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6'6" Brittney Griner
Luckily she plays ball in Houston, because at 5'11", I would not want to D up against 15 year old, 6'6" Brittney Griner at a park in Los Angeles. My male chauvinist ego would not compute the beating I'd surely take and I'd undoubtedly get frustrated and throw an elbow which would hopefully reach her chin. Who am I kidding? I'd fake an injury and blame my 0-8 shooting and 4 turnovers on my old high school football injury.
Dunking with considerable ease, Brittney is an athletic phenomenon with talent and skill better than that of most of her male peers. Even the ease with which she performs a pull-up on the rim after her two handed dunk leads me to believe she could easily break my high school's female pull-up record of four (but I can do 23 -- let's see you beat that, Brittney!!!).
It was only a few years ago that Lisa Leslie became the first WNBA player to dunk in a game and it wasn't until last season that Candace Parker became the first college player to dunk in a game. Now, Griner has dunked twice in high school games and appears very ready to repeat these tasks in college and the pros, but not until after she continues exploiting her 70 inch wingspan while playing for the AAU Houston Hotshots .
Griner's size and athletic prowess is a clear indication to me that
female hoops are headed in the right direction and deserving of the
increased ESPNNews time they've recently been taking up. Hell, if things continue like this, I might not even need that old high school football injury excuse just to save face.
Apparently she was also the first woman to win a dunk contest in the McDonald's All-American and she did it amidst five male competitors.
