Chicago Sky star Candace Parker has become accustomed to schooling Shaquille O’Neal during TNT’s NBA Postgame Show, and Tuesday was no different.
Like the NBA — and all competitive basketball beyond junior high school — the WNBA plays on a regulation, 10-foot basket. Yet, Shaq zeroed in on the rim height during Tuesday night’s broadcast and proposed a not-so-original idea of lowering WNBA rims so the players could dunk more and throw down two-handers.
Shaq proposed the idea as a way to “make it equal,” and Parker, who had probably heard that suggestion several times before, waited little time to shut it down.
Candace Parker wasn't into Shaq's suggestion that the WNBA should lower the rim so that players could dunk "It's coming…My next child will be drop step dunking" pic.twitter.com/5tVkRJ3Nb4
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Parker said:
“No … Lailaa, she’s into dance, but my next child will be drop-step dunking. I promise you.”
Though Shaq went into the suggestion like it was something that hadn’t been tossed around already, Elena Delle Donne actually faced backlash from the WNBA community when she spoke favorably of the idea in 2016.
But really, Shaq doesn’t need to look for ways to change or cheapen the WNBA. Supporting the game as it is would go a long way.
