Shaq was a man who was damn near unstoppable during his hey-day in the NBA, but when it comes to broadcasting and talking about basketball, he has certainly met his match.
During Tuesday’s Inside the NBA on TNT, Shaquille O’Neal thought it would be a grand idea to help level the playing field between the men’s game and women’s basketball by suggesting the WNBA lower the rim.
“I have a way to make it equal,” Shaq said to Parker. “So in beach volleyball, the women’s net is maybe a half-an-inch lower. You think if we lower the rim so y’all can dunk like we dunk that would give y’all more oomph than you already have?”
Candace Parker quickly shut that down.
Parker promised that women basketball players will be dunking soon. “My next child will be drop-step dunking. I promise you,” she said.
In 2004, Parker won the McDonald’s All-American Dunk Contest as she beat out the likes of J.R. Smith. She was the first woman to dunk in an NCAA tournament game and was the first woman to dunk twice in a college game.
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She also became the second woman in history to dunk during a WNBA regulation game.
