sue Bird on a limited edition cover as well.

1:30.8

So hopefully we're trending in the right direction.

1:33.8

And they were given a lot of applause for putting them on the special edition cover.

1:36.8

Remember, the main cover was Debooker.

1:39.1

But we're getting there.

1:40.5

We're getting there.

1:41.2

We need a main cover.

1:42.4

Slowly but surely.

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