Candace Parker dunked for the Los Angeles Sparks in a 77-63 win over the Indiana Fever last night, becoming just the second person to dunk in a WNBA game since the league's inaugural season of 1997. Teammate Lisa Leslie accomplished the feat, sort of, in 2002.
Excuse me while I'm sincere for a moment: Candace Parker is a great athlete, and while I prefer sexier women's sports like tennis, beach volleyball, and foxy boxing, I admire that the WNBA gives young women role models in sports who don't make headlines for their sex appeal. Still, it's kind of sad that a dunk is such a huge deal. Ordinarily I'd make some kind of joke about the drunk sorority girl bragging about peeing in a urinal, but I think the mainstream media has already been patronizing enough.
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Pffft, that’s nothing. I’ve seen plenty of gay men dunk.
//has watched the Nets play
Where ennui happens…
Sheeeesh. I get about as much rim as that 'junk' got, and I'm only 6'3/4''. It's call the Michael Jordan Jumpman Program. Damn Napervillians, personal trainers, half-assed yuppie bullshit! Kicked their asses in Wrestling.. Pussies.
If I wanted to watch non-menstruating freaks of nature exhibit superhuman feats of strength and athleticism I'd have watched the Olympic gymnastic trials.
Which I of course did. This boner doesn't lie.
i cant think of anything better to say than who gives a fuck? this isnt worth using my uniqe wit and humor to make a smart ass comment
my unique wit and humor isnt all that great anyway
this could have also been titled "Great Moments In Lesbian History"
WNBA … giving unathletic girls role models. But you are on point about the media's patronization of this dunk.
I can’t see the vid at work but I will admit this….
I think Candice Parker is hot.
No joke. Dead serious. Crazy hot. Can’t explain it.
Totally dungeon worthy, just watch out for the rafters, stretch!!!!
anthony parker doesn't see what the big deal is. (the raptors made the playoffs! canada still hates vince carter!)
I'd rather watch Oksana Andersson try to dunk. Naked. WIth me.
"GREAT MOMENTS IN WNBA HISTORY"
Was it the dancing with the little girls? Or the first ever use of the "word" "exuberating?" Otherwise, I don't get it.
Did Elaine Benes step in to do the victory dance?
Just get it over with and name Isaih Thomas League President.
I whole heartedly agree DrunkenEagle, +1
I'm more impressed when goaltending is called.
The only thing she should be dunking is my dirty clothes in a washing machine.
Basketball is the only sport where the women's game looks just like the men's.
Um, way to not discriminate. I guess.
The WNBA is what would happen if the NBA became segregated and the white guys were forced to make there own league, and it would still be called the WNBA.
"Exuberating"? Really?