Kobe: “There are a couple of WNBA players who could play in the NBA right now”

[filial_piety]

No dis to women ball players...but they wouldn’t even make it as a walk on at D1 college...not even a D2 program and probably not most JUCO D3 programs

 

[A1aaa]

Interesting...

 

[Damnshow]

It's a bunch of guys in the league that are non factors at both ends and no that's not true for anybody. It's not pandering to suggest that the top women could find their way into the top 450 men.



Well we can't act like there are no intergender pickup games. Kobe has probably seen these chicks (well Diana certainly) hold their own against dudes. To your point, would it be crazy to suggest that the best 2 or 3 of those male players could play in the NBA?

There is no woman from WNBA that could handle a high endurance 82 game season against athletic men and have on top of that a positive performance on the court. There are two types of bench warmers in NBA: 1) veteran guys for locker room presence and 2) Young players who are here for potential that scouts seen, but they still can't figure it out. In both cases these are men that proved their worth against other male competition before signing with NBA. WIth women, they played professional basketball all their life against other women.

There are thousands and thousands of male basketball players all over the world who would destroy the very elite female competition if it came to a serious basketball and not some "having fun" pickup game.

 

[Art Barr]

wedgie's sis is the only woman all time i could have ever seen do it.
past that, I feel the rest of the women do not have the ability. Nor the higher up skill level to execute under that form of body weighted mass duress consistently. To take the physicality of men playing up. To in effect keep their spirit and manhood intact.

basketball and men's tennis on the highest skilled pro level.
I do not see women being able to compete at because of body weighted mass being employed consistently. In a manner where a woman can not consistently generate the same effect. Nor endure that effect consistently play to play.

this is why i ask why is there not women's basketball. With a lower rim. That makes more exciting sense to get over the issues that plague women playing on an oversized height based men's regulation basket.


art barr

I wanna see females with a ferocious dunk against one another.
lower the rim and make women's basketball.
not women playing on an oversized men's hoop.
even most men can not dunk on.

shyt i can't even dunk.
fukk i wanna watch a women game.
where i know for damn sure unless she six foot three barely.
I will get to see the most exciting play in basketball on their court.

I do not think that is fair.
women should at least get the same dream every guy has that one day they may be big enough to dunk. Not grow full height, be a great in a sport and never had the prospect to ever dunk.

even in the NBA I wanna say only like esrl boykins and muggs are the only five footer who could not dink.

spud, nate, Felder and new zeke all have spring to dunk and close on you in traffic.
that is extra ordinary. I do not think we will ever see a five foot eight woman dunk. So why not lower the damn rim.
so we could see that play and how women and even potentially girls.
will react to being able to prospectively grow tall enough.
to complete the greastest single play in sports.



art barr

 

[Art Barr]

No dis to women ball players...but they wouldn’t even make it as a walk on at D1 college...not even a D2 program and probably not most JUCO D3 programs

I do not think they make any women.
who would be cut throat enough to make it out of men's juco.

men's juco is literally the nikkaz who had it who ain't make it.

I could see no woman working their way up like that.
under those conditions in that male dominated wolf pack slash dog mentality based arena. Where the nikkas who had it and trying to make it all are at in large volume.

like i don't see somE WOMAN dealing with a jimmy butler in JUCO.


art barr

 

[Crude]

Kobe is just pandering trying to show the ladies how much he respects and reveres them; however, that's an over the top and not factual hot take.

I respect what any professional athlete does WNBA players included, but those ladies would get destroyed on athleticism.

 

[Damnshow]

wedgie's sis is the only woman all time i could have ever seen do it.
past that, I feel the rest of the women do not have the ability. Nor the higher up skill level to execute under that form of body weighted mass duress consistently. To take the physicality of men playing up. To in effect keep their spirit and manhood intact.

basketball and men's tennis on the highest skilled pro level.
I do not see women being able to compete at because of body weighted mass being employed consistently. In a manner where a woman can not consistently generate the same effect. Nor endure that effect consistently play to play.

this is why i ask why is there not women's basketball. With a lower rim. That makes more exciting sense to get over the issues that plague women playing on an oversized height based men's regulation basket.


art barr

I wanna see females with a ferocious dunk against one another.
lower the rim and make women's basketball.
not women playing on an oversized men's hoop.
even most men can not dunk on.

shyt i can't even dunk.
fukk i wanna watch a women game.
where i know for damn sure unless she six foot three barely.
I will get to see the most exciting play in basketball on their court.

