Comparing the games is laughable stuff. Women play a totally different game, smaller ball and closer 3-point line, nowhere near as physical. Average height of a female player is 5'6", male player is 6'6". Only 8 women have ever dunked the ball in NCAA women's basketball. I don't think it is an accident that the greatest women players have not made it to the NBA; they'd be destroyed on both ends of the floor every night. That's not a slam on them, just a physical reality. Strength and power count. Same reason there are gender and weight divisions in combat sports. It isn't fair to pit a lightweight against a heavyweight, or even match a woman against a man in the same division. Ann Wolfe was as imposing and terrifying a woman as ever set foot in the ring but put her in with a male boxer the same size and he kills her to death inside three rounds, as Mickey might say.
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