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Basketball Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal came up with a antithetic mode for the WNBA to bring successful viewers, and it has thing to bash with changing immoderate of the on-court regulations.
O’Neal appeared connected Chicago Sky guardant Angel Reese’s podcast, "Unapologetically Angel," connected Thursday. He floated the solution arsenic a mode to besides summation subordinate salaries. He instantly couched earlier helium got into it, saying "nobody is going to similar my solution."
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Shaquille O'Neal looks connected earlier the crippled betwixt the Boston Celtics and the Dallas Mavericks successful crippled 1 of the 2024 NBA Finals astatine TD Garden successful Boston connected June 6, 2024. (David Butler II-USA TODAY Sports)
"So, fto maine explicate wherefore I came up with this solution first," the Los Angeles Lakers fable said. "In women’s formation volleyball, let’s conscionable accidental the nett is 10 (feet), for women it’s little conscionable a small bit. I’m not saying lowering it to 9.5, conscionable 9.9."
He added that the large quality betwixt the NBA and WNBA is the magnitude of dunking. Though, successful the WNBA game, players similar Lisa Leslie, Candace Parker, Brittney Griner and Jonquel Jones person each dunked successful a game.
"Watch, we got shooters, y’all got shooters, ohio guys got immoderate handles, girls got immoderate handles, ohio we got this, we got that, we got s--- talkers, we got brawls, the lone happening that’s missing is the dunk.
Phoenix Mercury halfway Brittney Griner, #42, dunks the shot against the Chicago Sky during crippled 2 of the WNBA Finals astatine US Airways Center successful Phoenix connected Sept. 9, 2014. (Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports)
"Bro, archetypal of all, I similar however y’all are starting to get into fashion. Bro, a beauteous miss dunking connected the rim, I’m watching that each day."
Reese pushed back, saying she did not judge women dunking was going to marque overmuch of a quality and hated "when men accidental that."
O’Neal said radical would tune successful to ticker things they person ne'er seen earlier and underscored the constituent of radical watching Caitlin Clark due to the fact that cipher tin sprout 3-pointers from the logo astatine volition similar she can.
Chicago Sky guardant Angel Reese, #5, looks to walk the shot against the Las Vegas Aces during the archetypal fractional astatine Wintrust Arena successful Chicago connected Aug. 25, 2024. (Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports)
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"I consciousness similar it inactive wouldn’t beryllium bully enough, it’s ne'er bully enough," Reese said. "People ever disrespect women regardless; they are ever going to not springiness america the aforesaid worth arsenic a man. So I don’t deliberation that."
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