[Eric Johnson]

Mark Cuban has been talking about drafting Brittney Griner for the Dallas Mavericks

http://espn.go.com/dallas/nba/story/_/id/9127664/mark-cuban-give-brittney-griner-opportunity-dallas-mavericks

[Joe Blow]

NO CHANCE

Cuban only said it to generate some publicity for his struggling team. Griner dominates women’s basketball where she is by far the tallest and most athletic player on the court. But put her down low with someone like Dwight Howard and he would eat her alive. She’d foul out in less than 5 minutes and when she tried a shot he’d swat them into the upper level of the arena.

She is great at her sport but to think she could physically compete with Men for 35+ minutes a night for 80 games a year is laughable. Baylor was great her 4 years there but I can think of at least 5 High School Boys Varsity teams in California who would beat Baylor by 30+ and shut down Griner.

Nice “pub” for Cubes – but nothing more. If he really thinks she can play he should draft her, put her on the court for a REAL NBA Game and 5 minutes later realize what a massive mistake he made and be forced to cut her for her own safety.

IF any female is going to play in the NBA it would have to be someone as a Guard where ball handling skills are required and height and pounding down low is not.

[musclelover2002]

I agree, this is just for hype. She is a big girl, playing a center position against much smaller women and she uses a smaller ball. She is not going to be able to be a post player, and given her play-type, she will be too undersized to do that in mens NCAA basketball, let alone the NBA. She I don’t think would even be able to play with some high school boys. Check out Andrew Wiggins for example, and he is shorter than her.

I used to play basketball with a girl during summer courses during college. She was 6’5″ to my 6’2″. Not that much taller than me but she was and had a longer reach. She played D1 basketball and I got cut from my high school team ( I was a better martial artists anyways ;)). It would be close when we played horse or around the world, but she never beat me when we played one on one. She could not handle the physical difference is all.

But this brings up and interesting point though. We are always told about gender equality and how women should be able to play in mens programs. If it was truly equality, then would it not go both ways? At least that’s what we are taught in math class.

[Trash Boat]

lol. Would like to see that.

Hayley Wickenheiser played ice hockey in Finland in men team for a while, but that was in third division where the players are not that good. When the team got into a higher division Hayley got dropped out because she was too much physically inferior. How she would have done in NHL? Well she very likely wouldn’t been able to finish her first shift.

Also the Finnish women ice hockey team played and exhibition match against 15 year old boys — and lost.
and to add to that they had one player more throughout the game. And the boys weren’t allowed to body check.

[Joe Blow]

I do agree with what some have said about the chances of a Woman having any shot at the NBA……..it would have to be a Guard and Guard ONLY

The Guard wouldn’t be involved in as many “physical” matchups as someone playing spots 3-5 (especially 4 and 5). The name someone brought up for a current Women’s player is: Notre Dame’s Skylar Diggins.

I could see that before I saw Griner playing. And Diggins is HOT! I’ve seen pix of her all “dolled up” and I actually thinks she looks better on the court with less makeup than all styled up with lots of it. She will be playing Sunday vs UConn on ESPN so all can see she is a damn attractive woman!

[Ataski]

Well. We have had a Spud Webb, and he wasn’t the biggest strongest guy ever.

:silly:

Shane Battier of the Miami Heat has weighed in:

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/9134616/shane-battier-miami-heat-says-nba-female-player-our-lifetime

[philip]

Cuban shouldn’t get Griner’s hopes up like that when he knows the NBA won’t allow that.

[Joe Blow]

Cuban shouldn’t get Griner’s hopes up like that when he knows the NBA won’t allow that.

Unless you know something we don’t IF Cuban wants to draft her he most definitely can. If this was “way back when” when there were something like 5+ Rounds in the Draft I can guarantee you someone would use a 4th-5th Round pick on her but not now

Battier: One of the nicest/classiest guys out there – even though he went to Duke. But unless Battier plans on living another 150 years – not gonna happen in our lifetime and probably not our kids or even their kids.

[BlackKusanagi]

Well… despite what happened. At 6′ 8″, while shes Lebron’s height, she has bigger hands and a wider wingspan.

…..

But he has 40 lbs on her.

While it would be nice to see her there, it wouldn’t work out too well.

[Joe Blow]

Well… despite what happened. At 6′ 8″, while shes Lebron’s height, she has bigger hands and a wider wingspan.

But he has 40 lbs on her.

While it would be nice to see her there, it wouldn’t work out too well.

In reality it is probably more like 50+ in weight. And along the lines of stuff discussed here – while LBJ might “only” be 40-50 pound more than Griner we all know when it comes to strength he is far more dominant in that area. He backs down most everyone in the NBA who are relatively close to him in weight and somewhat in height so if he does that to Men imagine how much he’d abuse her on the court

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