I do not think that is fair.
women should at least get the same dream every guy has that one day they may be big enough to dunk. Not grow full height, be a great in a sport and never had the prospect to ever dunk.

even in the NBA I wanna say only like esrl boykins and muggs are the only five footer who could not dink.

spud, nate, Felder and new zeke all have spring to dunk and close on you in traffic.
that is extra ordinary. I do not think we will ever see a five foot eight woman dunk. So why not lower the damn rim.
so we could see that play and how women and even potentially girls.
will react to being able to prospectively grow tall enough.
to complete the greastest single play in sports.



art barr

Tennis and basketball on the highest level would be brutal for women to compete against men.

I hope no woman decides to play rugby on the highest level with men too. 80 minutes of high work endurance test with physical punishment and very little time to rest.

 

[filial_piety]

There is no woman from WNBA that could handle a high endurance 82 game season against athletic men and have on top of that a positive performance on the court. There are two types of bench warmers in NBA: 1) veteran guys for locker room presence and 2) Young players who are here for potential that scouts seen, but they still can't figure it out. In both cases these are men that proved their worth against other male competition before signing with NBA. WIth women, they played professional basketball all their life against other women.

There are thousands and thousands of male basketball players all over the world who would destroy the very elite female competition if it came to a serious basketball and not some "having fun" pickup game.

All true and let’s not forget that those who make the NBA are the top 1% of college recruits.

many of them look average compared to other top players—but make no mistake, they’d wipe the floor with just about anyone else

 

[Osmosis]

It's a bunch of guys in the league that are non factors at both ends and no that's not true for anybody. It's not pandering to suggest that the top women could find their way into the top 450 men.



Well we can't act like there are no intergender pickup games. Kobe has probably seen these chicks (well Diana certainly) hold their own against dudes. To your point, would it be crazy to suggest that the best 2 or 3 of those male players could play in the NBA?

You're really underselling how difficult it is to make it in the NBA. A guy like Lance Stephenson is playing in China right now before the age of 30, he's just one of hundreds/thousands of professional players across the world that are more talented, athletic and physically imposing than those women.

This isn't a knock on them but I don't think you really understand or appreciate how physically over-matched these women would be. Della Done is 6'5 and she's a big in the WNBA.. that's smaller than your average shooting guard. Diana Taurasi and Maya Moore are 6'0 but don't have the requisite athleticism to make it in the NBA.. Shane Larkin, for example, is the same height as them with way more athleticism and he's playing in the Euroleague.

 

[Real]

Kobe....u da gawd. But. stop it. lol

 

[feelosofer]

That is a HOT TAKE coming from Kobe. I think he's trying to give them some free marketing.

 

[Mr Hate Coffee]

Eh idk and I feel a lot of people in this thread are exaggerating his point. Could all WNBA players play in the NBA? No. Would they be an all-star in the NBA? No. Could a woman's team compete with the men? No. Could a select few survive on an NBA team? Possibly. A player with a handle and a wet shot that is food on defense could survive. I mean that basically describes Quinn Cook.

What WNBA player is getting their shot off against even the most trash NBA defender at her position? People are focusing too much on the female ballers’s defense and ignoring the fact that she wouldn’t be able to do anything on offense either.

 

[Mr Hate Coffee]

The reigning, defending NBA World Champions successfully used a defense not seen outside of middle school/junior varsity on their way to said NBA title.

If a basketball team can successfully employ middle school tactics on the grandest stage in the highest level of its sport ... then in theory, I choose to believe that the best women's player(s) on the planet today -- who may or may not be more technically sound at the sport given they are at a physical/athletic disadvantage -- can score/contribute in today's version of the men's game.

kinda comparison is this?

 

[MN Fats]

What WNBA player is getting their shot off against even the most trash NBA defender at her position? People are focusing too much on the female ballers’s defense and ignoring the fact that she wouldn’t be able to do anything on offense either.

Sure they would....just stand in the corner like pj tucker.

 

[Hoodoo Child]