Women's Hoops Blog

Inane commentary on a game that deserves far better


Tuesday, July 18, 2006

From the Sports Guy's mailbag:
I was flipping channels the other night when I stumbled upon the WNBA All-Star Game. As soon as my brain processed what it was, I desperately went to change the channel. But right before I hit Channel Up, I saw some short chick drive the lane and attempt to dunk, only to come up about two feet short and ricochet the ball off the BOTTOM of the rim.
Another idiot misinterprets Taurasi. Wilbon and Kornheiser made the same mistake on PTI the day after the ASG.

Memo to the Sports Guy wannabe nation : Taurasi knows she can't dunk. She knows she can't even come close to dunking. The bottom of the rim was probably the closest she's ever been.

Her "dunk attempt" was a joke — a complicated, multilayered, subversive joke — making fun of herself (for being a slow unjumpy white girl), making fun of women dunking, making fun of the desperate hype about women dunking, making fun of the too-earnest and too-serious WNBA, making fun of the silliness of All-Star Games.

You just didn't get the joke, so now it's making fun of you too.

(P.S.: fuck off.)